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Adobe Reader in Ubuntu

Posted on November 10th, 2009 at 22:41.

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For those of you who want to install Adobe Reader in Ubuntu, there are two solutions available: install it using the repositories or download the application from Adobe. If you’ve had problems opening PDF files in Firefox after you’ve installed Adobe Reader you will also find how to fix them.

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Flipped images from your webcam in Ubuntu?

Posted on November 5th, 2009 at 18:07.

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Some of you (and me also) have experienced problems with certain laptop webcams on Ubuntu because some of them were mounted upside down. I have posted a solution for fixing this on the blog, but apparently it’s not quite the best way to obtain the desired results because it involves patching the kernel. And since [...]

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How to install VMware Server 2.0.x on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

Posted on October 30th, 2009 at 4:13.

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UPDATE 2: The script has been updated to work with kernels 2.6.32 too. Please post your comments regarding kernel 2.6.32 here. UPDATE: The script which is now used for this operation has been updated to support Fedora and openSUSE too. Also the patch used is the one made by Ramon de Carvalho Valle, not the [...]

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How to install VMware Server 2.0.2 on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

Posted on October 28th, 2009 at 17:36.

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The same script I wrote in order to help users install VMware Server 2.0.1 (build 156745) on Ubuntu 9.04 can be used for the latest release from VMware: VMware Server 2.0.2 (build 203138). In order to install the server, just follow these instructions: Download your copy of VMware Server (.gz archive) and obtain your license [...]

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Enabling arrow keys in VMware Server 2.0.1

Posted on October 23rd, 2009 at 12:57.

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While running Ubuntu 9.10 RC in a virtual machine from a VMware Server instance, I remembered about the arrow keys and others that didn’t work quite well in the VMware Server’s console. The fix is pretty simple: edit the /etc/vmware/config file or the /etc/vmware-server-console/config file and add the following entry at the end: xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = [...]

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Happy Birthday, Ubuntu!

Posted on October 20th, 2009 at 10:22.

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Today Ubuntu celebrates its 5th birthday. And it only took them 1 year, until 2005, to become the first shought-after Linux distributuion according to DistroWatch.com. The releases until now were: Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) – October 20 2004 Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) – April 8 2005 Ubuntu 5.10 (BreezyBadger) – October 12 2005 Ubuntu 6.06 [...]

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Mark Shuttleworth interview

Posted on October 19th, 2009 at 14:01.

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Golem.de has published a two part interview with Mark Shuttleworth (Wikipedia entry, his blog), the founder of Canonical Ltd., the company that is behind Ubuntu. Some of the questions he tried to answer were: Where do you see the Linux desktop today? Does MacOS X offer a better user experience than Linux? Does KDE do [...]

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Ubuntu’s 9.10 improvements

Posted on October 11th, 2009 at 14:12.

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Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, is just about the corner, with its programmed launch on October 29th. This release is a special one, preparing the way for the next LTS which is due to appear the next April (Lucid Lynx, 10.04). Lots and lots of features and improvements have been added, the main goal being [...]

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Linux Starter Kit – Ubuntu 9.04

Posted on September 20th, 2009 at 20:29.

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From the middle of July I have started a nice collaboration with OXY PRESS, the company responsible for the Linux Identity magazine series. They have asked me to write some articles for the Linux Starter Kit magazine, regarding Ubuntu 9.04 which I gladly did. I was happy to be able to share my experience with [...]

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Windows 7 review from a Linux user

Posted on September 8th, 2009 at 18:23.

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Starting with August 21st I have installed Windows 7 on my home desktop, right after installing Ubuntu 9.04 with custom packages so that I could obtain the maximum hard disk performance gain for Linux. Being a student at an Automatic Control and Computers Faculty has its advantages, one of them being the MSDN AA membership [...]

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Python and Pidgin’s status on Ubuntu (Linux)

Posted on August 26th, 2009 at 18:01.

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If you remember Fortune and Pidgin’s status on Ubuntu (Linux), Tudor has found a better solution to accomplish this using Python. I did argue with him a bit regarding the number of requests made (you can see that in the comments on his blog post) but finally I would agree that his solution was better [...]

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How to fix Adobe AIR’s installation on Ubuntu 9.04

Posted on August 16th, 2009 at 23:24.

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I just want to start this article by emphasizing that I am not a fan of Adobe’s new products like Adobe AIR or Flex. They eat two buckets of RAM for some shiny effects that really don’t deserve this kind of resources. The explanation is rather simple: being new products, they are still full of [...]

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Fortune and Pidgin’s status on Ubuntu (Linux)

Posted on August 7th, 2009 at 18:17.

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Following the post about my laziness and Tudor’s comment from here, I went on to study how fortune works and I have found a way to use it to change your status in Pidgin using posts from your WordPress blog. It’s quite neat if you think and also this trick could bring you more traffic [...]

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