My move to HostGator was partly due to the fact that on my old host this blog got hacked. And judging by the impact, I suspect this was a server-side security breach because my DB was intact. Since then I’ve spent some time to secure my WP instance as much as I could given the
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From Sunday, April 25th, this blog is hosted by HostGator.com due to some problems I have had with my hosting provider from Romania. Therefore I am sorry for the hiccups and downtimes you might have experienced that day and until Monday evening EET (UTC-2). From now on the downloads available from my Codebin (codebin.cotescu.com) are
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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:

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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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: Now configuring Eclipse to use the instance of Tomcat you previously installed should be straightforward.
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UPDATE 4: Version 2.4 added support for printer models LBP6000 and LBP6018 and provides a better dependency handling. Please test it on older Ubuntu versions as it works perfectly on Ubuntu 11.04. UPDATE 3: Version 2.3 added support for Ubuntu 11.04. UPDATE 2: Due to popular demand version 2.2 now supports Ubuntu 10.10. Use the
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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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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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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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