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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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.
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.
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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These two pictures will go epic: Linus has a great sense of humor. Brilliant! Can you imagine Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer doing a similar thing? via Chris, Patrick
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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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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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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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If you had time to read my blog before you would notice that I mostly write about technical stuff. Since Google indexes my pages, most of the users that arrive here are more or less above average when it comes to computers. Using the Analytics tool provided by Google, I get the following data when [...]
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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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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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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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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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nick said:
Oh and so you know it’s a working LBP3000 on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) more»
nick said:
OMG. Mate you’re a legend. I’ve spent countless hours/days/years trying to get this LBP3000 to work and your script does... more»
Rutger said:
Fix worked. Thanks! My system info: OpenSuse 11.3 with kernel 2.6.34-12-pae. more»
gabriele vidali said:
testing it on maverick but got problems with cndrvcups-common and cupsys more»
neverstock said:
If you upgrade yahoo tool bar it will fix the no right click problem more»
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