Category Archives: Ubuntu
Bluetooth using the gui in Ubuntu
Bluetooth is of course a well-known mechanism for connecting mobile phones and pda’s to computers and laptops. It is low-power, easy to setup, and works out of the box on most systems. Until recently setting up serial over bluetooth in … Continue reading
Pre-loading debconf values for easy installation
Debian’s configuration management might take some getting used to, but after you learn your way around /etc/{default,init.d,} it makes good sense. Now when you have to do the same thing over and over again (ever said yes 25 times to … Continue reading
Connecting Ubuntu client to Cups server
As trivial as its configuration actually is, I find it surprising there is no easy (as in GUI-driven) way to connect your (K)Ubuntu/Debian box to existing Cups infrastructures. Even in (K)Ubuntu 8.10 you need to use Konsole or Terminal. But … Continue reading
Ubuntu .local domain resolving issue’s and iptables prerouting
In the past few days I’ve been helping a new colleague at my current job with getting his development area setup in Ubuntu. Most of us work with Windows, including myself since I’m not working on my laptop but on … Continue reading
Followup on the Belkin F5D8053 and Ubuntu
Seems my previous blog post about the Belkin is found quite often when people search for how to get it to work on Ubuntu in general, also with ndiswrapper. Please note, my post is not about getting it to work … Continue reading
Trying to get the Belkin F5D8053 v3 to work on Ubuntu Hardy without ndiswrapper
Update: I got it working now, see my new post about it. If I look at the Windows driver for my new Belkin F5D8053 it is based on the RT2870 chipset. There is a native driver available for this chipset. … Continue reading
Using VMware player for testing Internet Explorer on Ubuntu
One disadvantage of developing websites/web applications on Unix (in my case Ubuntu) is that it’s hard to test things on Internet Explorer. Yes, you have IEs4Linux but that’s just not the same thing. For real testing with the different versions … Continue reading
AMD64 and 32 bits applications
I wanted Skype on my laptop, stupid me thought it was nice to have 64 bit linux. Many applications don’t seem to be 64 bit ready, one of them is Skype. Good thing there is a –force-architecture flag in dpkg, … Continue reading
Dual screen with docking station using xrandr
A colleague of mine uses the same laptop as I’ve. But he didn’t like the fact that the build-in display is not used when it’s docked in the docking station. He wants to use his laptop LCD as secondary display … Continue reading
Dell Latitude D830 and Ubuntu Feisty (64 bit)
I recently got a Dell Latitude D830 to work on, since I’ll be travelling quite a lot and for that it’s useful to have your development environment with you on the road. The disadvantage is that you can have your … Continue reading