I haven’t been blogging for quite some time. Don’t need me to tell you that huh? Many things happened during my “away time”. I’m now in a new company, working as a developer this time. boy, It’s great to have hands on with code again! Python code in fact. I’m paid to code in Python! [...]

I’ve upgraded both my PCs, at home and at the office, to Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). I have to say that my initial impression is, a bit rough on the edges. I’m always looking at the little things so my complaints might be on things that are less important to most of you.
First of all [...]

I can’t decide which one is better, the release of Ubuntu 7.10 or the announcement of Nokia’s N810 Internet Tablet (QWERTY FTW!). It’s a good day for Linux (and Gnome!) indeed :)

The title says it all! ShipIt is still closed right now but it says that it’ll be back soon to ship Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) CDs free of charge!

Yes people the Ubuntu 7.10 Beta (along with Kubuntu) is already out, that means the final release is less than a month away (Scheduled for October 18th). Quick highlights:

Dark chocolaty Brown background. A homage to Dapper Drake. It’ll be the first thing I change after installation along with the rest of the themes. Sorry, but [...]

Recently I installed Compiz Fusion to add some ‘bling’ to my desktop. It does look pretty nice, drop shadows, wobbly windows, animations here and there, burning windows, etc. Sadly I found out that despite the eye candy it does not really add anything to the desktop. Here are some of my criticism regarding desktop effects:
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This is a simple guide to install and setup SmartSVN in Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn). You’ll need to have Java-6-Sun already installed first since it won’t run on GCJ. I don’t know if it’ll work on gcj or not.
Download SmartSVN

Please download the ‘Generic’ archive from the SmartSVN download page (currently the latest version is 3.0.1).
Extract [...]

Problem: On Ubuntu, Eclipse freezes randomly
Analysis: Eclipse is always loaded using GIJ despite having sun-java-6 set up
Solution: Add sun-java-6 JVM path to /etc/eclipse/java_home

Open the terminal and type this:
# sudo gedit /etc/eclipse/java_home

Add the line “/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun” on top of the list
Save and Exit
Restart Eclipse

Download python-django 0.96 Ubuntu package from Launchpad (Gutsy)

This is a how to/guide on setting up a Django development environment on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) using Eclipse and PyDev. Here I assume that you start with a fresh install of Feisty, please adapt accordingly.
Install Eclipse and Django
Open the terminal and type these:

# sudo apt-get install eclipse
# sudo apt-get install python-django

Or you can just [...]