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  • Ubuntu 10.04 on my Netbook

    Back when I got my very own netbook, the first thing I did was installing Ubuntu 9.10 NBR on it. The experience was phenomenal: Just about everything worked out of the box with a few minor exceptions. So I saw nothing really stopping me from upgrading to 10.04 when it finally arrived last Thursday.

    Well, nothing except for the Austrian mirror hopelessly hammered by requests and therefor unusably slow. Since I had to get up at 0500 in the morning on Friday, I had to skip the update and hope for some more speed on Friday afternoon. Well, not so much. In the end I just went with the main server and managed to update the system. It took a couple of hours but there was virtually no user interaction required (which really helps when you try to play MW2 at the same time ;-))

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    2010/05/01 at 18:13:47

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  • New "Light" theme for Ubuntu

    Seems like Ubuntu is finally about to dump the primarily brown theme it has been using for the last ... well, since its first release. On the equally new brand page you can find a screenshot for each variant of the theme (dark and bright) as well as the new logo. Personally, I think the new look is really nice, judging from the screenshots I saw (Putting it on my netbook would kind of defeat the purpose of that devices ;-)). It appears to me far more mature and slightly more "professional" than the previous "Human" theme. 

    What I don't like, or at least haven't come around liking, is the new window-button order (the buttons you see in the upper left corner of each window in these screenshots): For me, the action I use the most on any given window is the "close" action. And this is just easiest to reach when positioned in one of the outer corners. Perhaps has a patent on having the close button in the top right corner and it being red ... who knows.

    If you want to know more without installing it, Ars Technica has some nice hands-on article. 

    Now I just have to find some not-used notebook with an Intel chip that I could put this onto :-/

    [via arstechnica.com]

    2010/03/06 at 23:28:21

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  • Geoserver with OpenJDK on Ubuntu? I guess not

    Or at least not for now. Today I had to install Geoserver on a new Ubuntu 8.04 server within a current Tomcat (6.0.18) for a colleague and was greeted by a nice error message related to casting and the javax.imageio package (or earlier on with a ClassDefNotFound exception related to the same package). The problem here seems to be that the stable Geoserver 1.6.x is not really compatible with OpenJDK yet.

    So for now the fastest way to get it working again (that is, if you don't absolutely require OpenJDK) to move back to the old Sun Java 6 package by first installing "sun-java6-jdk" and then by switching to it using update-alternatives --config java.

    At first I thought I had to install some external libraries and miserably failed to install the jai_imageio binary package thanks to the package being broken and naturally Sun has to have internal checksums so that you can't easily fix this. But luckily this has become a non-issue with the move back to Java6 for now, but I'm really curious if I just messed up something there or the missing jai_imageio package was really the problem here. I guess, this is a problem for later, now that I have a workaround in place ;-)

    2008/08/18 at 13:44:44

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  • SSH Commands on Ubuntu Servers

    Fighting with environment variables via SSH on an Ubuntu server? You're definitely not alone there. Normally when running ssh <server> <command> the user's ~/.bashrc should be sourced (if the user has Bash as shell) but for some reason, none of my variables got loaded.

    After quite some googling, I found this post that described the same problem I had but also contained a simple solution in the comments section: Actually reading the .bashrc ;-) Ubuntu's default .bashrc starts with following line:

    [ -z "$PS1" ] && return

    The problem is now, that this condition is actually true via ssh <command>. To solve this you have more or less 2 options: Add you stuff before this line or remove this line.

    Just stupid that it took me about an hour to find this problem ;)

    2008/01/05 at 14:45:02

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