The “sudo make me a sandwich” comic by Randall Munroe aka xkcd.com made a couple of appearances on the Linux blogsphere…
22. May 2009
by Christoph
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Category Archives: Ubuntu
22. May 2009
by Christoph
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Network (forcedeth) won’t start after kernel 2.6.29 shut the system off
A mean bug/phenomenon took an hour of free time from me and create some headache… I tried to use partimage to make a backup of a hard disk I salvaged from an old computer. Since there is no package for … Continue reading
16. May 2009
by Christoph
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Rearrange PDF documents with PDF-Shuffler
A couple of days ago I had to create a single PDF out of a bunch of single paged PDF documents. There are a couple of of tools out there like pdftk which can do the job, but a graphical … Continue reading
13. May 2009
by Christoph
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linux.com challenges Facebook
Early this year the news reported that the
25. April 2009
by Christoph
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Package source with bleeding edge graphic drivers for Ubuntu
Today Bryce Harrington of Ubuntu announced on the Ubuntu Developer the following info… A little Jaunty Release Day present from the Ubuntu-X team. From past releases, we know that often people want a way to try out newer drivers than … Continue reading
23. April 2009
by Christoph
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Shutdown the system without root permissions with PolicyKit
I’m using Ubuntu Jaunty since a couple of weeks and the longer I’m using the new version, the more nice things I find. One is the on going integration of PolicyKit into GNOME. The following use-case was until Jaunty pretty … Continue reading
3. April 2009
by Christoph
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Portable Ubuntu
On my still unsuccessful search for a solution to run a virtual Linux from an usb-stick, which doesn’t need administrative rights on Microsoft Windows, I stumbled upon Portable Ubuntu. They chose a pretty clever way to run a virtual Linux … Continue reading
31. March 2009
by Christoph
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Compiz inside a virtual machine with VirtualBox 2.2
How do you call it to install the beta of a new operating system inside the beta of a virtual machine based on the beta of a new operating system? Yep: Stupid! So, don’t try this at home… A couple … Continue reading
20. March 2009
by Christoph
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Build your own anonymous Firefox
Google introduced this feature in Google Chrome and Mozilla will include it in Firefox 3.5. Webbrowsers with a “anonymous mode” – some people will call it “porn mode” – where no personal information is saved – are sexy… Fans of … Continue reading
7. March 2009
by Christoph
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Is Ext4 ready for the desktop?
Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 will offer support for Ext4. A lot of users will try the new file system, especially since it will offer a huge performance boost. But it looks like that there is a massive downside. I quote … Continue reading