Just installed the Ubuntu 9.10 Beta and perusing the menus and I find under System ==> Preferences ==> IBus Preferences. Clicking on it causing a dialog: As far as I can tell IBus comes from here. From what I can tell it's an input framework that is probably some way...
The version number of Ubuntu is 9.04 and is based on the year and month of release. So 9.04 means 2009 month 04 (April). Therefore given that Ubuntu maintains a 6 month release cycle we can postulate: 4 + 6 = 10 So the new release 9.10 is due this month (October). And...
Installation Instructions for Ubuntu 9.04 Just installed Chromium (the Opensource browser Google Chrome is developed from). Very snappy. Seems reasonably stable for BETA software. So now we only have Chromium, Firefox, Konqueror, Lynx, w3m and other choices for Linux....
If you go to http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/ Microsoft has a heap of images... If you read the service agreement you will probably find that you would be better off using services that publish their content via a creative commons license or another open license....
Tip from here edit squid.conf vi /etc/squid/squid.conf Find the following section of squid.conf and add forwarded_for off # TAG: forwarded_for on|off # If set, Squid will include your system's IP address or name # in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks...
If, like me, you lack a certain amount of inspiration when trying to generate secure passwords pwgen may be the answer for you. It has heaps of options (see below) and can assist you to generate new secure passwords for your users. Thanks to the cygwin project you can...
I just attempted to use md5sum.exe under windows... In a putty session on a Linux box I ran md5sum and then copied and pasted the output to a text file under windows... [thejayster@abigbox thejayster]$ md5sum live-bak-200909250216AM.tar.gz...
Just needed to unpack an rpm on my Ubuntu Box so I could send my brother one of the chkconfig init.d scripts. To do it required the following: sudo apt-get install rpm # need this for rpm2cpio utility rpm2cpio therpmyouwantounpack.rpm | cpio -idmv
I have a Symbol VC5090 mobile computer. The Symbol remote control client starts at 1400+ AUD and rises from there. So to work around this I Googled for vnc for Windows CE 5. Download efonvnc from sourceforge here. You need the ARM version for the VC5090 Because the...
The benefit of having a sister doing web devel. Handy tip on how to see your Joomla Module positions: http://www.cageofwords.com/?p=266