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was quite amused with this site I came across today: Goosh.org is a browser based shell for Google created by Stefan Grothkopp. You can use this to search across Google’s various services like images, blog search, wiki, news and more. You can use the up and down arrow keys for previous commands and use the tab key for auto-complete (which uses google suggest).
Take Goosh out for a spin: goosh.org
Image by °Florian via FlickrUbuntu’s latest and greatest version, Hardy Heron was released last night. Just couldn’t access the Ubuntu site just after the release. Started downloading the new release a few minutes back, all the download mirrors are either slow or crawling - have to switch to torrents to download.
Get your downloads over at: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
If you’re not too happy with the download speeds from the mirrors, try the torrents over at : http://mirror.cs.umn.edu/ubuntu-torrents/
Hardy Heron is just hours from getting released. Congratulations to the Ubuntu team in advance on getting this release out.
Can’t wait to get a hold of this release. For those of you who’re planning on upgrading to this new version from your existing 7.10 release, here’s a set of handy instructions from ubuntu-tutorials.com to guide you through the update. This article shows you how to go about the upgrade using the update manager
Link: How To Upgrade Ubuntu 7.10 to Ubuntu 8.04
A quick and easy way to tweak your Ubuntu settings. Ubuntu Tweak allows you to tweak your security settings, CD burning properties like overburn and Burn Proof technolog and tweaks for gnome, nautilus and more.
Links:
Get the 32bit version
Get the AMD64 Bit version
Ubuntu Tweak Project Site
If you’re looking for the easiest way to install the PHP Java Bridge in Ubuntu, follow these simple steps:
If you don’t have Java Installed on your machine, enable the multiverse option in your Software Sources and run
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-fonts sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun |
Download the PHP Java bridge deb files from Sourceforge.
Head over to the directory where you’ve downloaded this deb file, and fire the following commands:
sudo apt-get install liblucene-java libitext-java sudo dpkg -i php-java-bridge_4.3.0-1_i386.deb |
Once the php-java-bridge deb file is installed, apache will be automatically restarted. If apache doesn’t restart automatically, you can restart apache with the following command:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart |
How do you check if the PHP Java bridge is installed?
Run the phpinfo() command in php. This should give you the details of the PHP Java bridge extension under the Java Heading. Now you’re ready to run Java code in PHP
Now head over to the following link and check out the second part of the tutorial to get started on PHP and Java.
http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/node/3172
More on the PHP Java bridge over at: http://php-java-bridge.sourceforge.net/
Here’s a cool article I came across showing you how to configure gedit in Ubuntu to become a IDE for PHP / web developers. Tips in this article include ways to customize your display optimially for PHP editing, plugins for performing tasks like beautifying PHP code, tidy HTML, check PHP syntax and much more. It’s worth your while if you’re still looking for a good PHP IDE in Ubuntu.
Link to article: Customizing gedit as a Web Developer’s IDE
If you’re looking for a way to connect to a Windows Machine from Ubuntu using RDP(Remote Desktop Protocol), you can use the Terminal server client - tsclient. To install this in Ubuntu, type in the following in the terminal:
sudo apt-get install tsclient
Once this is installed you can start it by invoking tsclient in the terminal or the Run Applications window (Alt-F2).
OpenOffice has released the latest version of their Office Suite. Here’s how to Install OpenOffice 2.3.0 on Ubuntu.
Deb Installer:
If you’re looking installing from the deb package, here are the instructions once you download the deb file from this link:
sudo apt-get remove openoffice*
tar xzvf OOo_2.3.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz
cd OOo_2.3.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz
cd DEBS/
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
cd desktop-integration/
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
sudo ln -s /opt/openoffice.org-2.3/programs/soffice /usr/local/bin
RPM Installation in Ubuntu
If you’ve already downloaded the RPM version and don’t want to bother re-downloading the deb package, here’s what you do:
Once you’ve got the package downloaded, run the following commands in your terminal :
sudo apt-get install alien
sudo apt-get remove openoffice*
tar xzvf OOo_2.3.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz
cd OOG680_m5_native_packed-1_en-US.9221/
cd RPMS/
sudo alien --scripts --keep-version *.rpm
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
cd desktop-integration/
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
sudo ln -s /opt/openoffice.org-2.3/programs/soffice /usr/local/bin
via: OpenOffice.org 2.3.0 Available Now - Ubuntu Forums
If you’re looking at streamlining the usage of wine on your Linux box, checkout Wine-doors. It’s a cool software which makes installation of Windows software easy - just click and it’ll download and install, especially the usual stuff like IE, DirectX and some games.
They have a deb installer which works great on Ubuntu. The initial setup took around 5 minutes when I first started up Wine-doors.
Wine-doors is an application designed to make installing windows software on Linux, Solaris or other Unix systems easier. Wine-doors is essentially a package management tool for windows software on Linux systems. Most Linux desktop users are familiar with package management style application delivery, so it made sense to apply this model to windows software.
Be warned that you still need a legal Windows license if you install Win-doors, since it uses windows components and install the Microsoft dll packs which are available in the package manager!
Link: Wine-doors
If you’re looking for ways to speed up your Ubuntu installation, here a link you’d find useful. Please remember to reboot after you tweak - or you’ll end up having to reinstall your OS from scratch
Link: Optimize Ubuntu Feisty Fawn for Speed - Tips for a faster Ubuntu machine! - Softpedia
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