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Google Desktop, Google Chrome and Google Gadgets in Ubuntu

Posted on August 1st, 2009 at 15:39.

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Looking to see if Google Desktop is now available for Linux I have discovered some Google goodies. Not only that they have ported this nice desktop companion software to Linux, they have also included in their repositories Google Gadgets (using both GTK and Qt, but it is a little buggy as some of the widgets [...]

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VirtualBox USB support

Posted on July 31st, 2009 at 21:44.

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Recently I became a fan of VirtualBox, the virtualization platform from Sun Microsystems. It’s robust, it has an extremely small memory foot-print comparing it to other similar virtual managers and it has some great features. You can find more about it on its homepage. Yesterday I have updated VirtualBox from 2.2.4 to 3.1. Unfortunately, the [...]

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Resolving vertically flipped images from webcams in Ubuntu

Posted on July 31st, 2009 at 1:53.

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UPDATE 2: I strongly recommend against using this patch any more and relaying on the solution provided by UPDATE 1. UPDATE 1: Please check the solution from here as it represents the correct approach for fixing this problem in Ubuntu (all releases). Also, the patch from this post doesn’t work for the kernel included in [...]

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Lazy programmers do…

Posted on July 30th, 2009 at 16:21.

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Scripts to avoid clicking in three places once they start their computer: #!/bin/bash firefox mail.cotescu.com & thunderbird & pidgin & sleep 5s purple-remote "setstatus?status=available&message=http://radu.cotescu.com" exit 0 This starts those three programs in the background once I log in provided that I add this script in System – Preferences – Startup Applications in Ubuntu.

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How to fix cursor jumping in Ubuntu

Posted on July 5th, 2009 at 12:59.

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Since I installed Ubuntu on my laptop (an Asus X55sv with Intel Core 2 Duo T7500) a few months ago, I still faced one bug I was ashamed to write about because I wasn’t sure if it was a bug or just my fingers made the strange thing happen from time to time. I am [...]

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How to install Ubuntu Desktop Edition

Posted on June 24th, 2009 at 23:00.

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This is tutorial number 1 in the series of Linux tutorials for Windows users: How to install Ubuntu Desktop Edition. Even if the process itself is pretty simple (there are only some clicks to be made and a form to complete), there are some things that need to be made clear for the new user [...]

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Bash fun

Posted on June 15th, 2009 at 22:46.

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Linux is awesome. I knew that! When you are completely bored and you have access to a terminal (and you are in the sudo-ers group) you can do this: radu@enterprise:~$ sudo apt-get install cowsay Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done Suggested packages: filters The following NEW packages will be installed: [...]

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How to install VMware Server 2.0.1 on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

Posted on May 16th, 2009 at 11:48.

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I wrote a small script that will help you install VMware Server 2.0.1 (build 156745) on Ubuntu 9.04 and later without any efforts. The install script needs a patch file for this VMWare Server version that is automatically downloaded from my server.

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Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope pros and cons

Posted on April 29th, 2009 at 18:18.

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I am currently running Ubuntu 9.04 on two machines (as the single OS on my personal laptop and dual boot with Windows on my work desktop) and I will soon (by Sunday tops) have it installed on a third (my home desktop). This is probably my largest Ubuntu deployment, if I can call it like [...]

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