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  • The World’s Thinnest Wallet

    These are wallet for geeks. I have been using one for the past two months and couldn’t be happier with it. It is really thin.
    Highly recommended.
    http://www.thinnestwallet.com

    Posted via email from Alejandro Cuervo

  • Setting Firefox 3.5 as default browser system wide in ubuntu

    Some applications like TweetDeck don't respect gnome preferred applications settings and continue to use the older Firefox 3.1 instead of the new one 3.5 when opening links.

    This is because

    /usr/bin/firefox is currently pointing (like a shortcut) to

    /usr/bin/firefox-3.0

    To change this to 3.5 enter the following on the command line

    $ sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/firefox-3.5 /usr/bin/firefox

    If you want to change it back:
    $ sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/firefox-3.0 /usr/bin/firefox

    This will work for Firefox 3.5 as well as Shiretoko 3.5
    This will also fix same issues with other Adobe Air applications

  • Setting Firefox 3.5 as default browser system wide in ubuntu

    Some applications like TweetDeck don’t respect gnome preferred applications settings and continue to use the older Firefox 3.1 instead of the new one 3.5 when opening links.

    This is because

    /usr/bin/firefox is currently pointing (like a shortcut) to
    /usr/bin/firefox-3.0

    To change this to 3.5 enter the following on the command line

    sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/firefox-3.5 /usr/bin/firefox

    If you want to change it back:

    sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/firefox-3.0 /usr/bin/firefox

    This will work for Firefox 3.5 as well as Shiretoko 3.5
    This will also fix same issues with other Adobe Air applications

    Posted via email from queleimporta

  • The Gap moves from Windows to Red Hat Linux

    via cnet.com

    Red Hat recently posted an interesting case study on how retail giant The Gap moved from a Unix and Windows based e-commerce infrastructure to one based on Red Hat Linux with support for Microsoft’s Active Directory via LikeWise, a product that improves the management and interoperability of Windows and Linux systems.

    According to the case study, “Gap Inc. Direct needed to revamp its entire end-to-end business technology platform–from the customer-facing front-end system, to the back-end order management application, to the business tools that supported the company’s long-term growth strategy.”

    Platform growth and adding new features were key to the underlying infrastructure and the ability to integrate a heterogeneous environment was the other major hurdle that needed to be addressed. Positive ROI was an added bonus.

    “As far as benefits go, first and foremost, Gap Inc. Direct has realized tremendous cost savings. “The ROI (return on investment) of the Red Hat-Likewise solution is hundreds of thousands of dollars annually once you add the hardware and software savings to the reduced costs of manually auditing our systems. Likewise Enterprise’s compliance enhancements allowed us to expand our use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux,” said Arcuri.

    I’m sure there are many Red Hat Linux wins to be touted, just as Microsoft would happily tell you about their customer successes. What’s interesting here is that Red Hat is actively telling a story that includes a diverse environment and not pushing a myopic, single vendor view of the enterprise.

    Posted via email from Alejandro Cuervo

  • Installing Canon’s ImageCLASS MF4270 SCANNER on Ubuntu 64 bit

    To install the scanner of the multifunctional printer MF4270, do the following.

    cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.alioth.debian.org:/cvsroot/sane login
    cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.alioth.debian.org:/cvsroot/sane checkout sane-backends
    sudo apt-get install libusb-dev
    cd sane-backends/
    ./configure –prefix=/usr –sysconfdir=/etc –localstatedir=/var
    make
    sudo make install
    cp /etc/udev/rules.d/70-libsane.rules ~/
    sudo cp tools/udev/libsane.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/70-libsane.rules
    sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart

    Test sane version, should be 1.x.xcvs

    scanimage -V

    add your self to the scanner group

    logout and then login.

    Done!

    For the Printer part follow this guide:

    https://blog.alejandrocuervo.com/installing-canon-imageclass-mf4270-on-ubuntu-64-bit/

  • REISUB

    To recover from a frozen linux system

    Press and hold down ALT + SysRq (PrintScn) button and type phrase R E I S U B with 1 second interval between each letter.

    Your system will magically recover from the crash and reboot itself.

  • Running Ubuntu 9.04

    I just upgraded to 9.04.

    I have got to say that this is the most solid and polished Ubuntu yet. It Rocks!
    No mayor new features as development was concentrated on stability, reliability and speed. They delivered!

    Upgrade went without issues at all. Even my nvidia dual head setup that was always a problem with upgrades was handled perfectly.

    Zero problems!

    Upgrade took 1.5 hours TOTAL, using the Costa Rica mirror. With the MIT mirror it would have taken 13 hours.

    HIGHLY recommended!

    http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

  • shocked at oracle’s acquisitio…

    shocked at oracle’s acquisition of SUN. Wonder what will happen to MySQL, VirtualBox, OOfice, JAVA?