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Today links

amelandri — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:36:13 +0000

Good karma: an in-depth review of Ubuntu 9.10 Ars review
Simply Buttons v2 Javascript/CSS stylish buttons
How to wire your house for Ethernet networking from Instructables
10 Easy jQuery Tricks for Designers

Fix ttf-mscorefonts-installer in Karmic Koala

amelandri — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:47:16 +0000

A fix for the ttf-mscorefonts-installer problem in Ubuntu 9.10, waiting for an official bugfix

Howto: Fix ttf-mscorefonts-installer problems in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala « Friendly Tech Ninja.

Correct Lotus Notes behavior on Ubuntu 9.10

amelandri — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:14:15 +0000

After upgrading my desktop to Karmic Koala I started having some problem with my Notes 8.5.1 installation with window not displaying contents.

Doing a brief Google search I found this thread about a change made in libgtk that breaks Lotus Notes.

The solution is in comment #13: just follow the simple instructions and Lotus Notes will be working again.

Update – Nov, 4th 2009

As pointed out by jklocke, a fresh Lotus Notes installation on Ubuntu 9.10 doesn’t work: Notes won’t start at all.

The solution he found is very simple and quick: Notes cannot find the packages libgnomeprint2.2-0 and libgnomeprintui2.2-0.

To resolve the problem run this command to install missing libraries:

sudo apt-get install libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-0

Update – Mar, 30th 2010

Some commenters reported that they couldn’t see checkboxes status in preferences.
The solution found by ElToro and confirmed by Perin is to switch the theme to New Wave.

Better fonts for Lotus Notes 8.5 in Ubuntu

amelandri — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:49:17 +0000

I’ve just installed Lotus Notes 8.5 on Ubuntu and the first thing I noticed was the horrible fonts used in the interface. I’ve searched for a setting, but couldn’t find none so Goggle helped me: Notes is looking for a font called Luxi contained in the package ttf-xfree86-nonfree.

Installation is very simple:

sudo apt-get install ttf-xfree86-nonfree

Insert your password and you are done.

Install OpenOffice 3.1 on Ubuntu

amelandri — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:24:09 +0000

These are the steps to install OpenOffice 3.1 on Ubuntu.
First of all download OpenOffice 3.1 from the official web site. When you’re done, follow these steps:

1. Remove previous version

sudo apt-get remove openoffice*.*

2. Remove settings folder
This will remove ALL your OpenOffice settings

rm ~/.openoffice.org -rf

3. Expand the archive

tar -xvzf OOo_3.1.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz

4. Setup

cd OOO310_m11_native_packed-4_en-US.9399/DEBS/
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

5. Setup desktop integration

cd desktop-integration
sudo dpkg -i openoffice.org3.1-debian-menus_3.1-9393_all.deb

VMWare and Linux

amelandri — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:32:48 +0000

If you install VMware on linux you may find that some keys (up/down keys, home key, etc…) don’t work in the guest operating system.

You need to create a config file inside the .vmware folder in your home directory and paste this text info the file:

xkeymap.keycode.108 = 0x138 # Alt_R
xkeymap.keycode.106 = 0x135 # KP_Divide
xkeymap.keycode.104 = 0x11c # KP_Enter
xkeymap.keycode.111 = 0x148 # Up
xkeymap.keycode.116 = 0x150 # Down
xkeymap.keycode.113 = 0x14b # Left
xkeymap.keycode.114 = 0x14d # Right
xkeymap.keycode.105 = 0x11d # Control_R
xkeymap.keycode.118 = 0x152 # Insert
xkeymap.keycode.119 = 0x153 # Delete
xkeymap.keycode.110 = 0x147 # Home
xkeymap.keycode.115 = 0x14f # End
xkeymap.keycode.112 = 0x149 # Prior
xkeymap.keycode.117 = 0x151 # Next
xkeymap.keycode.78 = 0x46 # Scroll_Lock
xkeymap.keycode.127 = 0x100 # Pause
xkeymap.keycode.133 = 0x15b # Meta_L
xkeymap.keycode.134 = 0x15c # Meta_R
xkeymap.keycode.135 = 0x15d # Menu

Setup a LAMP server on Ubuntu

amelandri — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:23:34 +0000

These are the steps to install an Apache-MySQL-PHP server on an Ubuntu desktop machine.

# Install Apache 2
sudo apt-get install apache2
 
#Install PHP5
sudo apt-get install php5
 
#Install MySQL
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
 
#Install MySQL for Apache
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql
 
#Install PHP MySQL Support
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
sudo apt-get install php5-mysql
 
#Restart Apache
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Managing Apache

Web files must be placed in ”/var/www/”.

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Managing MySql

sudo /etc/init.d/mysqld start
sudo /etc/init.d/mysqld stop
sudo /etc/init.d/mysqld restart