Free and Open Source blogger with an attitude
Maybe after spending hours of wading through http logs makes me imagining things, such as the font typeface on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. They seems to look crispier and clearer than on Feisty Fawn, even on my old CRT monitor.
The differences is analogous to letter printed with Bubble-Jet printer versus one that is printed with a Laser Printer, you can just spot the differences.
[tags]ubuntu,gutsy,gutsy gibbon,feisty fawn,gnome,font,typeface,windows,opensource,gtk,ttf[/tags]
Few days ago my site has been subjected to bad http crawling bot which caused my site to be slower than usual. It become worse when somebody took advantage of the situation and launch a Denial-of-Service attack to my website which effectively took my website down for few hours per-day until today.
Rest assured the culprits has been identified and has been dealt with, you can enjoy reading my blog again. I’ve made few modification to my sites so it is more resistant to this sort of problem the next time around.
I sincerely apologize to those who have been subjected to hours of waiting for my site to load (and viewing the dreaded Internal Server Error messages) for the past 3-4 days.
And for those who are wondering about Gutsy Gibbon update will be able to read them at my personal blog : http://please.name.my.
Have fun !
[tags]gutsy,gutsy gibbon,ubuntu,feisty,feisty fawn,ddos,downtime,dreamhost,bots,bad bots[/tags]
With advancement of wireless technology, bluetooth has become a de facto standard for transferring files (and synchronizing data) between mobile devices (PDA, smartphone) and personal computer.
In this post I’m going to show you how to send and receive files over bluetooth using obexftp and obexpushd package from OpenOBEX project.
Send files to mobile device
First install obexftp and obexpushd
sudo apt-get install obexftp obexpushd
Insert a bluetooth dongle and activate bluetooth on your mobile phone. Do a scan of nearby bluetooth device (your mobile phone) by executing :
obexftp -b
obexftp then will display the scan result on your screen, like this :
Scanning ... Using 00:15:A0:53:6F:85 Nokia 6680 Browsing 00:15:A0:53:6F:85 ... Channel: 10
Pick a file, and try sending it over bluetooth by executing :
obexftp -b 00:15:A0:53:6F:85 -p example.txt
obexftp will then send the file to your bluetooth device (address : 00:15:A0:53:6F:85 – taken from previous command). Make sure that you set the mobile device to accept the file.
How to receive files over bluetooth
Insert bluetooth dongle and turn it into discoverable mode
hciconfig hci0 piscan
Continue reading “Howto Send and Recieve files over Bluetooth with Ubuntu Linux”
While Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Edition isn’t quite ready yet, seems to me somebody tries to get creative by posting this video on Youtube.
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Ubuntu on Sony Ericsson P990i
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Meanwhile, here’s the correct video that shows the current progress of Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Edition UI.
Continue reading “Ubuntu Mobile Edition running on Sony Ericsson P990i?”
I just found out from Brandon Holtsclaw’s blog that he started a project named UbuntuWire for the benefit of Ubuntu users.
UbuntuWire is a specialized Ubuntu search engine which can help you find information related to Ubuntu operating system quickly without having to wade through countless unrelated websites on the internet. The search engine is powered by by Google Custom search and only takes result from reliable/official Ubuntu websites.
Alternatively you could try Uboontu which performs the exact same functionality as UbuntuWire but with different UI presentation.
Hope that would help you shorten your work when you’re searching for Ubuntu related information.
[tags]ubuntu,debian.linux,opensource,open source,gutsy,gutsy gibbon,howto,guide[/tags]
The most usual (and popular!) way to create a “mixed-tape” Audio CD is to burn it from a collection of MP3 song taken of several sources.
However as these mp3 are ripped from several sources, there would be inconsistencies of the volume loudness which would create an annoyance if one had to readjust the CD player volume from song-to-song.
A “Normalization” process would automatically fixed the audio so that all song would have the same amount of volume, but sadly the default Serpentine Audio CD creator that comes with Ubuntu does not support normalization.
How to Normalize MP3 song
First of all open a terminal and install normalize-audio package :
sudo apt-get install normalize-audio
Then change directory to your mp3 collections to be burned and execute:
normalize-audio -m -v *.mp3
normalize-audio will then compute the files level one-by-one and then will apply normalization on all mp3 files.
You can then use your favorite CD burner application (like Serpentine) to burn the normalized MP3 files to make an audio CD.
normalize-audio also supports ogg files for normalization.
Happy burning!
[tags]mp3,audiocd,burning,cd burn,audio cd,ogg,vorbis,opensource,open source,gutsy,gutsy gibbon,ubuntu[/tags]