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November 16, 2009

Restoring Nautilus as the default “Open Containing Folder” in Firefox

Using the terminal:

gksudo gedit /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache

Search for: x-directory/gnome-default-handler=

and make sure the whole line reads

x-directory/gnome-default-handler=nautilus-folder-handler.desktop

instead of:

x-directory/gnome-default-handler=Thunar-folder-handler.desktop
x-directory/gnome-default-handler=pcmanfm-folder-handler.desktop;
x-directory/gnome-default-handler=kde4-dolphin.desktop

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November 16, 2009

Restoring Nautilus as the default “Open Containing folder” in Firefox

sudo gkedit /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache

Search for: x-directory/gnome-default-handler=

and make sure the whole line reads

x-directory/gnome-default-handler=nautilus-folder-handler.desktop

instead of

x-directory/gnome-default-handler=Thunar-folder-handler.desktop
x-directory/gnome-default-handler=pcmanfm-folder-handler.desktop;
x-directory/gnome-default-handler=kde4-dolphin.desktop

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November 7, 2009

Red Hat takes on VMware with server virtualization solution


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Red Hat expanded its virtualization product portfolio this week with the launch of its Enterprise Virtualization for Servers platform. The company touts it as an end-to-end solution which includes management tools and a bare-metal standalone hypervisor that can run both Windows and Linux guest operating systems.

Red Hat aimed to become a major player in the virtualization market last year when it acquired Qumranet, the company behind the Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM). Following the acquisition, Red Hat began transitioning its virtualization strategy towards KVM and away from Citrix’s Xen. KVM has strong backing from the upstream Linux kernel development community, making it a natural choice for Red Hat. The company has invested considerable resources to boost KVM’s capabilities and has built robust management tools around the technology. KVM was practically the centerpiece in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4, which was officially released in September.

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November 7, 2009

Google opens up its JavaScript development toolbox to all


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Google is providing the web development community with an intriguing glimpse under the hood at some of the fundamental building blocks of the company’s most popular web applications. The search giant has opened the source code of its comprehensive JavaScript library collection and is making it available to third-party developers for widespread adoption. Google also opened the source code of its own JavaScript compression tools.

The library, called Closure, includes an extraordinarily diverse assortment of capabilities with functionality ranging from JSON serialization to standard user interface widgets. All of the features are cross-browser compatible and can be readily adopted without marginalizing any users. The library consists primarily of helper functions and user interface widgets, many of which are recognizable from popular Google applications.

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November 4, 2009

Terminal commands to keep handy on an unresponsive Ubuntu.

This is an ever growing list of terminal commands to keep handy

  1. sudo apt-get install –fix-broken
  2. sudo dpkg –configure -a
  3. htop
  4. dpkg –get-selections > installed-software (Back up list of installed Software)
  5. dpkg –set-selections < installed-software (Restore previously installed software)
  6. apt-get -u dselect-upgrade (Execute #5)
  7. lshw > lshw.txt (See your system’s hardware info)

October 30, 2009

Apple abandons ZFS on Mac OS X project over licensing issues


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Sun’s ZFS filesystem, which the company has referred to as “the last word in filesystems,” was widely expected to be adopted by Apple for use in Mac OS X. However, support never materialized, and the open source project to port the filesystem was unceremoniously shut down last Friday. The (un)stated reasons at heart seem to be licensing issues, though there are also technological reasons why Apple may want to create its own advanced filesystem.

The ZFS filesystem is perhaps one of the first truly “modern” filesystems based on the concept of “copy on write.” In the case of ZFS, this is done at the block level, so when any block on a disk is going to be modified, a fresh copy of all the data for that block is written to a new block on disk, and the older block can be retained for snapshot purposes. The filesystem is meant to address the needs of ever-growing storage, with features like data integrity, integrated device management, instant snapshots, and facilities to deal with increasing concurrency.

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October 30, 2009

Ubuntu 9.10 brings web sync, faster bootup, GNOME 2.28


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The Ubuntu Linux distribution has received a major update today. The new version, Ubuntu 9.10, will introduce several significant new features and will deliver the latest version of the GNOME desktop environment and other applications.

This is the eleventh release of Ubuntu since the project’s inception five years ago. The distribution has achieved an unprecedented level of popularity in the Linux desktop ecosystem and has attracted a considerable audience. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, touts the new release as its best yet and says that the latest improvements will take the Ubuntu user experience to the next level.

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October 8, 2009

Zaurus

One of my firsts PDAs
The thing on the side was the dial-up modem.

I used to connect with it to the VAX at School

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October 7, 2009

Computer workstation assembly

This weekend I assembled a top-of-the-line workstation for a client.

Core i7
8GB RAM
DP55KG Intel Mother Board
Nvidia Quadro Graphics Card
3 x 500GB HDD
Dual 24" NEC Displays
Corsair Power Supply
Silent Thermaltake case.

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October 7, 2009

Windows 8 a 128 bit Operating System?

That would make Windows a 128 bit wrapper around a 64 bit implementation of a 32 bit extension for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system, originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can’t stand 1 bit of competition.
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