PPA for the latest and greatest Vim
Want to run the latest and greatest Vim on your Ubuntu installation without having to "configure;make;make install" ? Use my Vim PPA: https://launchpad.net/~hackedbellini/+archive/vim
If you don't know how to proceed, take a look at the instructions here: Vim PPA instrictions.
Hope you enjoy!
Update 10/26: If you wish to remove my PPA and return to the official repository version, use ppa-purge.
Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat is out!
Today is the big day! Today is the Perfect 10 day!
Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat has been released. You can download it from here: Download Ubuntu (prefer the use of Torrent links. It's better for you and for the community ;D)
If you are already an Ubuntu User and want to upgrade it, press ALT+F2 and type "update-manager -d". The Update Manager will pop-up with a button "Upgrade to 10.10". Just click it and the upgrade will begin! This is the official and the recommended way of doing the upgrade, as you can see here Upgrade Ubuntu and here Help Upgrade Ubuntu.
Take a look too at the Maverick Meerkat Technical Overview.
After doing a fresh install, or upgrading, if you want to have things like Flash, Java, Multimedia Codecs installed, just go to the Software Center and install the "ubuntu-restricted-extras" package.
Also, find the LoCo Team next to you and go celebrate the Ubuntu 10.10 Releasy Party!
Update 10/11/10: Found an excelente article at OMGubuntu about news in 10.10. Take a look: Ubuntu 10.10 News
PPA-Purge: The best friend for people who lives on Bleeding Edge
If you, like me, love to live on Bleeding Edge, probably you have a lot of PPAs added to your Ubuntu's Software Sources. What's the big problem? Unstable stuff can will crash sometimes.
What to do when you want to return a package (or some packages) from the PPA's version to the Ubuntu's official version (wich is considered to be more stable)? A solution could be removing the PPA entry from the sources.list and manually forcing each package to the version you want. Now think..What if a PPA upgraded something like 50 packages on your system? Will you manually downgrade each one? Will you remember all packages that it upgraded? Now comes the best part...you don't have to do that! Just call your best friend, PPA-Purge!
PPA-Purge will remove any PPA you added from your system and downgrade every package it upgraded with only one command.
How to install:
It's on Marverick's official repository and has been backported to Lucid Lynx. To install, just click here or run the following command:
- sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
How to use:
Just run "sudo ppa-purge [the ppa you want to remove]".
Here are some usage examples. These examples bellow are the output of the command "ppa-purge --help"
- sudo ppa-purge xorg-edgers
- will remove https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa
- sudo ppa-purge -p xorg-testing sarvatt
- will remove https://launchpad.net/~sarvatt/+archive/xorg-testing
- sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
- will remove https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates
Hope you enjoy it as much as I do! It sometimes can be a life-saver 
Ps. The latest version of Ubuntu Tweak has integration with ppa-purge making it even easier to use!
BIOS Update on a Dell computer on Linux
So, you have a Dell Notebook/PC and want to update it's BIOS on Linux, but, all you can find is ".exe" files?
Have a look at this page: Dell Bios Update
The process is simple! Just 3 commands and a file to download (the BIOS in question).
Ps-1. If you are updating a Notebook, make sure it's plugged on a Power Supply, or the BIOS updater will complain =P
Ps-2. Updating the BIOS is something DANGEROUS and may brick you computer! Make sure you know what you are doing before starting.
Workarround for the “Can’t Click on Flash” Bug on Ubuntu 64bits
UPDATE 09/27/2010: Looks like the bug is finally fixed, as you can see here https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nspluginwrapper/1.2.2-0ubuntu6.10.04.1/+changelog. At least on Ubuntu 10.04 and earlier. Hopefully we won't need this workaround anymore..
Since we don't have a native 64bits flash player, using flash on a 64bits Ubuntu installation requires a wrapper. Installing flash by the package flashplugin-installer does that automatically for 64bits users.
But, at least for Firefox (Chrome/Chromium are supposed to be fixed) there's a bug that prevents users clicking on Flash content (ex. Youtube videos). Let's hope that bug gets a fix quickly!
In the mean time, you can use a workaround to get things working normally again! Here is what you do: (these steps were written originally in the description of Launchpad Bug #410407 )
- Press "Alt + F2" and run the command:
gksudo gedit /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer- After the LAST text line, insert that:
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1
Now, restart your Firefox (or the browser you are working in) and see if the issue is gone!
For helping this bug gets fixed, hit the Affects Me button on the bug page to get the developers attention!
Keep your dotfiles in sync with Ubuntu One
Do you have any customized dotfiles (like .vimrc, .bashhrc, .emacs) that you would like to sync between your computers, or simple keep it backed-up for minimizing the risk of loosing then? If you are using Ubuntu One it's easy to do so!
Here is the way I like to do that (If you find there's an easy way, comment it! Suggestions are welcome!)
- In your personal folder, there's a folder called "Ubuntu One". If you can't see that folder, probably you didn't setup an Ubuntu One account yet.
- Create a folder inside it to keep the files. I suggest using "dotfiles".
- Put your "dotfiles" inside that folder. I perfer to put them without the "." prefix, so I can always see them!
- Now, replace the original file with a Symbolic Link to the file inside the Ubuntu One folder. Don't forget to prefix the symlink name with "."
- You're OK now! Ubuntu One should now sync your files and the applications that uses that files will use the symlink ones, that redirects it to the Ubuntu One's folder.
- Don't forget to repeat Step #4 in other computers that syncs with your Ubuntu One's account.
So, what's the great advantage of that? Suppose you have 2 computers, one at home and one at work. You have a high-customized ".vimrc". At work, you make a lot of changes to it. Now, how to get that changes to your home ".vimrc"? You don't have to! Ubuntu One will do everything behind the scenes for you! (Note that you can do the same with your ".vim" folder, so you can keep your vim plugins in sync too).
My Desktop
As one of my first posts, I decided to share with you a screenshot of my desktop, since it's the place I'm most of the time =P
I'm running Ubuntu (version 10.04 - Lucid Lynx) Linux Distro, on a Dell Inspiron 1545. It came pre-installed with Microsoft Windows Vista, but, it never really saw the light of the day!
The OS X-dock-alike that you see in the bottom is the Docky project. If you are interested, you can find information about it's development in here: https://launchpad.net/docky
So, what do you think?
My first post!
This is the first post of my homepage!
I created this website primarily for doing the About Me page, but, I'll use the "blog" option a lot too!
I'll be posting things about Linux, Free Software, Open Source, Ubuntu, Programming Tips, Tutorials and etc. If you like that kind of material, follow us!
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