Monitor the UPS in Ubuntu with Network UPS Tools
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software
I just found this great project called Network UPS Tools or nut. It comes with fully loaded with tools for monitoring local UPS, remote UPS and displaying the status via a weg page.
My installation is using an Must PowerAgent 1060, connected via USB.
Installing the software is easy, just use the magic words:
sudo apt-get install nut nut-cgi
To [...]
Unity-2D on Ubuntu 10.10
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
I have tried and tested Ubuntu 11.04 during its development cycle and also after the final release and I really liked Unity 2D. It was the first shell that I did not felt the need for major customization. The fact that external monitor support is again broken, middle click emulation is no longer a default [...]
GMail Offline in Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10, 11.04
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Planet Ubuntu
Since offline storage for web browsers is still not standard across major web browser it looks like the only way to use GMail offline on latest Ubuntu version (10.04, 10.10 and 11.04) is to install Google Gears extension for Firefox and install Firefox 3.6.
Here is a short how-to:
* Download Firefox 3.6
* Extract the [...]
Mingle with GTKSourceView
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
In the last years, Gedit was my trustful companion. It does not has all the bling-bling of Anjuta or Eclipse but with some extra modules, Gedit can be a reputable text editor.
For me, the most important feature of a text(code) editor is syntax highlighting and Gedit together with GTKSourceView offers a nice syntax highlighter.
Now, if [...]
RSS Feed for Ubuntu translations that needs review
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
After announcing the „alpha” version on the Ubuntu Translators mailing list, I am also adding this to Ubuntu planet for more feedback.
For the Romanian team I wanted to keep the “needs review” counter somewhere near zero so that new translators will get a quick feedback and will be encourage to add more translations. I received [...]
Passenger and Python and Django and OSQA … first blood
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software
These are just a few notes about my experience with installing OSQA on Nginx with Passenger. I assume you already have passenger installed.
In short:
Step 1: Make sure an Hello world! is working
Step 2: Withing the already working Hello world application, try to execute your application and catch and print any errors.
Step 3: Profit!
The main headaches [...]
Enable “Editable menu shortcut keys” in GNOME
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software
In case you were wondering why and where the Interface tag from gnome-appearance-properties is gone you should start looking at the GNOME bug #592756.
In case you just want that feature back, read this askubuntu.com question and answer.
To make it short just read the ‘Editable menu shortcut keys’ documentation and run the following command:
gconftool –set /desktop/gnome/interface/can_change_accels [...]
