Where has Java gone from Lucid?

Posted on April 22nd, 2010 at 20:11.

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Apparently the Java packages coming from Sun (or Oracle for the matter) have been moved to the Partner repositories starting with the 10.04 release of Ubuntu, codenamed Lucid Lynx. The affected packages are:

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OpenX Ad Server: Beginner’s Guide

Posted on April 14th, 2010 at 0:10.

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UPDATE: You can find the review here. Recently I’ve been contacted by Packt Publishing to review one of the books they published last month: OpenX Ad Server: Beginner’s Guide, by Murat Yilmaz. The book focuses on teaching web site administrators how to use and configure OpenX Ad Server, the largest publisher-side ad server in the [...]

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How to configure Tomcat 6 in Ubuntu for Eclipse

Posted on March 27th, 2010 at 19:11.

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If you are an Ubuntu user and a Java developer there’s a great chance that you’d want at some point to develop web applications using Eclipse and Tomcat. The easiest way to install Tomcat is by using the package manager: sudo apt-get install tomcat6 tomcat6-* Now configuring Eclipse to use the instance of Tomcat you [...]

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How to install Canon LBP printers in Ubuntu

Posted on March 20th, 2010 at 11:06.

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UPDATE 1: The currently used CAPT driver since version 2.0 is 2.00 which adds support for Canon LBP6300dn and Canon LBP9100Cdn. Also a new script has been added to the archive to handle the driver uninstall process. After I bought Riker , when it came to installing Ubuntu I had two options: either install the i386 [...]

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Geeks and their computers

Posted on March 16th, 2010 at 23:48.

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13 days ago I’ve bought another computer, thus reaching to number 3. My home network architecture is pretty simple: As you might have noticed, my computers are named after Star Trek: The Next Generation characters. Let me describe them in their chronological order. Picard is my former desktop which is now used primarily by my [...]

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Linux Identity Office – OpenOffice.org 3.2

Posted on March 16th, 2010 at 17:41.

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Launched almost one month ago, OpenOffice.org 3.2 will be available by default in Ubuntu in the 10.04 release. Of course, if you are eager to put your hands on it faster, you can check this article I wrote a few weeks ago. Anyway, this post is about the latest issue of Linux Identity Office, a [...]

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Apple, tablets and the rest of the world

Posted on March 11th, 2010 at 16:29.

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I’ve promised to myself a few weeks ago that I wouldn’t talk about Apple’s iPad because a lot of bytes have been wasted for this subject by so many others (what about the ink levels?!). Although the subject isn’t new any more, the online journalists still talk and write about it like it’s the only [...]

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Chat on Facebook from Pidgin

Posted on March 5th, 2010 at 15:06.

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After Facebook announced its XMPP chat protocol support I decided to give it a try and use it since I already used Pidgin as my instant messaging client. The settings are simple but somehow the average user finds them after some tedious Google searches. Here are the steps you should follow for setting up Facebook’s [...]

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How to install VMware Server on 2.6.32 kernels

Posted on February 21st, 2010 at 0:41.

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Recently I have updated the script and the patch used for installing VMware Server on the 2.6.30 and 2.6.31 kernels to include support for the 2.6.32 release as well. Also I have modified the script so that now the VSOCK module compiles and loads perfectly into the running kernel. All the needed instructions can be [...]

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How to install OpenOffice.org 3.2 on Ubuntu

Posted on February 3rd, 2010 at 0:43.

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Since I’m against upgrading my systems to Ubuntu 9.10, when it comes to the OpenOffice.org office suite I am stuck with the 3.0 version from Jaunty’s repositories. Therefore, if I want to put my hands on a newer release of OpenOffice the only way to do this is to use the packages provided by Oracle [...]

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How to set Nautilus as the default FTP handler in Linux

Posted on January 22nd, 2010 at 18:03.

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After I had installed Firefox 3.6 on my Ubuntu machines I noticed that when I would want to open the FTP bookmarks saved in Nautilus those targets would open in tabs from Firefox. The problem with this approach was that I couldn’t edit files (create, update, delete) the way I could with Nautilus. After some [...]

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Save power when using your PC with MicroMiser

Posted on January 20th, 2010 at 23:52.

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Some of you might know that the CPUs available these days adjust their frequency according to your computing needs, allowing you to save power by not using the maximum capacity of your processor if there isn’t such a need. Of course, this happens only when your operating system includes the software needed to access this [...]

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How to install VMware Server on 2.6.31 kernels

Posted on January 19th, 2010 at 1:20.

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UPDATE: The script should also work with 2.6.32 kernels from version 1.2. Seeing the success I have encountered with the blog post about installing VMware Server on Ubuntu Karmic Koala and helped by Ramon de Carvalho Valle with a better patch regarding the installation of the virtualization server on the newer kernels found in three [...]

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