Today I’ve received an e-mail from Google telling me that they launched the new beta for linux of their browser Google Chrome. It’s been a while since they first launched a version for Windows.
As you might expect, I’ve downloaded and installed this brand new version of Chrome for Linux and I installed on my Ubuntu [...]
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Google Chrome for Linux
[SOLVED] The kvm-qemu virtual machine ignores shutdown and reboot
These days I’ve been playing with KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine). All started with a kernel upgrade and VMWare Server stop working, and getting lots of errors when executing vmware-config.pl while recompiling the modules.
Anyway, what matters is that I’ve migrated a couple of virtual machines from VMWare Server 2 to qemu-kvm.
One of the virtual machines ignored [...]
How to get the UUID of a disk or partition in Ubuntu
Sometimes it can be very useful, and even necessary, to know the UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) of a disk or partition in Linux.
Nowadays the configuration for mounting disk partitions on linux (the file /etc/fstab) uses the UUID instead of the device name (/dev/hda1, /dev/sda1 …).
If you need to know which is the UUID of a [...]
PHP amazingly improves itself
This was me, looking how to install PHP 5.3 in the new Ubuntu Karmic, because using the new functionality of late static binding will simplify my code, and I’ve found something amazing. A new feature that was missing in PHP, but they have included in PHP 5.3…
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It’s amazing how [...]
Installing Firefox 3.5 in Ubuntu
In order to install Firefox 3.5 in Ubuntu (before Canonical update the official repositories) is as follows:
First you should add following line in /etc/apt/sources.list (in order to edit this file you will need admin privileges, aka run as root):
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/fta/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
Then, we should run following command to validate previous repository and make apt-get to [...]
Installing Canon PIXMA iP2600 printer in Ubuntu 9.04 64-bits
While I was in UK, I bought a Canon PIXMA iP2600 printer. It was not expensive at all and the ink was not as expensive as other printers, so I though it would be a good purchase for the price.
The thing is that when I tried to install the printer in Ubuntu 64-bit, there were [...]
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