20100707 ArchLinux: looking good

It’s been approximately two years since I changed to using Ubuntu for my desktop needs. Before, I was using Mac OS, but I was getting increasingly annoyed with it and the direction it was heading for, specially since Leopard and was released. I have learnt a lot with Ubuntu, and I think they’re doing a [...]

20100705 Fixing the Netgear WPN311 system freezes in Ubuntu

We had this long-time problem with the Netgear WPN311 wireless cards which seemed to go and come back intermittently with each kernel revision: if we used intensively the wireless, the computer would freeze. As in totally frozen (you couldn’t even go back to a console and restart the X or something from there). With Ubuntu [...]

20100629 Diff’ing with RapidSVN

I thought I had to enter “diff” in the diff tool field, but I was wrong: it didn’t work. Apparently RapidSVN expects a graphical application instead of a text-mode application that runs on a terminal. But fear not! There’s an application for this. It’s called meld. So… sudo apt-get install meld And in RapidSVN → [...]

20100605 Where is the JDK!?

/usr/lib/jvm/ has all the JDK’s you might have installed. For example, these are the contents of my /usr/lib/jvm/ folder: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   14 2009-11-01 11:19 java-1.6.0-openjdk -> java-6-openjdk drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2009-08-05 09:59 java-6-openjdk lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   19 2010-05-03 20:27 java-6-sun -> java-6-sun-1.6.0.20 drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 2010-06-05 [...]

20100603 Firefox 64 bit (Ubuntu)

I wanted to test the latest Firefox but for the love of whoever you want, I wasn’t able to find a 64bit build in Mozilla’s site. I could choose between lots of languages, but I couldn’t choose between 32 and 64 bits– their detection system insisted in providing the 32 bits builds. Bad, bad UI [...]