The past few days have been all about installing third-party applications. Yes I know some of these are “non-free”, but it does seem like a lot of these are those apps that many of us just can’t do without. So, to continue the series here we have Installing Skype 2.0 on Ubuntu 8.10. Download The… Read More »
So its a little after noon today and I just woke up. No, I’m not a lazy late sleeper, I got home from work last nite about 4:45am. We had a huge server room rebuild consolidating ~40 servers, rebuilding two racks, and going to the data center. Loads of fun, let me tell you. Anyway,… Read More »
UPDATE: Install Adobe Reader 9 on Ubuntu 9.10 For those of you that run blogs, are you ever surprised at the content that ends up being the most popular? I get surprised all the time, particularly that my previous post regarding installation of adobe reader on Ubuntu 8.04 is near the top of the list.… Read More »
Recently I blogged about “What Do You Do Post-Install?” to find out what little tweaks everyone applies to their systems on a fresh machine. It appears that a lot of you enable the Medibuntu repository right away and take advantage of that for media and codecs. Did you know there are also other applications available,… Read More »
I mentioned in a recent post regarding postfix smtp via Gmail that I use the logwatch utility for monitoring my systems. Ever since I found this utility I have really enjoyed the daily snapshot that it gives me of each of my systems, whether local or remote. Everything from package installed and removed, to security… Read More »
After quite the hiatus from coding I have released Origami 0.6.9. Thanks go to Martin Zuther for his bug and feature request submissions on Launchpad. This release should resolve a long standing bug and also added two new features. Origami now supports definition of BIGPACKETS, which can be very important depending on your hardware. I’ve… Read More »
Recently I was tasked with doing a bunch of documentation work here at the office, and I decided to put together a wiki for the job. After a few hours of editing directly into the browser I was about to blow my brains out. I quickly decided that if I’m going to be working with… Read More »
So I was just browsing through the latest copy of Linux Journal that came in the mail today and I noticed something familiar in one of the screen shots. On page 65, in the article “Hacking the Nokia Internet Tablet” they provide a screen shot of the Pidgin buddy list. Glancing at it I noticed… Read More »
Jumping on another meme: “You have discovered that bad people always have a bad effect, and good people a good effect, upon their nearest neighbors;” – Plato, The Last Days of Socrates. Grab the nearest book. Open it to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along… Read More »
I’ve got a few servers in different places around the country and try to monitor them using the logwatch utility. One problem that I’ve run into however is that a few of these servers are not able to send their logwatch emails to me, based on email restrictions by the ISPs. I spent some time… Read More »