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Spanish Ubuntu wiki

Ubuntu Portada

I found a Spanish Ubuntu Wiki on the internet today, which I find it quite useful. The wiki contains info and guides about how to use Ubuntu in Spanish language. Among the guide in the wiki are:

How to install Ubuntu from downloading images/burning iso

  • Customising desktop
  • Introduction to Linux
  • How to use GRUB
  • Understanding processes
  • How to configure network
  • Installing application
  • How to do programming in Ubuntu

Currently there’s 114 articles that span over 1,800 pages on the wiki, the numbers of contribution ar growing each day as it being updated by the community. Wish we have a lot more localised wiki like this, because free software is about freedom of choice.

[tags]ubuntu,debian,linux,spanish,wiki,mediawiki,community,gnu/linux,portada,guide[/tags]

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Install Opera 9, Realplayer 10 on Ubuntu Dapper

Greetings fellow Ubuntu users, I’ve brought some good news to you for those who prefer to use Opera over Firefox. Now you can get your favorite browser running in your Ubuntu Dapper without much hassle.

Canonical ( independently from Ubuntu community ) has announced the ubuntu dapper commercial repository which houses Opera web browser, among other softwares. Interested? Here’s how to setup canonical repository in Ubuntu :

  1. From Desktop, go to System->Administration, select Synaptic Package Manager
  2. Select Setting->Repositories from Synaptic, a dialog appears
  3. Click Add then Custom, another dialog appears with a textbox that reads APT line:
  4. put “deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu dapper-commercial main"
  5. Click Add Channel, then Close
  6. Click Reload at the top left corner of the Synaptic application.
  7. Now you can install Opera to Ubuntu from synaptic

Note : you can also install Opera from command line by entering the following line from the terminal.

sudo apt-get install opera

Did I mention that Real Player 10 is also included in the repository?

Have fun !

[tags]opera,ubuntu,realplayer, real player, debian, linux, repository, canonical,repositories[/tags]

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Grrr TMNet suspended my Streamyx account!

I’m so pissed because TMnet suspended my account because I was behind my bill. It’s not like I want to pay, but I was busy doing other work that I forgot to pay the bills, besides how can I remember to pay the bills if they fail to deliver them?

Before this I used to receive printed bills everynow and then delivered by mail, and I usually pays up my bills on time, but now TMNet seems not to send Streamyx Broadband bills anymore. I’m bit busy and distracted by my work, making me forgot to pay my bills without the reminder.

What’s worse is, I can’t even log in to tmbill website to see how much that I owe TMnet, they seems to block your streamyx account and your access to online billing system too! Give me a break, at least make the online billing system bit more friendly instead of IE6 only page.

Note to self :

I won’t wait for my streamyx bill anymore, I’ll check my internet bill every 15th day of the month. Damn you TMnet, I lost my productivity hours due to suspension and having to go to their office to pay up my bills (btw, I read that paying Streamyx bills through Maybank2u isn’t safe).

[tags]tmnet,streamyx,internet,broadband,pissed,wireless[/tags]

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.0.4

After almost a year using WordPress 1.5.2, I finally decided to upgrade it to the latest WordPress 2.0.4 last night.

The upgrade *sounded* easy by just merely reading the html file. But the reality is, I’ve to restore my WP 1.5.2 back again and again because WordPress 2.0.4 just display a blank page after I attempted to upgrade my blog.

Finally I trace back the problem to either my themes or my plugins that caused the problem, so I deleted them too in addition to my old WordPress 1.5.2 files, so that explains why you see yet another new theme for my blog today.

Lucky I use WP-Cron plugin that can help you automatically back up your wordpress database everyday, I suggest you use one to in case if your webhosting company fscked up and leave you without your database.

All in all, I’m glad that I took me less than an hour to upgrade this blog, despite few mishaps happened during the upgrading process :)

[tags]blog,blogging,wordpress,upgrade,weblog,weblogging,blog[/tags]

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Google Blogger Beta – Now Support Categories

Yesterday Blogger Beta has been announced in the Blogger Buzz. Blogger Beta brings new improvements over the classic blogger that we used to blog with. Among the new features are :

google blogger

  • Categories!
  • Blogger account is now merged with your Google account
  • Fine-grained author control
  • Private blog
  • New templates
  • comment feed
  • updated dashboard
  • Instant publishing, no need to republish your blog

Perhaps the most long awaited feature is the Categories which makes it easier to organise your blog with it and trackbacks. But I guess considering the amount of spam that you might get I think trackback is not worth the feature for blogger.com.

Blogger Beta migration is only limited for a few accounts for now, and you can only migrate your blog to the new Blogger system??if you see the Upgrade icon in your blogger dashboard.

At the time of this writing, your blog can’t be migrated if you host it at a different host other than blogger.com and/or your blog has many contributors/authors.

You can register an account with Blogger Beta with your Google account to test drive the system first. Howeve, as admitted in Blogger website, Blogger Beta still has few unsquished bugs, so use it at your own risk.

[tags]blog,blogging,weblog,weblogging,blogger,google,trackback[/tags]

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Gnomefiles Firefox search plugin !

Great news out there! I use Gnomefiles a lot to search cool new GNOME apps to use for my day-to-day work, and some of them are really useful to me! But today, out of boredom and extra free time, I’ve created firefox plugin for gnomefiles. And It works great!
gnomefiles

For the uninitiated, GnomeFiles is a software repository which list GTK+/GNOME application exclusively. The website lists applications (in source or binary form) created for the GNOME Desktop and also all GTK+ applications (Unix/Linux/Windows & SkyOS). The website also list application which uses Gnome/GTK+ bindings such as wxWidgets, pyGTK, GTK#, Java SWT, perl-GTK2, ruby-GTK, etc.

It integrate itself to your search engine pull down menu at the upper-right corner where Google search engine is the default, and you can start searching for gnome apps right from inside of your browser (i.e no need to type/memorise Gnomefiles url, etc).

So get your
GnomeFiles Firefox search plugin now!

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