In this case, it’s medibuntu. Or more specifically, their Ubuntu repository. As far as I can tell it’s been down for about a week now and was also down a while back for some time. For anyone who needs to utilize this pretty important resource, there seems to be mirrors out there which I wasn’t [...]
Archive for April, 2010
the system is down
Posted: 21st April 2010 by leftyfb in linux, technology, ubuntuTags: linux, repository, ubuntu
Finally, a remote desktop service for linux that doesn’t require opening firewalls!
Posted: 15th April 2010 by leftyfb in linux, technology, ubuntuTags: control, linux, package, remote desktop, teamviewer, ubuntu
As the topics says, we finally have a remote desktop solution without the need to open ports on a firewall or do reverse tunnel trickery. I’ve been using TeamViewer for a long time now to support my Windows and Mac customers and to remotely control the same at home. Now I have one single solution [...]
This was posted to the Ubuntu Planet by Paolo Sammicheli. I was slightly amused.
So not long ago I noticed that some of my samba shares weren’t working properly. By that, I mean, I could access the main share, but some of the subdirectories were giving me an “access denied” error when trying to traverse them. It was one of those things where it was just an annoyance that [...]
No, unfortunately, not that decision. The decision to use Yahoo has the default search engine in Mozilla Firefox in Ubuntu 10.04 has been changed back to Google. Granted, I could care less what default search engine is used in Firefox. It’s a setting that can be changed in a very easy and user friendly manner. [...]
Songbird halts major support for linux
Posted: 2nd April 2010 by leftyfb in FAIL, linux, technology, ubuntuupdate: Songbird has now been forked and will keep supporting linux! The new project is now Nightingale. As many of you know we’re hard at work on NOFX and the release is looking really good – lots of cool improvements, including video playback. Some of you have noticed that the Linux version has fallen behind, leading to [...]
It’s official, Canonical (Ubuntu) has stopped caring about what its community actually wants and instead will go with the bad decision by it’s design team. Enough has been said about this issue so I’m not going bring up the reasons why this is a bad decision again. There are plenty of blogs, forum posts, polls, the [...]