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Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot 11.10 on HP EliteBook 8760W: a perfect portable Linux workstation

After working for years on a Elitebook 8530p, I was looking at a laptop which has to be performant, robust and with a good display since for my work I spend most of the time without external monitor and I need a lot of space on my desktop.

The final choice (compatible with the budget) was [...]

Ubuntu 11.10′s Unity Dash is taking shape

Ubuntu 11.10′s Unity Dash is taking shape – The H Open Source: News and Features.

Ubuntu 11.10 looks really promising!

((enjoy))

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 [...]

Thnuderbird and Date Display format

To make Thnuderbird display the date in a more readable format, I made the following customizations:

In the prefs.js added these lines:

user_pref(“mail.ui.display.dateformat.default”, 2);
user_pref(“mail.ui.display.dateformat.thisweek”, 4);
user_pref(“mail.ui.display.dateformat.today”, 0);

just to have a more compact date for the last week messages.

Then to have the date in my locale it_IT, you need something like this:

export LC_TIME=it_IT.UTF-8

and the trick is done!
The usage of [...]

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 [...]

Thunderbird or Shredder and Lightning compatibility

Under Ubuntu, if are you using the latest version of Thunderbird from the PPA (rebranded as Shredder), you may encounter some problems with the Lightning plugin, especially if you are using the 64 bit version.

For example, with Shredder 3.0.6 you have to use the Lightning plug-in version 1.0b1 and not the latest 1.0b2.

For the X86_64 [...]

Vodafone Mobile Connect for Linux

If you have a Vodafone Internet Key and you don’t want to get crazy configuring it, use this really fine package: Vodafone Mobile Connect from Betavine Forge, a Vodafone Group R&D Lab.

It has nice features like:

statistics about transferred bytes (rx/tx)
sending SMS
choosing your preferred network settings (gprs, umts, preferred)
nice Python GUI
automatic detection of your Internet Key
(not [...]

Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 on HP EliteBook 8530p - All is fine!

After reading this interesting post on Phoronix about the great increase of performance between ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10, I finally convinced myself to make the upgrade.
My first concern was about the ATI driver, which gave me some trouble with 9.04.
Anyway after a good backup, I started the upgrade, and in almost 2 hours I was [...]

Shiretoko IS Firefox, it’s only a User Agent issue

On my Ubunty Jaunty I’ve started to use the latest Firefox build using this PPA:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
but the Ubuntu Mozilla Team has decided to rebrand it as Shiretoko, and this seems to break some sites which relies on the User Agent string. Using the User Agent Switcher add-on for Shiretoko, ops… Firefox, is a [...]

Testing Drivel

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