Launchpad is now open source. Canonical public announcement is here: http://blog.canonical.com/?p=192 The Canonical launchpad developers will be on IRC in #launchpad-dev on irc.freenode.net. For real time development discussion, that’s the place to go; for usage questions, #launchpad is still the channel, as before. The development wiki is dev.launchpad.net. Right now, only Canonical people can edit [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
How to write a linux virus
After reading an interesting article about linux “viruses” (the comments are interersing, too), I decided to raise the alarm about the source of many security related issues in today’s computers: the user. The author talks about the many ways to compromise a linux box, even if you are not root. I will not get into [...]
Ctrl+Alt+Del to open System Monitor in Ubuntu
If you want to enable Ctrl+Alt+Del to open System Monitor you have to do this: Go to System->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts and search for “Logout” action (that is under Desktop actions) and you will see that Ctrl+Alt+Del combination is associated to Logout shortcut. You have to click on that shortcut and press Backspace if you want to [...]
Ubuntu Forums Menu
Just found about this add-on: Ubuntu Forums Menu. The extension adds additional navigation menu for Ubuntu Forums via main-menu and context to Firefox. Get it from here.
Ubuntu brainstorm launched!
Ubuntu now has its own Brainstorm website where people can add their ideas and vote for their favorites. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/
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