By JortK on January 29, 2009
In Ubuntu the default text editor is vim. I can imagine that you want to use for example nano or ed. This is a very small how to on how to edit your default text editor in Ubuntu so you can edit for example your crontab file with your favorite text editor: 1. Open a [...]
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By JortK on January 25, 2009
Yesterday I started an old Ubuntu Vmware machine to get some code I developed on that machine. There was only one problem, I couldn’t remember the password! I found a way how you can recover your password in a easy way: 1. Boot your system. 2. When your system is booting, press the ESC button [...]
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By JortK on October 4, 2008
Just some days ago Google launched Picasa 3 for Linux! Several performance improvements, improved Linux desktop integration, integration with camera detection features in Gnome, automatic web sync, a greatly-improved collage tool, a powerful retouching tool, and an intuitive text tool that’s both fun and useful, A full list of all the changes can be found in the [...]
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By JortK on July 26, 2008
Today when I had a look at the buglist of Ubuntu, I’ve noticed the first bug ever reported to the Ubuntu development team: Microsoft has a majority market share Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix. Non-free software is holding [...]
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