I though it is about time I blog something about my computer setup. I run a fair amount of machines for either work purposes or at home. One thing I can say is that I am totally Windows free when it comes to booting up my machines. I do however have a Virtual Windows instance […]
I am not going to say much about it except why another OS and what is going to take them so long that it will only be available in more than a year from now. By that time the world has moved on. Why not just put a Chrome layer on top of say Ubuntu […]
A couple of days ago, I received an invite to start using UbuntuOne. I have been using Dropbox for a while already and am very happy with that. Now being an Ubuntu supporter, I decided to give it a try on my Ubuntu 9.04 machine. The install went fine and signup was flawless and worked […]
Around September last year I got a new work laptop – Lenovo T60. IBM, for whom I work, gives one the choice of what OS to run on the desktop ie Windows or some Linux flavor. Oh and some people actually do run Macs also. The Linux is either Red Hat, Fedora, OpenSuse or Ubuntu. […]
I am looking for a solution to Sync Lotus Notes 8.5 on Ubuntu with Google Calendar. It only needs to be an one way sync from Notes to Google Calendar. I have searched the Interwebs but have not found a suitable solution. Have found some stuff for Windows but not for Ubuntu or even Linux […]
This is just for my reference since it happened a couple of times when I open Add/Remove Programs and find the listing to be blank. If you encounter this then here is the solution to fix it. Do the following:sudo apt-get remove gnome-app-installsudo apt-get install gnome-app-install apturl ubufox ubuntu-desktop You should now have a fully […]
I am running Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) together with Eclipse 3.3.1 and PDT 1.0.3 and wanted to upgrade to the latest Eclipse and PDT — that is Eclipse 3.4 and PDT 2.0. The easiest way I have found after lots of struggling is as follows: Download the All-in-one PDT package from here. Here is the full […]
Dreamhost had this special where one gets 2 years hosting for about R200.00 so I signed up mainly to play around with Subversion and put up a new blog writing about technical things like Linux, Ubuntu, Dreamhost, Subversion, PHP etc. I have another blog called Famous last word of Marius where I mainly post photos […]