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The Next Ubuntu coming…

The next version of Ubuntu is coming soon

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!

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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

((enjoy))

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 [...]

Upgrading from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 on my HP EliteBook 8530p

Here is a report of my upgrade from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 on my HP EliteBook 8530p (model number FU617AW).

The upgrade process went smooth in almost 1 hour of time. There were about 1200 packages to upgrade for about 900MB of download.

Here is a quick report about problems encountered after reboot:

ATI Video Card NOT WORKING. [...]

Ubuntu 8.10 on HP EliteBook 8530p

Back to posting some useful stuff with my new PC, an HP EliteBook 8530p (model number FU617AW).

Ubuntu 8.10 64 bit is working like a charm on it.

My configuration is the following:

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T9400  @ 2.53GHz
4 GB of DDR2 RAM
250GB SATA HDD at 7200 RPM (the model from hdparm -i is ST9250421AS)
Screen 15.4” WXGA [...]

VMware Tools and Linux Kernel 2.6.24

It seems that from Linux Kernel version 2.6.24 the standard VMware Tools shipped with VMware ESX 3.5 (at least) do not compile.

It is necessary to download the Open Virtual Machine Tools and to make the following trick:

# tar -xzf open-vm-tools-*/modules/linux
# cd open-vm-tools-*/modules/linux
# modsrc=”/usr/lib/vmware-tools/modules/source”
# for x in `ls -d v*`
# do
> [...]