Vlad Nistor |

February 14th, 2010 |

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I’ve been using OpenOffice with my Debian sid installation for quite some time now and I must say it’s one of the best pieces of open-source software out there. I was excited to find they have just released verion 3.2 of the wonderful document creation suite and was waiting for the official release from Debian, [...]
Vlad Nistor |

December 24th, 2009 |

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Yes, the currently closed beta testing Heroes of Newerth game has opened up it’s doors for the holidays, allowing everyone to join in the fun. There are 43.5 hours remaining as of time of writing so if you haven’t gotten your hands on a key yet you should hurry while the doors are open.
If you [...]
Vlad Nistor |

December 20th, 2009 |

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Page setup in Evolution
Many people are annoyed by the fact that when you click to print something in many programs, Evolution – the very popular email client from Novell for example, the Page Setup tab in the Print dialogue where you would normally select the orientation is greyed out, leaving you unable to change [...]
Vlad Nistor |

December 13th, 2009 |

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While I haven’t posted in a long time, testing out Ubuntu development builds has been a constant. I have so far gone from Jaunty Beta through all the Karmic Alphas, then the Beta, the RC and the Gold without much hassle. The reason I decided to go all the way through the Karmic schedule was [...]
Vlad Nistor |

August 5th, 2009 |

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A year after Mark Shuttleworth announced Cannonical would release the source-code to their Launchpad platform, it is finally here. For those of you who don’t know, Launchpad is where Ubuntu gets built – the Soyuz component building all the packages for the distro and those in the PPAs (including mine); translated – the Rosetta component; [...]
Vlad Nistor |

July 29th, 2009 |

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S2 Games
Phoronix Media, in collaboration with S2 Games are giving away free beta-testing keys for their much-hyped upcoming Heroes of Newerth title. They started a week ago and had 400 to give away but S2 was nice enough to supply more, bringing the number up to over 1000. Phonorix reported yesterday it still had [...]
Vlad Nistor |

July 25th, 2009 |

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For a long time installing Adobe Flash player in 64 bit Linux was a pain in the but; not anymore. Earlier this year (Feb), Adobe launched a pre-realease alpha of the famous proprietary format player for 64 bit OSes. Because of this I decided to move from 32 bit Ubuntu and I love it. The [...]
Vlad Nistor |

July 23rd, 2009 |

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The fourth release candidate for the .31 Kernel is now out; it fixes a few bugs discovered within the last week (binutils, ccache, compiler) which were outside the Kernel but resulted in a broke build, Linus Torvalds announced. Along with those more important bugs there were a few small fixes here and there, dominated by [...]
Vlad Nistor |

July 20th, 2009 |

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Ever since I started using Ubuntu with its slick Gnome desktop I’ve wondered about widgets. I remembered seeing them on KDE & Vista and they looked interesting, but I never was curious enough to actually inquire about it in Gnome. But last night I did and found a couple of possibilities (there probably are more) [...]
Vlad Nistor |

July 2nd, 2009 |

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As I mentioned in my previous article Pidgin 2.5.8 was launched and it has now hit Karmic so with that source in hand I built packages for Jaunty, Intrepid and Hardy in my PPA. You can have a look at the changelog here.
PPA address: https://launchpad.net/~vladnistor/+archive/ppa
Instructions for adding my PPA to your sources list.
Update: It appears [...]