Tag: problem

How to easily modify a program in your Ubuntu?

Suppose we want to change the functionality of an Ubuntu application but we do not want to go into all the trouble of finding the source code, installing in /usr/local/, breaking dependencies with original versions and so on. Let’s change Character Map (gucharmap), and specifically change the default font size from 20pt to 14pt, so …

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Mydomain sucks!

No, it’s not my domain that sucks, it’s mydomain.com sucks, a web-hosting company. Last June I chose mydomain.com to move my website to, as they had a special offer for a domain transfer and webhosting. Since my needs for my Website were specific, I gladly accepted the offer. Since then, the service was good; I …

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ISO/IEC 26300

The OASIS OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard has now been adopted by ISO/IEC! Washington, DC – The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), a broad cross-section of associations, academic institutions and industry dedicated to solving the problem of improving access and retrieval of electronic government documents, today congratulated the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for its sweeping …

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Back online!

After two weeks of webhosting problems, we are back online with a new webhosting company. Setting up the blog again was very easy; it took less than 20 minutes. Simossimos.info

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“Proposal for additional QA and localisation time on Dapper”

Mark Shuttleworth sent an e-mail titled Proposal for additional QA and localisation time on Dapper to request a six-week delay for the release of the next version of Ubuntu Linux. meeting on Tuesday 14th March – once at 09:00 UTC (for the Aussies and Asian communities) and then again at 18:00 UTC (for Europe and …

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Έχετε συναντήσει το παρακάτω πρόβλημα σε Firebird/Mozilla;

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