Tag Archives: Planet Ubuntu

Samsung ML-1915 with Ubuntu

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Dougie

I picked up a cheap laser printer, a Samsung ML-1915. It isn’t automatically configured by Ubuntu 10.10 as it requires the Samsung Unified Linux Print Driver. The page explains what to do but in synopsis, you need to add the … Continue reading →

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San Diego suggestions

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Dougie

I’ve never been to the US before but I’m going to San Diego this week with work. Although I’m not sure how much free time I’ll have, as I’m there for a few weeks I was wondering if there’s anyone … Continue reading →

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Any colour will do

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Dougie

I hope Dustin Kirkland wont mind me re-posting this but it’s so insightful I felt I must. Poul-Henning Kamp posted this concerning Free BSD development over eleven years ago…

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Twitter vulnerabilities, using Windows, studying and new WordPress themes.

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Dougie

Graham Cluley, a Senior Technology Consultant at Sophos, has a nice blog piece on the Twitter worm from earlier this week. To cut a long story short, he reminds us of the importance of sanitizing inputs. Still, it was more … Continue reading →

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Bash

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Dougie

Two things that improve my bash productivity – stopping the cursor keys inserting characters in vim and history search in bash. Edit ~/.vimrc or /etc/vim/vimrc (for system wide) and add turn off vi compatibility: set nocompatible The latter can be … Continue reading →

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Install web applications locally on Ubuntu

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Dougie

I was talking with someone yesterday who is hacking a WordPress theme together. If you work with web sites, being able to run a site locally allows testing, experimentation, developing new themes and even just checking that a software update … Continue reading →

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Huawei E1550 in Ubuntu 10.04.1

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Dougie

Judging by my server logs, there are lots of people trying to use the Huawei E1550 with Ubuntu. I posted a howto around this time last year but have been getting a lot of mail on it recently so thought … Continue reading →

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Fleshing out an idea

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Dougie

Yesterday, I posted that perhaps we should encourage new users to spend more time in the live environment before they install. I suggested that we do this by means of a welcome application. Generally, people seemed to like the idea … Continue reading →

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Live environments

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Dougie

Update: Apologies if you tried to post a comment, I hadn’t realised there was a problem with the reCaptcha. I might well be miles off the mark (I haven’t researched anything) but I’ve a feeling most of our new users … Continue reading →

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Maverick Meerkat – Simples

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Dougie

Watching TV earlier, it occurs to me that we really need to link the next release with the unbelievably popular Compare the Meerkat adverts. I can’t be the first person to have thought this – seriously this is not a … Continue reading →

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