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10 Μαΐου: Το φόρουμ Ubuntu-GR έχει ΓΕΝΕΘΛΙΑ (1 χρόνος)!

10 Μαΐου: Το φόρουμ Ubuntu-GR έχει ΓΕΝΕΘΛΙΑ (1 χρόνος)! Δείτε την παρουσίαση του φόρουμ του Ubuntu-gr που έκανε ο goofy στο συνέδριο FOSSCOMM που έγινε στη Λάρισα. Δείτε την ανακοίνωση γενεθλίων στο www.ubuntu-gr.org. Μερικά στατιστικά στοιχεία κατά τη συμπλήρωση του ενός χρόνου λειτουργίας του φόρουμ, τα περισσότερα από 2700 μέλη και τους πιθανότατα χιλιάδες επισκέπτες …

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Migrate from Hotmail to GMail

So you have this Hotmail account and you want to migrate to GMail for all the obvious reasons. How can you do that? A few months ago it was possible to forward your Hotmail e-mails to another e-mail account, which made it very easy to migrate to any other e-mail provider. However, Microsoft decided to …

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Git clones vs Shallow Git clones

When cloning a Git repository, there is an option to limit the amount of history your clone will have. If you set the parameter to –depth 1, you get the least amount of history, and you create a shallow clone. The git clone man page says that you cannot push your commits if you have …

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Towards a GNOME CLI translation management tool

Update 7/June/2009: The repository was moved to https://github.com/simos/gnome-i18n-manage-vcs/. There was some confusion between this script and intltools, which now is a general localisation tool, not tied to GNOME. In Designing a command-line translation tool for GNOME, I described how a CLI translation management tool would be used to ease the work of a translator with …

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Workaround for bad fonts in Google Earth 5 (Linux)

Update Jan 2010: The following may not work anymore. Use with caution. See relevant discussions at http://forum.ubuntu-gr.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=15607 and especially http://kigka.blogspot.com/2010/11/google-6.html Older post follows: So you just installed Google Earth 5 and you can’t figure out what’s wrong with the fonts? If your language does not use the Latin script, you cannot see any text? Here …

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Google Street View enters Europe

Google Street View has entered Europe. The Wikipedia article has up to date information on the countries covered already (France, Italy, Spain). In addition, there is information of the countries that will get covered in the future. The colored areas are the areas that Google Street View data is available. These areas appear when you …

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