Tag Archive | "Ubuntu"

Global, Mac-like Menubar on GNOME with gnome2-globalmenu

Monday, February 16, 2009

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Caught the introduction of this story over on OS News — apparently folks have been voting on the addition of a global, application-context sensitive menubar in Gnome for a while. The design of the bar is very similar to the way the global bar in Mac works. For those that don’t know, there is a [...]

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Setting up Apache Tomcat 6.x and ZK in Ubuntu

Monday, October 27, 2008

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Apache Tomcat is the name in JSP, and you’ll need to get a copy before being able to try out the many cool web applications and frameworks out there (like ZKoss’s ZK). Finding a development need to run JSP pages (and wanting to try out ZK), I decided to get the latest Tomcat version [...]

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Linux Alternatives to Apple’s Time Machine

Thursday, October 23, 2008

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Have you ever caught yourself drooling over Apples Time Machine, but just couldn’t bare jumping ship to MacOS X? You are in luck because you have a few projects to choose from. Most of these applications use rsync (a filesyncing program for *nix) and cron (a task scheduler) to mimic the characteristics of [...]

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Quick Printer Setup with system-config-printer

Friday, August 22, 2008

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After being quite fed up with the cups web-admin app, I decided to go on a little hunt. I’m sure the CUPS admin page is great for some people but you never quite know if the back button will wreak havoc on your crazy LDAP-authenticated, SSL-encrypted setup that shares a printer from the basement [...]

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