"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." M. Gandhi

La Fibra che Ride

The Next Ubuntu coming…

The next version of Ubuntu is coming soon

The Solution Schema for Every Problem

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npviewer.bin segfault issue SOLVED with the Adobe Flash Player 64-bit native plugin

If are using a 64-bit flavour of Linux, you’ll be surely affected by the npviewer.bin issue about random crashes of the Flash Player plugin in Firefox with a message like this in your /var/log/kern.log:

npviewer.bin[6489]: segfault at 418 ip 00000000f6034d36 sp 00000000ffaaf868 error 6 in libflashplayer.so[f5dc7000+b5f000]

Well, Adobe some time ago released a beta quality 64-bit native [...]

New Linux kernel 2.6.38 gets a speed boost

The new Linux Kernel 2.6.38 has been released and has a lot of new exciting features and improvements.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/new-linux-kernel-gets-speed-boost-723
Besides, it seems that Ubuntu Natty will get this kernel.
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Driving a car with the power of thought

http://www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/fup/2011/fup_11_047/index.html

Interactive map of the Linux Kernel

Linux Kernel Map:
http://www.makelinux.net/kernel_map

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Firefox and the Java Console

After upgrading to the lastest 3.6 Firefox and the latest Jre 6.0.20 on my Ubuntu 10.4, I faced the problem about the Java Console.
Since Jre6u10 the Firefox extension has been dropped by design.
You have to enable it from the Java Console Plugin Control Panel.
Useful links:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460244

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Java#Java_Console_disabled

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511884

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Gnome Background Generator

I really like to have the background image of my Ubuntu desktop automatically changing over time.
From System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Background you can use the Gnome feature of using a special .xml file to accomplish this.
Togheter with this nice Python script (gnome-background-generator) you can simply automate the process of updating the files for [...]

An Interview with Edsger W. Dijkstra

An Interview with Edsger W. Dijkstra:
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/display.phtml?id=320

“It is the algorithm for the shortest path, which I designed in about twenty minutes.”

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Tribute to Linux Journal

I’m subscribed to Linux Journal from the very first day and yesterday, digging between my paper archives, I found these little pieces of history: the first 3 Linux Journal issues published in 1994.
This journal for me has been a really useful source in all these years of Linux fun, so a big big Thank You [...]

Wonderful full rainbow

A really nice full rainbow photo taken early morning on 29 august 2010.
I do have to install a panoramic photo maker on my N900
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