Category Archives: linux

Ubuntu 10.04 on EEEBox 1501 (towards the perfect media-center)

Posted on August 24, 2010 by littleiffel
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building the perfect media center is a difficult task, as there are many constraints for this task. connectivity with tv, network and other computers which includes a perfect choice of hardware, operating system and drivers. input devices are important as … Continue reading →

Ubuntu One Sync with Phone (SE Hazel)

Posted on August 12, 2010 by littleiffel
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the ubuntu one service is a very nice idea. sync your files easily with multiple computers, easy to setup … easy to use. i use the service for syncing of my contacts, since i always have trouble keeping a contact … Continue reading →

What Browser for Ubuntu? (Firefox vs Chrome vs Opera)

Posted on July 30, 2010 by littleiffel
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Recently I made a small, informal post on Firefox vs Chrome on Ubuntu. This post was mainly inspired by the rumors that using the Windows Firefox in Wine is faster than running the native version on Ubuntu. (more info here) I haven’t … Continue reading →

Install ANDROID Development Tools (ADT) on Ubuntu 10.04 (and Eclipse)

Posted on July 9, 2010 by littleiffel
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I recently installed eclipse 3.6 and Android Development Tools (ADT) on my fresh Ubuntu 10.04 install. I followed the excellent and simple Installation tutorial here. Installing Eclipse is as easy as downloading it from the official Download page (http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/) and extracting it to a desired folder. I chose the Classic Eclipse 3.6 download and I created a folder in my home, called /home/thierry/Applications. Continue reading →

Getting started with VALA

Posted on April 11, 2010 by littleiffel
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While browsing and looking for news in the open source world, I came to find about VALA. A ‘new’ programming language created to design and implement applications for GNOME. VALA has built-in features GObject, GLib,… VALA is translated into C code and apparently it is very efficient C code (benchmarks) So I wanted to dive into VALA and find out more about it…Documentation and blog posts about VALA are rare, except for the official language description page, and even though the people seems to be very active on the project (Version 0.8.0 released in March 2010) the information on it is limited. The standard documentation is rather good online and on the site of VALA may information can be found, however as soon as something goes wrong no information is available. So I want to describe here my experience setting up the environment to compile and run my first VALA program. Continue reading →

Arte+7 Downer (Download and Streamer) for Python and Linux

Posted on April 4, 2010 by littleiffel
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The Arte+7 Downer got inspired from the arte+7 Recorder. However this excellent application is missing some desired features, like saving the description of the downloaded video and the corresponding screenshot. Further to preview a video it is necessary to start the download of the video. Continue reading →

Spreading the Word (Create a Ubuntu based Linux-Distro from Local Repositories)

Posted on March 7, 2010 by littleiffel
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In Chad since January 2009, I was desperately looking for a way to get people to consider Linux as an operating system. 99% of the people still use Windows XP SP2 as primary operating system, mainly because getting hacked versions of Vista is kind of difficult. People use an operating system which is basically 9 years old, with an update SP2 from ????. Continue reading →