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Stand up for Freedom - Join The New Zealand Internet Blackout

Join The New Zealand Internet Blackout to protest against the Guilt Upon Accusation law ‘Section 92A’ that calls for Internet disconnection based on accusations of copyright infringement without a trial and without any evidence held up to court scrutiny. This is due to come into effect on February 28th unless

Blueman - An Awesome Bluetooth manager for Ubuntu

Bluetooth support has always been shaky in gnome. The default bluetooth manager is often very basic and unintuitive. Things like connecting to an audio or input device and Connecting to 3G/EDGE/GPRS via dial-up were either impossible or  not easy and straight forward to set-up. Bluetooth support took a

Configure Apache and public_html on Ubuntu

I was trying to do this Today at work for my local webserver. but i couldnt find a definite guide on how this could be achieved on Ubuntu. After some trial and errors i was able to figure it out, and thought to share in case anybody out there is

How to install SGeMS on Ubuntu Hardy Heron

SGeMS is a software for 3D geostatistical modeling. It implements many of the classical geostatistics algorithms, as well as new developments made at the SCRF lab, Stanford University. SGeMS relies on the Geostatistics Template Library (GsTL) to implement its geostatistical routines, including: * Kriging * Multi-variate kriging (co-kriging) * Sequential Gaussian simulation * Sequential

Receiving files via bluetooth on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10)

You probably know that sending files to a computer in ibex via bluetooth doesn’t work. .. well out of the box not until you install gnome-bluetooth from synaptic. thanks to this post here http://traversingmind.blogspot.com/2008/12/receiving-files-via-bluetooth-on-ubuntu.html

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