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Ferry Boender

Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.

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Archive for February 2008

Disable Ubuntu command not found

Ubuntu 7.10 has this feature where, if you mistype a command on the shell, it’ll bother you with useless information about how you can install that application: tiagoboldt@Niath:~$ gedit The program ‘gedit’ is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install gedit bash: gedit: command not found tiagoboldt@Niath:~$ It’s pretty annoying […]

Transmission 1.x on Ubuntu 7.10

For some reason Ubuntu 7.10 has an ancient version of Transmission. Version 0.74 or somesuch. Unfortunately, that version of Transmission contained some bugs so it’s blocked by certain bittorrent trackers. In order to install a more recent version: You can download a more recent version from the gutsy backports package pool. Uninstall transmission: sudo aptitude […]

VeeDee-Eyes.com: VirtualBox VDI images for download

VirtualBox has been getting more and more attention as of late. It is vastly superior to other virtualization programs due to the simple fact that it actually runs on my system. All the others either don’t install (VMWare), crash (QEMU), or are a real bitch to set up properly (Xen). VirtualBox is Open Source, easy […]

Run mobile Midlets on your PC

In anticipation of my new phone (a Sony Ericsson W910i), I decided to spend some time finding various Java Midlets which I need for the phone. I was looking for a decent calculator, translator, dictionary and a E-book reader. I wanted to try the applications, but since I don’t have the new phone yet, I […]

DVTM – dynamic virtual terminal manager

I do a lot of remote UNIX administration on various servers and even some desktop machines. This usually means that I’m doing a lot of SSHing into machines, often opening multiple sessions to the same machine at the same time. It quickly becomes tedious to keep having to type ‘ssh fboender@some.machine.com‘ four times in order […]

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