It is quite common to expect the availability of free and open-source software for common needs, such as an operating system and an office suite. What is the situation when your needs are much more advanced? Such as, when you are looking for an information system for a hospital? Luckily, there is such a software …
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May 03 2007
Ubuntu 7.04 DVD edition 4.3GB: done
Have been trying to download Ubuntu 7.04 DVD edition for the last few days. I use the amazing wget program with the command line looking like wget -c http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/releases/7.04/release/ubuntu-7.04-dvd-i386.iso I started off the download in Windows, and over the course of the days I would interrupt and restart the download depending on what I was …
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Apr 19 2007
Ubuntu 7.04 DVD edition
Ubuntu 7.04 is out and the ubuntu.com website is struggling to cope with the traffic. Apart from the typical CD version, you can download the DVD version of Ubuntu 7.04. The ISO file is about 4GB, available in x86 and AMD64 flavours. Here are some mirrors (some may not be updated yet) Ubuntu 7.04 DVD …
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Apr 18 2007
Connecting to Bluetooth devices between Linux and Windows
A common issue that arises when you connect your laptop to your Bluetooth device (such as mobile phone), is that the device forges a unique authentication with the Bluetooth stack of the operating system. What that means is that if I pair my laptop with my phone in Linux, the pairing works only in Linux. …
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Apr 11 2007
Firefox shortcuts in Linux on non-us keyboard layout, and Greek
You tried to use the common keyboard shortcuts in the Linux version of Firefox, with a keyboard layout other than us, and you realised they do not work. For example, Ctrl-C does not work when the Greek keyboard layout is active because Firefox receives Ctrl-Ψ (which is undefined). This is a well-known problem affecting keyboard …
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Apr 02 2007
Using SVN for GNOME Translators
Update 3rd June 2009: This is a very old post when GNOME was using SVN for the VCS (now we use git). My blog theme does not show the year, so I am writing this in case you are confused by the post. Now GNOME uses SVN to manage the development of the software. To …
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