Like many many users, I had a bad feeling that the upgrade to xserver-xorg would not go normal. Thankfully for me, although I did the upgrade, I did not reboot and was able to finish several pages of work. However, this morning I saw the light, or I should say I saw the text-mode....
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Install 32 bit wine to 64 bit Dapper
Install 32 bit wine to 64 bit Dapper This is one more gem I fished from the wonderful ubuntu forums. How to install wine in a 64-bit box running amd64. The instructions are plain and clear and should apply to the majority of people who follow them. The Ubuntonistas who will execute these instructions...
Visiting the visitors
I often look into the statistics of this blog for two reasons. First, I like to know where the readers come from (location). Second, what’s their source of info about this site (how did they make it here?). Apparently, ubuntu is a major source of attraction for this blog and there are several hits...
Acrobat 7.0 in ubuntu 6.06 amd64
In the following thread about programs that do not work/are not available under Dapper Drake 64-bit edition – Ubuntu Forums you can find a wonderful gem in the –force-architecture flag. Use the command:$ dpkg -i –force-architecture some_archive_for_i386_deb and install files that are not yet available for amd64. I did and installed Adobe’s Acrobat Reader...
*-util is your friend
Back in the old days of config files, you had to manually edit various .cfg files in order to fix everything and make it work. This still works today, but why bother? This is the kind of automaticity that I would like to see more of in newer linux distributions. Take, for example, the...
Proud Ubuntu User #3273
Visit the ubuntu counter project and register as a happy ubuntu user and show your support for your favorite distro. I. #3273
Ubuntu 6.06 Is Current Desktop Linux Champ – Yahoo! News
Ubuntu 6.06 Is Current Desktop Linux Champ – Yahoo! News (well, that was the big news from 2006. Yahoo has removed the story). Nevertheless, it is still my choice of desktop. Although the past postings have been “yes, but”, “it works now, it does not work in 10 minutes”, all these mishaps should be...
No, i don’t want drake. Breezy is fine for me!
No, I don’t want to upgrade to dapper. Just give me my trusted breezy badger. As I have already written in past postings, I was able (after some work) to get an old Pentium 3 box running with the latest 6.06 LTS dapper drake. I was also able to install the drake on a...
Gnomebaker saga!
The Gnome project’s cdrecording application is a nifty little thing called gnomebaker. Nice little app, looks like a lot like k3b (or k3b looks like gnomebaker a lot—depending on your choice of platforms). As advertised, it can read various lossy and lossless formats, including ogg, mp3 flac etc. However, as I discovered to my...
What is Linux?
I like reading the news. I do. You can say I am a news junkie. Not only politics, but technews, sportnews, science, you name it, I read it. My blogroll is full of tech related feeds. So I was surprised to read the following piece about SCO: SCO To Unix Developers: We Want You...
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