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I’ve got this warning when I tried to print my documents from OpenOffice few days ago. Finally, I’ve used up my HP OfficeJet 5680 Ink for my works.
It’s cool to have such warning working properly from my Linux Desktop. I truly heart HP Officejet printer and their open source drivers :)
It is a well known fact that Ubuntu Linux distribution has a comprehensive application collection from its repositories which can be installed at anytime provided the users have a relatively fast internet connection.
However there are still places in the world which do not have access to such connection which may prevent users from installing new applications on their Ubuntu operating system. Luckily somebody took the time to put Ubuntu Gutsy software repository into a collection of DVDs which may be handy if you are going to introduce Ubuntu to your friends which does not have an internet connection at his home.
The repository DVDs are available for i386 and 64bit platform and are divided to 5 DVDs. The DVD images (size up to 4.0GB) are downloadable for free from ftp://tuma.ui.edu/pub/ubuntu-repository/gutsy/.
Please refer to the Jigdo tutorial from Debian website on how to download the DVD using Jigdo.
Instructions on how to add the DVD repository to your Ubuntu operating system is detailed here : Add CD/DVD apt Repository.
An Indonesian version of the instruction is also available from : http://wiki.ubuntu-id.org/DistribusiDvdReposUbuntu
Ubuntu has gained enormous popularity, since Canonical first released Ubuntu back in 2004. There were a lot of Ubuntu spin-off along the way including Ubuntu Christian edition, Ubuntu studio, Embun, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Muslim Edition, Linux Mint, gOS and many more. Some of it made its way as the officially supported Ubuntu version by Canonical.
Now comes yet another Ubuntu-based Linux distribution, named Minibuntu. What set itself apart from other distro is, it does not come with a window manager, instead it boots straight into command-line interface bash prompt.
This makes minibuntu suitable for acting as a rescue and emergency Linux boot CD, eventhough the main intention of minibuntu is to help others to create another Linux distribution based on Ubuntu using either UCK or Reconstructor.
To me, Miniubuntu is a nice distro as it provide a starting point for creating a new and customised Linux distribution based on Ubuntu.
Minibuntu can be downloaded from its official website, and is only available for i386 platform only (at this time of writing).
Here’s a quick how to install Midori browser. It is a lightweight browser which uses Webkit rendering enginer, the same engine that powers Mac OS X Safari browser.
Midori is a good candidate for an alternative browser if you’ve gotten tired of Mozilla Firefox memory leaking and its not so lightweight feature nowadays.
1) Edit /etc/apt/sources.lst to include these line
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/stemp/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/stemp/ubuntu gutsy main
2) Update repository by executing,
sudo apt-get update
3) Install midori
sudo apt-get install midori
Note that midori is still under heavy development and quite buggy in this testing release. So expect application freeze or crashes during use.
I’m not a fan of installing and using operating system on VMWare, nevertheless I found out that this guy has made a great tutorial on how to install Windows Vista on Ubuntu using VMWare
Check his website out : Install Windows Vista in Ubuntu, I know some of my friends would be excited by this.
I just discovered today that Google (street) maps is now available for my hometown – Alor Star! Upon checking further I discovered that the street level maps is also available for various other places in the northern part of Malaysia too, including remote areas in Perlias and Kedah, w00t.
Here’s sample of the street map taken from Google Maps
Check this feature in Google Maps now!
Now I can relate more stuff from my Dopod P800W to Google Maps and vice versa