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Marius

From 2 Windows XP machines to 3 Ubuntu machines

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.  […]

Vodacom 3G on Ubuntu 8.10

When I was running Ubuntu 8.04 I used Vodafone Connect Driver for Linux which worked but not great.  When I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 I continued using this driver till yesterday when I managed to get connecting through Network Manager.  By default Network Manager picks up the card properly but did not want to connect […]

Lotus Notes 8.5 sync with Google Calendar on 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 […]

Ubuntu: Add/Remove Programs listing is blank

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 […]

Ubuntu: Upgrading Eclipse+PDT to latest (Eclipse 3.4 + PDT 2.0)

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 […]

Daily Digest for 2009-01-09

9:45am Posted a tweet on Twitter. New blog post: Is this the iPhone killer? http://tinyurl.com/8qec7d

Daily Digest for 2009-01-09

1:45am Posted a tweet on Twitter. New blog post: Is this the iPhone killer? http://tinyurl.com/8qec7d

Daily Digest for 2009-01-08

12:25am Posted 10 tweets on Twitter. (Show Details) New blog post: DTP #13: Roadtrip – Cape Town to Hermanus and back http://tinyurl.com/9c4h8u New blog post: Geeky (HTML) Contraception http://tinyurl.com/ay2h2g New blog post: Kite Flying and Surfing at Blouberg http://tinyurl.com/8pd45p New blog post: 2 year Dreamhost hosting for about R200.00 (include free domain name) http://tinyurl.com/9aov5y New […]

Daily Digest for 2009-01-08

4:25pm Posted 10 tweets on Twitter. (Show Details) New blog post: DTP #13: Roadtrip – Cape Town to Hermanus and back http://tinyurl.com/9c4h8u New blog post: Geeky (HTML) Contraception http://tinyurl.com/ay2h2g New blog post: Kite Flying and Surfing at Blouberg http://tinyurl.com/8pd45p New blog post: 2 year Dreamhost hosting for about R200.00 (include free domain name) http://tinyurl.com/9aov5y New […]

Daily Digest for 2009-01-07

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