Game Boy Advance with SuperCardSD under Ubuntu
Posted by Adi | Filed under English
My dear friend Ion Savin has just returned from Tokyo and he brought me a brand new Game Boy Advance SP togheter with a SuperCardSD (bougth from Germany as the Japanese are not happy with such things that enable home brew games).
Game Boy Advance SP is designed as an independent platform and unless you are [...]
Tags: Ubuntu
Ubuntu 8.04 Release Party - 7 Mai - Cluj-Napoca
Posted by Adi | Filed under Uncategorized
Tags: Ubuntu
Linux Professional Institute Certification Level 1
Posted by Adi | Filed under Free Software
I just received an email, which informed me that I obtained the LPIC-1 certification. LPIC-1 is an entry-level certification in Linux skills and knowledge. Even if its name says it is an entry-level certification it wasn’t easy to pass the 2 exams required for obtaining the certification.
The next step is to obtain the Ubuntu Certified [...]
Tags: Free Software, Networking, Ubuntu
1st April - Deny of Service Joke
Posted by Adi | Filed under Free Software
Today I was trying to play a joke at work to my colleagues, who are not using Ubuntu and I found a very simple „anoying joke” for Windows XP.
Open 2 terminals.
In the first one run a ping at 0.2s with a big packet size. It is important to ping at this small interval. For [...]
Tags: Free Software, Networking, Security, Ubuntu
Document Freedom Day - 22 Marite Cluj-Napoca
Posted by Adi | Filed under Free Software
În data de sambătă, 22 Martie 2008, Grupul pentru Software Liber din
Cluj-Napoca va organiza o serie de prezentări cu ocazia Document Freedom
Day.
Evenimentul se va desfășura în cadrul Universității Tehnice din Cluj-Napoca,
str. Barițiu nr. 26-28, sala 40, începând cu orele 11.00
În cadrul acestui eveniment vor fi prezentate cele 2 soluții importante de documente deschise: ODF (OpenOffice.org, [...]
Tags: Free Software, Ubuntu
12.01.2008 - Prezentare Linux în cadrul Universităţii Babeş-Bolyai
Posted by Adi | Filed under Free Software
Vino să participi la prezentarea sistemelor de operare Ubuntu Linux 7.10 şi Kiwi Linux 7.10 precum şi a proiectului One Laptop per Child.
Acesta este primul eveniment susţinut de Grupul Pentru Software Liber în cadrul Universităţii Babeş-Bolyai din Cluj-Napoca.
Evenimentul va avea loc în cadrul Universităţii Babeş-Bolyai din Cluj-Napoca, str. Teodor Mihali, nr 58-60, în data de [...]
Tags: Free Software, Ubuntu
CPU Frequency Scaling in Ubuntu
Posted by Adi | Filed under Free Software
The default Ubuntu installation of cpufreq-selector allows only root users to modify the CPU frequency scaling policy. This is a security measure and the CPU monitor applet can read only the current CPU frequency and policy.
You can enable changing CPU frequency and scaling policy for all users by setting the user sticky bit on /usr/bin/cpufreq-selector
sudo [...]
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