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May
Why is my Ubuntu 10.04 emacs so messed up?
This is what it looks like, if I install any of the emacs*-gtk packages: (i.e. the ones that support TTF/Antialiased fonts)
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Nov
Ubuntu 9.10′s Solr package is over 2 years old.
Despite what I had said previously, I’m now not recommending installing solr & tomcat from ubuntu packages. The version of solr that is provided by Ubuntu 9.10 is solr 1.2, which is over 2 years old. Installing directly from the solr .jar is likely better. Tomcat was kind of pain in the ass anyway.
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Nov
Another thing that annoys me about apt
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Compare the output of : $ apt-cache search syntax | grep python with $ apt-cache search python | grep syntax I guess I need to get into the habit of typing “$ apt-cache search python syntax” but I’m not even sure that’s what I want.
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Aug
Throttling pipes in ubuntu linux using cstream
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When I stream music from my home to my work, I want to make sure that I throttle my music such that it doesn’t saturate my outgoing network connection and make the rest of my internet slow. All I wanted to do was throttle a stdout pipe that’s being sent to the music player. I [...]
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Aug
Running amazonmp3 downloader on Ubuntu 9.04 amd64 (Jaunty) via a chroot
The one biggest (and most annoying) missing package for Ubuntu 9.04 amd64 is the amazon mp3 downloader package. This is critical being able to download special cheap albums from amazon, and is only available as a 32-bit package for Ubuntu 8.04 (Intrepid). There are several descriptions on the net on how to hack around missing [...]
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Aug
I’ve given up on web-based music services.
It was a long and tumultuous affair, but now I’ve officially given up on web-based streaming of my personal music collection. I started out with netjuke, which died and got absorbed into the horrible jinzora project. So then I switched to Ampache, which worked fairly well, but needs some serious UI upgrades/changes to make it [...]
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Aug
RRDTool bindings for php5 in Ubuntu
As far as I can tell, there are no RRDTool bindings for php5 for Ubuntu 9.04. It appears as though it existed in prior distributions that included php4, but Ubuntu 9.04 no longer includes php4. Several others are talking about compiling it from source, but this seems very wrong and unnecessary to me. If you [...]
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Aug
Notes on transitioning from Fedora Core to Ubuntu
Just some quick notes before I forget them. I’ve recently switched my primary desktop machine from Fedora Core 8 (very old, I know) x86_64 to Ubuntu 9.04 (latest and greatest) x86_64. In general, things went well, but there were a couple gotchas that I had to work through, so I thought I’d list them here: [...]
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Dec
Vertical scrolling fix for Lenovo S10 (Ubuntu)
By slacy|General, Photos|14 Comments
So, the Lenovo S10 works great with Linux, particularly Ubuntu 8.10, but the one thing thats a bit wonky is the way the trackpad works. The trackpad is non-square, but reports square coodinates, so the vertical motion is exaggerated. I’ve compiled a hacked version of the X11 Synaptics driver that includes a fudge factor for [...]
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Dec
Lenovo S10 first impressions
Okay, I’ve had my Lenovo S10 since Friday. I briefly played around with the default Windows XP install, upgraded the BIOS, and then installed Ubuntu 8.10 as my primary disk, and wiped the OKR (One Key Recovery) partition, since I don’t really want to ever restore Windows. Here are my first thoughts: The screen is [...]
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- @akiva are they available online anywhere? we don't have cable. :( 17 hours ago
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