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1	Nokia Acquired Trolltech Trollteck Press Release: The acquisition of Trolltech will enable Nokia to accelerate its cross-platform software strategy for mobile devices and desktop applications, and develop its Internet services business. With Trolltech, Nokia and third party d...	Jan 28, 2008
2	Getting Sun Java 6 On Debian 4.0 With APT Pinning All the noise about Leopard and Java6 last week made me thinking: Does my favorite operating systems include the JDK? And if so, which version? The answer, of course, is that Windows does come with a JRE, but it's at version 1.1; and that Debian come...	Nov 4, 2007
3	Flash Player 9 for 64-Bit Debian 4.0: Here's The Link It took 37 days since I installed 64-bit Debian 4.0 on my amd64 machine, but I've finally gotten Flash Player 9 to work in my browser. There are several reasons for the 37 days delay. The biggest reason is that the procedure I followed, which is the ...	Jul 26, 2007
4	My Firefox, Uh, Iceweasal, Still Does This In Does Your Firefox Do This?, (posted 576 days ago), I showed how the Firefox browser that came with the Linux distribution I was using at the time, Fedora Core 3 (or 4), won't print page headers or footers. Well, since then, on every version of Linu...	Jul 25, 2007
5	Getting Sun Java 5 On Debian 4.0: So Easy First the goods. The official Debian 4.0 contains Sun JDK 5 in its non-free section. To get it, you edit /etc/apt/sources.lis...	Jun 21, 2007
6	Question Of The Day: Sun Java On Debian 4.0 Now that I've switched to Debian 4.0, I'm interested in getting the Sun Java 6 packages installed. If I recall correctly, there was quite a stir during JavaOne when the Ubuntu folks announced that some of Sun's Java products (the JDK, NetBeans and Gla...	Jun 19, 2007
7	Goodbye Fedora, Hello Debian My Fedora 7 Upgrade did not go well (some stupid video driver issue). So I wiped the disk and installed Debian 4.0r0. Now you debian fans out there, especially those who says "You should be running Debian, the truly free operating system," will e...	Jun 19, 2007
8	Tomcat 5 on Fedora Core 6: In Five Easy Steps Have you noticed anything different about this blog in the past 24 hours? I moved it to my newly upgraded Fedora Core 6 workstation yesterday. And I'm happy to report that setting Tomcat up on a Fedora Core 6 is extremely easy. I'll outline the step...	Jan 14, 2007
9	Finally Upgraded To Fedora Core 6 It has been 79 days since Fedora Core 6 was released. I finally got a chance to upgrade my work station from FC5 to FC6. As in the past, I downloaded the FC6 x86_64 DVD using Bittorrent, and started my "try upgrade first, if that doesn't work, do a f...	Jan 10, 2007
10	Getting Files Around: Secure Copy (scp) A question come up today about the best way to get files around between a Mac OS X box and a Fedora Core 6 box: Me: Definitely scp. Him: But I'm not a Unix person. Me: It's just like cp, only better. Him: I'll look it up. (Typed "man scp" in a termi...	Dec 12, 2006
11	AMD64 Easter Egg I mentioned this in one of the round table stand up meetings some months ago, but never got around to blog it. It's a little easter egg program for the AMD64. I saw it here 275 days ago. The reason it took me this long is that I want to clean the pr...	Sep 18, 2006
12	SSH Filesystem When Brian Gilstrap mentioned sshfs to me a couple of weeks ago, I thought "neat." Today, I decided to look into it further. It turns out that it is available from one of the Fedora Core 5 Yum repositories. All I have to do is: [root@gao-2006] # yu...	Aug 15, 2006
13	GNU grep's New Trick I stumbled upon this Linux.com article: GNU grep's new features about a week ago. (No, the StumbleUpon Firefox plugin was not used.) I printed it out but only got a chance reading it on Thursday. It talked about several new features in GNU grep 2.5 ...	Jun 10, 2006
14	Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake): First Impressions (My DSL is down again. Speakeasy will send a new DSL modem. I should be getting it tomorrow or Wednesday. So this blog won't be out in the world for a few more days.) I downloaded and installed Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) on my IBM ThinkPad T30 this...	Jun 5, 2006
15	QEMU: Gentoo Guest Performance It took me 12 days (not months as I previously guessed) but I have an instance of Gentoo installed as a QEMU guest. That includes the time of the initial installation of Gentoo, which went very smoothly due to their superb documentation, the emergence...	May 21, 2006
16	Red Hat, Sun, Java, ... I'm disappointed. I'm really disappointed. My fear three days ago that Sun's new Distro License for Java is not good enough for Red Hat is confirmed in press reports: Brian Stevens, Red Hat CTO (quoted by Gavin Clarke, The Register): According to S...	May 19, 2006
17	JDK On GNU/Linux: All But Fedora Simon Phipps: All that just ended. An unprecedented collection of Debian developers, Ubuntu developers, Sun engineers and Sun lawyers has spent months devising a new binary license for the Java platform, together with the parts for new installers, so ...	May 16, 2006
18	Red Hat To Acquire JBoss Red Hat: Red Hat will acquire JBoss for approximately $350 million in initial consideration, plus approximately $70 million subject to the achievement of certain future performance metrics. The transaction consideration is composed of approximately 40...	Apr 10, 2006
19	Fedora Core 5: The Two Week Review I've been running Fedora Core 5 on my desktop machine for 16 days. I posted snippets of first impressions about two Gnome misfeatures and the screencast utility earlier. As promised, this post summarized my overall impression of the Fedora Core 5 rel...	Apr 9, 2006
20	Screencast Comes To Fedora Core 5 This is an experiment of using the newly available istanbul screencast tool that comes with Fedora Core 5. I'm recording a session of me creating this blog entry with it right now. I'll post a link to the resulting screencast in this link. Update: H...	Apr 4, 2006