Make VIM More Coder Friendly

Add these to ~/.vimrc

set tabstop=2
set shiftwidth=2
set expandtab
set autoindent
set number

Me and Ubuntu rejoined

It was almost 1 year ago that I got disappointed with Ubuntu Linux; After more than 4 years that I had been using it as my first Desktop operating system I left it for other distributions. They become somehow against Gnome 3 shell and developed their own Unity. The unity was not as light as Gnome 3 and was not supporting all hardware (in compare to Gnome 3 shell).
Since then I have used several distributions. Debian (my favorite server distribution), Fedora and Linux mint.
After 1 year I installed Ubuntu 12.04 2 days ago and I can say they have solved hardware compatibility issues and it is not that much sluggish as it used to be.

Still I do believe Gnome 3 is more user friendly and they have their own philosophy in desktop, but Unity's sidebar is still originating in MS Windows taskbar.

JNI + NetBeans

JNI Tutorial in NetBeans


Linux: http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/cnd/beginning-jni-linux.html
Windows: http://cnd.netbeans.org/docs/jni/beginning-jni-win.html

I am not alone anymore!

A new developer joined the MyPasswords project. He has already added some cool features to the project that you will see in the new version.
Dan is a brilliant programmer and we can prove that MyPasswords is the best password manager for Linux and also other OSs.

rdesktop Remote Desktop from Linux To Windows

Have you ever tried connecting from a Linux machine to a Windows server using rdesktop?
If you get the error:

ERROR: recv: Connection reset by peer

Solution:
Go to the Windows machine's Configure Remote Desktop and choose:

Allow Connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop 

 

use -f switch for full screen mode. You can press CTRL + ALT + ENTER to exit from full screen.

Love Lock is so close!

MyPasswords 1.0 defeats KeePassX

I can't believe but I heard about an article in LinuxFormat yesterday which reviewed 8 password manager software for Linux. MyPasswords is the 7th candidate and the final winner following by KeePassX.

I'm really exited and try to make it even better in the future. 

Installing any Linux Distribution on a Pen-drive (Flash Memory)

There are lots of articles about how to install a specific distribution of Linux on a pendrive. Some distributions has their own options in the installation wizard to do so. But there are still some barriers in different versions. Hence to install any version of any distribution I suggest you to use Universal USB Installer, or Linux Live USB Creator. I prefer Linux Live USB Creator, since it checks the ISO file and give you a better report about it.

What OS is used by Google currently?

I love Google and naturally I like to know more about it. I was wondering what OS they use on their machines? Or on their servers?

I surfed the net but I could not find an official statement! :(
It is said that they use a customized version of Debian Linux. Cool! We, as lovers, have many things in common! ;)

Check the links and share your idea please:

• http://www.itworld.com/040618googledebian
• http://news.netcraft.com
• http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.google.com
  

Google Goof in Picasa for Linux

I use Picasa 3 for linux on my Ubuntu. I pressed the Movie button moments ago and Picasa showed me a dialogue box which contains this message: "This feature is not supported for Windows 2000"!

Ubuntu Pocket Guide

You can download the official Ubuntu Pocket Guide here.

Jaunty Jackalope

In the past weekend I got noticed that Ubuntu version 9.04, Jaunty Jackalope, released! I was too inpatient to wait to receive a copy of 9.04 alternate ISO from my friend! So I decided to get ready to upgrade my 8.10 Ubuntu using update-manager -d command.
I started at night and it finished next day at noon.
I've used my new OS for 2 days and I have no problem except an small issue about which I've asked here.
The default theme and login windows has been changed, and many features have been added.

I guess I like it!

My first Java program in Linux

Finally I succeeded in installing Eclipse on my Ubuntu Linux. It detects the gcj which is installed by default on the Linux. Since JAVA_HOME was set successfully. I started coding to check the differences of executing Java programs on a new environment! I checked some simple console programs and then I wrote a simple JFrame program. The frame was so nice in GNOME environment but as I noticed instantly the frame was not responding to the events very well during the resizing, maximizing and ... And it failed to responded when I tried to close it!!! Later on I decided to change my JVM to the Sun JVM. I installed JDK 6u6 and altered JAVA_HOME. Oh yes! now it works fine!!! I should say it could be the gcj fault!

Please write your similar experiences on this topic.

Pronunciation of Linux

Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, explains how the word should be pronounced.

Sudo is older than me!

I installed my first Ubuntu Linux last night! It is actually my first Unix-based OS that I really got fascinated by it. I'm installing LAMP (actually AMP since L is installed already). During the execution of the commands I got interested in the history of Sudo. I know what it is for and I guessed it should be a new command so I looked for a brief history of Sudo and I found Sudo is 4 years older than me! lol...