Armin Coralic

Some of you may or may not be familiar with chroot, for those who are familiar with chroot good job and for those that aren’t shame on you. Just kidding please read this for some more info about chroot.
Now that we all know what chroot is, maybe it could be fun to create an chroot environment, and to make it more exciting we are not creating an x86 but an arm processor environment Read more…

Ever wanted to minimize a window to system tray even if it could not buy it self? If so then alltray http://alltray.trausch.us/ is what you want. Read more…

I installed my new laptop with the latest Ubuntu after that I downloaded Eclipse zip and unzipped it. I started the Eclipse and wanted to install some updates and plugins when I found out that the windows where not working properly. Windows would not refresh right and also all buttons on popup windows where not responding. Read more…

As you may know there is a new OS coming, it’s nothing special it’s just a striped linux(ubuntu) with a browser on top of it. Although it sounds small and stupid I think some people can benefit from it! Read more…

Couple of days ago i needed to connect digital projector and an second screen to my laptop. I found out that when you have an nvidia graphics card you can use a nice graphical utility to do this instead of manual approach with xorg.

Just install:

and then start with:

With this tool you are able to change settings, detect external displays and attach them very easily. This settings tool helped me so I thought I would just spread the word.

Everyone knows this but I have to say it again, DONT forget to backup your stuff. Because if you don’t you could end up spending valuable time recovering or repairing things like I had to. I will spare you the details what went wrong here that made it necessary to repair my /DEV, but the head problem was that I could not login with SSH and that terminal was not starting properly. This was happening because some of the items in /DEV where gone. To repair those tings this is what I did. Read more…

When I was working with VirtualBox and Vmware server I found out that if I enabled my hardware virtualization everything would freeze. So how com?

You have probably heard about kvm (kernel-based Virtual Machine) that is available in Ubuntu. It’s used for creating virtual machines in ubuntu. It works nice but I wanted to use Vmware server, and this is where things go down. Read more…

Canonical has released the new version of Ubuntu. You can find more information about the release here. For those who want to download the CD go here.

I need to find time to switch my 8.04 to 8.10.

When you are behind a ISA server in let’s say business network you can use Firefox to just surf the net. Because Firefox detects can detect the proxy settings and it will trow you the login screen. But when you need to be able to update your Ubuntu from that network or just proxy your whole Ubuntu PC/laptop you can use NTLMAPS to accomplish that.

What NTLMAPS actually does is connects to the ISA server and sets up a local proxy. By setting your Ubuntu to use the local proxy you are acutely surfing trough the proxy.

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Finally 64 bit Linux users can enjoy Flash without ndiswrapper. Adobe has showed us some mercy and they made a native Flash 10 for 64 bit platform for Linux. On this moment it is only an alpha version but it seems to work quite nice.

Here are the installation instructions from Adobe it self:

Release notes can be found here.
Direct download here.