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Europe 2011
After several months of preparations I have half a day of work to go before we head to Sydney and fly to Paris to begin our 6 week European Vacation. I think I will divert this blog for a few weeks from the predominately IT/Linux postings and try my Lonely Planet...
HP Mini – No Option to install Ubuntu side by side with Windows 7 Starter edition
I installed Ubuntu onto my HP Mini 110 using the Windows Ubuntu Installer (Wubi). A Wubi install of Ubuntu is basically virtual disk files sitting on top of the Windows 7 NTFS file system, and a mod to the windows 7 boot manager enables you to boot Ubuntu which uses a...
The Days of our Ubuntu’s
OK so I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 on a HP Mini and am currently finding and installing useful apps so that I can run it in a Windows environment. So I find I need: tsclient (with the following 2 apps also) rdesktop (Remote Desktop Connection to Windows Boxen)...
HP Mini 100 – Making the Function Keys Function
I use Putty to access a character application that makes extensive use of F1-F11 function keys so you can imagine how annoying it is to have to press the fn key every time I wanted an F1. So a trip to the BIOS and change the "Action Key Mode" to <disabled> And...
Chromium Browser Java Plugin on Ubuntu Netbook Edition 11.04 Beta
Install the Java components which are in java-6-openjdk or contained within ubuntu-restricted-extras: sudo apt-get install java-6-openjdk # I used this one because it gives a heap of oft needed codecs sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras To test goto:...
Postbooks Installation Failure
Trying to install Postbooks on a 32 bit Linux Mint 10 installation. There has been an error. /opt/xTuple/postgresql/bin/initdb: error while loading shared libraries: libaudit.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The application will exit...