Posts Tagged ‘ubuntu’

The tipping point for Firefox and Ubuntu

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4 Aug 2009

The tipping point for Firefox and Ubuntu is finally here.
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I have been an evangelist for Firefox and Ubuntu for quite a few years now. The obsession with Firefox started quite a long time ago, when I was in college. Linux too hit the right notes then, but Ubuntu itself came in later, specifically when I [...]

Slicehost : Setting up outgoing mail and Google Apps (postfix)

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17 Feb 2009

We just moved to SliceHost recently and have been trying to get the server up and running. Every thing was super cool, but getting outgoing email to start working was a bitch.
What happens is that our poor little sendmail tries to be smart and deliver as much mail internally as possible. So even though the [...]

Fixing ‘Could not determine fully qualified name’ issue on localhost

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5 Feb 2009

Whenever you setup Ubuntu on a new machine, every apache restart always ends up with a silly error which goes something like :
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
Other than the fact that it is slightly irritating, it is usually harmless.
But if you still want to get [...]

20 sureshot steps to install Ubuntu from USB

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24 Aug 2008

Like people, machines too need love.
When you get a new machine, you think to yourself that this time you will not dump that old machine. It had served you well for so long and it doesn’t deserve to get old and die in the store room.
But invariably, it always happens. The machine just lies there [...]

Coming Soon : Ubuntu Gutsy

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4 Oct 2007

Finally, after the long wait, the next version of Ubuntu is about to come out. Then, I’m sure the sound will start working on this one…

The sure shot way to run Flash 9 on Linux (Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn)

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1 Oct 2007

It has been a couple of months since I moved from a standard windows os to Ubuntu on my new laptop, and most of the time I’m pretty satisfied. Except for three issues which just wouldn’t get sorted out.
The first one is sound. There is absolutely no sound on this machine. It worked fine [...]

Remove nginx from Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn (7.04)

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30 Sep 2007

I was trying my hand at ruby the other day, and decided to try it out with nginx. However, after the initial trial, I decided to get rid of nginx. But aptitude failed to get rid of it, and returned the following error message :
root@linox: ~# aptitude remove nginxReading package lists… DoneBuilding dependency treeReading state [...]


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