Posts for planet.ubuntu.com
Jun 25 2016
This post is about containers, a construct similar to virtual machines (VM) but so much lightweight that you can easily create a dozen on your desktop Ubuntu! A VM virtualizes a whole computer and then you install in there the guest operating system. In contrast, a container reuses the host Linux kernel and simply contains just the root …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.simos.info/trying-out-lxd-containers-on-our-ubuntu/
Mar 27 2015
Θα δούμε πως μπορούμε να φτιάξουμε εύκολα ένα webapp (εφαρμογή/app που εμπεριέχει mobile website) στο Ubuntu Touch. Για τα βήματα αυτά δεν χρειάζεται να έχουμε καν το κινητό. Ξεκινούμε με το να βρούμε ένα δικτυακό τόπο που διαθέτει μια έκδοση για κινητά (mobile website). Για το παράδειγμά μας, χρησιμοποιούμε το www.real.gr. Καθώς βλέπουμε το www.real.gr, …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.simos.info/%cf%80%cf%89%cf%82-%cf%86%cf%84%ce%b9%ce%ac%cf%87%ce%bd%ce%bf%cf%85%ce%bc%ce%b5-%ce%b5%cf%8d%ce%ba%ce%bf%ce%bb%ce%b1-app-webapp-%ce%b3%ce%b9%ce%b1-%cf%84%ce%bf-ubuntu-phone/
Jun 02 2014
We normally see around a few birds and it is rather easy to count them. However, when there is a flock with dozens, hundreds or thousands of birds, there is need for an automated (computer-assisted) method to count the birds. Without a computer-assisted method, it is easy to over/under-estimate the count, and worst of all, there is …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.simos.info/how-to-count-the-population-of-flocks-of-birds-using-software/
Nov 26 2012
How many people are using Ubuntu? It is difficult to get precise numbers so we end up looking for trends. Up until now we had free Linux stats from gs.statcounter.com. These are the operating system statistics for Greece for the last year. (I am using Greece as an example. All other countries are also supported). …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.simos.info/ubuntu-usage-stats-with-getclicky/
Oct 17 2012
Gangnam Style is a song by Korean rapper PSY (pronounced as in PSYchology), and it is currently one of the most popular songs on the Internets. It’s now the No 8 most viewed video of all time on Youtube. It is definitely the most popular Korean (k-pop) song worldwide. The Gangnam Style video on Youtube …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.simos.info/gangnam-style-in-ubuntu/
Nov 14 2010
So you got an Android mobile phone and you want to access it from your Ubuntu. You can get shell access to your phone, you can copy files from/to, and much more. In this post I cover the overall process. You connect your mobile phone to your computer with a USB cable. Most Android phones …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.simos.info/accessing-your-android-from-ubuntu-and-compiling-stuff/
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