Ext2 and Ext3 in Windows Vista and Windows 7
I recently upgraded one of my PCs to Windows 7 and needed to access an Ext3 external USB drive. Accessing it in Windows 7 has shown to be quite simple thanks to the new version of ext2fsd.
ASUS A6R Ubuntu 8.10
This time the distribution upgrade went smoother than the one before, but yet there are some minor issues that needed some tweaking. Also, there are some remarks on the new HAL (Hardware Abstraction (Obstruction) Layer)
Linux and Multimedia - Music Players and Music Managers
Since I listen to music almost all the time, I built a small linux powered multimedia (almost) 'PC' for multimedia playback. This article results from my experience finding a good application to manage my music collection.
Thunderbird,Lighting and Google Calendar
For anyone who wants to have all the calendar events shared and online.
Eclipse 3.3.2 (PDT), Java 1.6.0 and Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy
I use Eclipse for C++, C, Java, PHP and Embedded Linux development, thus I try to maintain more or less recent version of all the plugins and Eclipse core itself. The new plugins required new Eclipse, so I had to remove the version packed with distribution and replace it with the new one. This, however, turned out to be quite painful.
Ubuntu Gutsy to Hardy 8.04 LTS Upgrade
It's already a few weeks back that I upgraded from Gutsy to Hardy, but not until recently I got down to fixing all the issues I had to keep up with. This post is a short outline of the problems and their solutions.
