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Sorry for downtime

By Dan | Published: 01/26/2009
Eleven days ago the server on which this blog is hosted went down. The server’s OS (RHEL 5) went into kernel panic. Reason is unknown and probably will remain that way unfortunately. For the last eleven days, I spent most of my time recovering what I could from the server. MySQL databases have been fully [...]
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Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) resolution workaround

By Dan | Published: 07/27/2008
I don’t know if this is a general problem or it affects only some particular video cards but I know that my old FX5500 didn’t had a chance. After the installation process of Ubuntu itself (all went ok) when the login box appeard for the first time I noticed that the resolution was 640×480. That was [...]
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Ubuntu 8.04 alias Hardy Heron has launched !

By Dan | Published: 04/24/2008
As we all know, Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) is now available. I can’t wait to install the new release as I am a huge fan of Ubuntu. I still remember my first encounter with Ubuntu a few years ago. A good friend of mine handed me a copy of Ubuntu he received in his mail. [...]
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Ubuntu alternative for FeedReader3

By Dan | Published: 04/20/2008
I was writing a post a couple of days ago about how great FeedReader3 is. It’s definitely a neat tool when it comes to concentrating all your subscriptions in one place and handle them as you like. But what happens when you are using Ubuntu or other linux distros ? Unfortunately most of the alternatives [...]
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