The guys behind the Google Maps are working on a tool for communication and collaboration on the web. It’s called Google Wave and it’s planned for release later this year. The nice thing is that will be open source’d and you can allready use their API to start building your stuff. You can watch the [...]
Archive for May 2009
Android applications running on Ubuntu
Canonical will develop an environment wich will allow Andoid applications to run on Ubuntu. Source. Also, HP considers dropping Windows for Android in netbooks. Source.
Random crash of the X server in Jaunty
I experienced a lot of random X server crashes using the proprietary driver for the NVIDIA graphic card on my Thinkpad T61 running Ubuntu 9.04 x86 with Compiz activated. I managed to fix the problem by installing the lastest NVIDIA driver. I wrote a little script to automate the process and save time. I recommend [...]
Custom usplash resolution in Ubuntu
Recently I made a clean install of Ubuntu 9.04 on my Thinkpad T61. I configured the figerprint, the accelerometer is reporting correct values. I did not like the default resolution at boot. So I created a custom usplash.conf file: sudo joe /etc/usplash.conf I should contain these lines: xres=1680 yres=1050 The next step was to update [...]
Auto update for Debian/Ubuntu
I use the following script to automatically update my Ubuntu box. I don’t recommend using this on your servers! #!/bin/bash ################################################# ## ## ## auto-update.sh v1.0 ## ## Use this script to set up automatic updates ## ## on your debian/ubuntu box. ## ## ## ################################################# ## Creating /usr/bin/auto-update.sh file sudo touch /usr/bin/auto-update.sh [...]
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