This tip will hopefully speed up your Firefox 3 by optimizing it’s database.
Firefox stores your browsing data using SQLite – self contained, small footprint database.
Having database store your browsing data has one drawback, you have to optimize the database from time to time to get rid of old, deleted data, re-index the columns etc.
Otherwise you [...]
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Ubuntu One coming to Windows
At PyCon 2010, Ubuntu One development team will focus on helping Ubuntu users who also use a Windows box. This is great news!
Source.
Skype for Linux 2.1 beta2
Skype just released Skype for Linux 2.1 beta2 aka “Talking Screens”.
Chats are faster, UI supports switching styles on the fly, and audio is a lot better than before. You can download it here.
What’s new in this version:
– Screen sharing
– Quote a message in chat
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avast! Version 5.0
Avast just released version 5.0 of their product. You will notice the new user interface and the new scanning engine.
Free Antivirus 5.0 includes a spyware detection engine to protect you from identity theft as well as viruses.
Read more about this release here.
Google Wave
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 video [...]
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.
Songbird: glibc 2.8 detects invalid free() pointer
Sometimes I use Songbird to listen to my music files or internet radio. On some systems running Ubuntu 8.10 it does not run. The error is a known bug reported by some people.
The resolution is simple. Just remove libvisual-0.4-plugins.
sudo apt-get purge libvisual-0.4-plugins
Enjoy your music!
Install Django on Ubuntu 8.10
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
To install it on your Ubuntu, follow the next steps:
1. Install python (if you have it installed, skip this step)
sudo apt-get install python
2. Download the tarball from the Django Project website. You can download this file to your home directory.
cd
wget http://www.djangoproject.com/download/1.0.2/tarball/
tar [...]
COOoder
This extension provides syntax highlighting features for OpenOffice.org. COOoder will be usefull for developers wanting to present code fragments in writer documents.
More info here: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/coooder.
Slow response on connecting to ProFTPD server (slow login)
When you experience slow connection responses (login takes a long time), try disabling reverse dns lookups.
Edit “/etc/proftpd.conf” and change directive:
UseReverseDNS on
into
UseReverseDNS off
If this doesn’t work out try adding or changing the directive (must be turned off):
IdentLookups off
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