Radu Cotescu

Chat on Facebook from Pidgin

Radu — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:06:06 +0000

After Facebook announced its XMPP chat protocol support I decided to give it a try and use it since I already used Pidgin as my instant messaging client. The settings are simple but somehow the average user finds them after some tedious Google searches. Here are the steps you should follow for setting up Facebook’s [...]

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How to install VMware Server on 2.6.32 kernels

Radu — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:41:10 +0000

Recently I have updated the script and the patch used for installing VMware Server on the 2.6.30 and 2.6.31 kernels to include support for the 2.6.32 release as well. Also I have modified the script so that now the VSOCK module compiles and loads perfectly into the running kernel. All the needed instructions can be [...]

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How to install OpenOffice.org 3.2 on Ubuntu

Radu — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:43:25 +0000

Since I’m against upgrading my systems to Ubuntu 9.10, when it comes to the OpenOffice.org office suite I am stuck with the 3.0 version from Jaunty’s repositories. Therefore, if I want to put my hands on a newer release of OpenOffice the only way to do this is to use the packages provided by Oracle [...]

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How to set Nautilus as the default FTP handler in Linux

Radu — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:03:51 +0000

After I had installed Firefox 3.6 on my Ubuntu machines I noticed that when I would want to open the FTP bookmarks saved in Nautilus those targets would open in tabs from Firefox. The problem with this approach was that I couldn’t edit files (create, update, delete) the way I could with Nautilus. After some [...]

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Save power when using your PC with MicroMiser

Radu — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:52:15 +0000

Some of you might know that the CPUs available these days adjust their frequency according to your computing needs, allowing you to save power by not using the maximum capacity of your processor if there isn’t such a need. Of course, this happens only when your operating system includes the software needed to access this [...]

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How to install VMware Server on 2.6.31 kernels

Radu — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:20:15 +0000

UPDATE: The script should also work with 2.6.32 kernels from version 1.2. Seeing the success I have encountered with the blog post about installing VMware Server on Ubuntu Karmic Koala and helped by Ramon de Carvalho Valle with a better patch regarding the installation of the virtualization server on the newer kernels found in three of [...]

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Our jokes aren’t like your jokes

Radu — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:25:55 +0000

Here’s another one from Intel’s “Sponsors of tomorrow” which I think is actually the geekiest from the series. Similar Posts: Our rockstars aren’t like your rockstars Broken Promises Save power when using your PC with MicroMiser Linux tutorials for Windows users How to fix cursor jumping in Ubuntu Our jokes aren’t like your jokes - © Radu Cotescu

Broken Promises

Radu — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:20:57 +0000

The series is already a classic. You can watch more on www.apple.com/getamac. This one is called “Broken Promises” and as one who has tried Windows 7 I can tell you that the ad is not far away from the truth. Similar Posts: Linux tutorials for Windows users Resetting Windows passwords for every user Our jokes aren’t like your jokes Linux [...]

Put your latest tweet as Pidgin’s status on Ubuntu (Linux)

Radu — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:27:37 +0000

Twitter became a trend nowadays when almost everything important is being found out via this social-networking micro-blogging service. And now with Google’s real time search-results that includes tweets too, Twitter is recognised as a powerful platform by even the Internet’s giant. Since your (and mine too) online presence might include a few tweets a day, [...]

How to install Oracle Database 10g XE and OC4J on Ubuntu

Radu — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:58:17 +0000

Starting to work on my diploma project my setup required that I installed Oracle 10g XE and OC4J. For a while now Oracle has started to offer *.deb packages and to host a repository for Debian-based Linux distributions, which means that they have gained the maturity to be used in enterprise environments. The installation of both [...]