It is quite exciting when helping new users solve issues while migrating to the Linux operating system, and Ubuntu Linux in this case. A couple of weeks ago, a new member at the Ubuntu-gr forum posted a question about a sound problem in an Ubuntu Linux installation. Here is the timeline An initial post was …
Tag: patch
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May 13 2008
thersa.org.uk, infected.
The screenshot shows the thersa.org.uk website has been infected, and users that visit it end up running in their browsers malicious JavaScript code. The code loads Javascript files from the .cn and the .la domains. There is a reference in one of the files to a cookie named killav (Kill Antivirus?) that may disable some …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.simos.info/thersaorguk-infected/
Feb 19 2008
task update (el)
Ακολουθώντας το παράδειγμα του Δημήτρη για συνοπτική ενημέρωση των πεπραγμένων, Πρόσθεσα τις μεταφράσεις του Γιάννη Κατσαμπίρη στο SVN του GNOME. Έκανα έλεγχο των μεταφράσεων και έστειλα σχόλια στη λίστα του gnome.gr. Ο Γιάννης μετέφρασε ή ενημέρωσε τις μεταφράσεις για τα vinagre, gnome-mag, mousetweaks, mousetweaks-help. Έκανα σχόλια στο http://laptop.grinia.net/ για τη διαβούλευση για το μαθητικό υπολογιστή. …
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Oct 07 2007
One-line hardware support (USB Wireless Adapter)
I got recently a USB Wireless Adaptor, produced by Aztech. It was a good buy for several reasons: It advertised Linux support It was affordable It had good quality casing; you can step on it and it won’t break It had the Penguin on the box and was really really cheap When I plugged it …
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Jul 23 2007
Important MO file optimisation for en_* locales, and partly others
During GUADEC, Tomas Frydrych gave a talk on exmap-console, a cut-down version of exmap that can work well on mobile devices. During the presentation, Tomas showed how to use the tool to find the culprits in memory (ab)use on the GNOME desktop. One issue that came up was that the MO files taking up space …
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