Upgrade Ubuntu Hardy Heron to Intrepid Ibex - the CLI way. Sunday, 2 Nov, 2008 Today I'm going to upgrade my _old_ Ubuntu Hardy Heron X86_64 laptop to the fresh _new_ (autumnal) Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex X86_64, the CLI way (this pocess "should" also work with the 32 bit version). Open a new virtual terminal and type: cd dpkg −−get−selections > ~/my-installed-programs With the above command, you'll make a backup copy of the… Read More
Fast install freenx server on Ubuntu Hardy X68_64. Friday, 24 Oct, 2008 I needed to install FreeNX Server on my wive's Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04.1 LTS X86_64 PC fast. I opened a Terminal and typed the following: sudoedit /etc/apt/sources.list I pasted the following at EOF: # Launchpad freenx-server deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/freenx-team/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/freenx-team/ubuntu hardy main :wq, then: sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install freenx-server After that I got… Read More
my local DEBIAN mirror. Monday, 20 Oct, 2008 Someday at work, it was decided that having a local debian mirror would be beneficial. After some research, I choose total flexibility, by adopting the anonftpsync shell script. Anonftpsync is a self-descriptive-log-and-mail kind of script. You'll just have to customize it a bit in order to be able to use it. For convenience, below you'll… Read More
the (MAD) Server. Thursday, 16 Oct, 2008 Short post where I talk about a new hobby: multiplayer fps with F.E.A.R.… Read More
Royaltek RBT-2210 Ubuntu. Sunday, 27 Jul, 2008 | 2 Comments I recently bought a Bluetooth GPS Antennae, it is the famous Royaltek RBT-2210, known for offering an amazing 23 hours of battery life (replaceble by using standard commodity Nokia mobile batteries), and powered by the critically acclaimed (by several online reviewers) Chipset Sirf Star III. In short, an acceptable fast device, with good precision, excellent battery… Read More
Basic Networking Howto. Wednesday, 16 Jul, 2008 Given my many job roles have always had something Networking-related, today I felt like posting a summary of the topic (I may always refer to in case I forget how networking works). The following takes into account the structure of LAN Networks with the TCP/IP Suite of Protocols. Admittedly, in the past I have fallen "victim of ignorance" when talking… Read More
pogo, the new 3D browser! Tuesday, 1 Jul, 2008 I'm adding a new category on my site: reviews. Like all new things, my first review is more a "preview" than a review, and its subject is a closed beta 3D browser: the pogo browser. Today's browsers became so popular that we may distinguish between "core"-browsers and "value-added" ones. "Core"-browsers are more specialized on interpreting… Read More
How :nerd: are you? Here's my score 8-) Thursday, 19 Jun, 2008 Tonight, instead of going to sleep, I took the nerd test, a fast, good, honest and uncheated way to waste time and have fun. Kick your browser in and show everyone the nerd inside you! Now, all the wanna-be pwrusrs, have to score at least 75 on the Nerd Rank 😎… Read More
Wine 1.0 released, Mozilla Firefox 3.0 download day, Geforce GTX 280 & more! Wednesday, 18 Jun, 2008 Great news from Free and Open Source World! As you all may know, Mozilla Foundation Inc. anticipated some time ago the download day event, with the objective to set a new guiness world record, by becoming the most downloaded software on 24 hours (the objective was set at 5 million downloads). Actual numbers seem… Read More
How to Enable/Disable Javascript on IE 7 (mini how-to). Monday, 16 Jun, 2008 For some reason, at work I needed to enable/disable Javascript on Intenet Explorer 7. Tested Versions: Internet Explorer 7.0.6000.16643 on Windows Vista. Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.11 on Windows XP. How to: "Tools" Menu -> "Internet Options" -> "Security" tab. choose "Internet" and click on "Custom Level..." button inside "Security Level for this zone" box. on… Read More
NWN2 Mask of The Betrayer + Ubuntu Hardy 64 + wine. Friday, 2 May, 2008 | 1 Comment Aint't Neverwinter Nights 2 unpatched enough for your wine emulation aspirations? Do you wanna take the Red Pill ? This part is gonna focus on the hardest part of getting Neverwinter Nights 2 + Neverwinter Nights 2: The Mask of The Betrayer Official Expansion fully patched, to work under wine-0.9.60 and Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 X86_64.… Read More
NWN2 + Ubuntu Hardy + wine. Friday, 25 Apr, 2008 | 3 Comments I like games, who doesn't? I started from "Press Play on tape" to (misattributed) "640K ought to be enough for anybody" to Voodoos & today's wine. I'm also trying to avoid Windows XP when possible (why? IDK...) and I'm with the people that thinks 2008 will be the Linux Desktop year. So that's my short intro to my… Read More
ldap, samba, & Co. Friday, 11 Apr, 2008 Network Users & Computers management is what I've been studying recently. The following is a placeholder-post related to info I should inspect and eventually try: What is LDAP? Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol Well, I wanna try it! Here: http://www.howtoforge.com/openldap-samba-domain-controller-ubuntu7.10 Other clues? Here: http://islandlinux.org/howto/installing-samba-openldap-ubuntu#install_samba What about security? Here: http://islandlinux.org/howto/installing-secure-ldap-openldap-ssl-ubuntu-using-self-signed-certificate A self signed Cert is crap! I want mine.… Read More