Archive for February, 2009

Spotify on Ubuntu

Since I am a Spotify user I just had to have it on my Ubuntu desktop. After few seconds of google i find it very easy to install Spotify on Ubuntu. You can follow thier official how to on their home page: http://www.spotify.com/en/help/faq/wine/


PNG-fix for IE6

Here is a very good png-fix for IE6. Still it do not work on Ubuntu if you have IE6 installed on your Ubuntu. http://labs.unitinteractive.com/unitpngfix.php


Debian 5 Released

After 2 years since Debian 4 the new Debain 5 finally came. Acutely I am not a Debian user but since Ubuntu is build on Debian i find it necessary to write about this new on my blog. You may find more information about the new version on thier home page: http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090214


Internet Explorer 6 on Ubuntu

This howto will learn how to install Internet Explorer 6 on Ubuntu. Update apt-get: sudo apt-get update Install Wine and Cabextract: sudo apt-get install wine cabextract If any questions appear select yes. Now, install IEs4Linux (NOT as root!): cd ~ wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz cd ies4linux-* ./ies4linux Select the explorer versions you want to [...]


Footer position bottom with css

After some hours i finally found this tutorial how to make a footer stick to bottom with css. I put it here if someone of you ever need. http://ryanfait.com/resources/footer-stick-to-bottom-of-page/ Many thanks to ryanfait.com!


Firefox

This will be my first review and I will write my opinion about Firefox version 3. Short information about Firefox Firefox 1.0 was released in November 2004 by the creators of Mozilla. Firefox is as many other web browsers free to download and use. It have Open Source and does work to operative systems like [...]


Common Ubuntu Commands

Here comes a list with some commands I often use on Ubuntu. I will update this list when I get more time, so do not expect a new post with new commands, it will appear here! Window with root access gksudo nautilus Copy hole disk to another sudo dd if=/dev/disk-you-will-copy of=/dev/disk-you-will-copy-too Format disk sudo mkfs.Filesystem [...]


New Version of ProFTPD released

It have come to my knowledge that the creators of ProFTPD have released a new version of thier software. The new version (1.3.2) have bugfix 3 well known bugs included the SQL-injection bug. I have not tried the new version yet but the creators behind ProFTPD promote this update. I will update you when I [...]


Print PHP version

Since alot of friends ask me how to print out which PHP version they are using I decide to write how to do it here on my blog. It is very simple and will just take a few seconds. Start with creating a new PHP document, for example: phpinfo.php In the document you simply write: [...]


Install Webserver on Debian

This HowTo will learn you how to install Apache2, PHP5, MySQL and phpMyAdmin on Debian, in my case Ubuntu 8,1. First of all you may go root. Open your terminal and write: sudo su After this I suggest that you make an update on your system by writing: apt-get update Now it’s time for download [...]