Sandboxing on Ubuntu with Arkose using LXC
Arkose can serve to make sandboxing easy on Ubuntu Linux. It uses LXC as technology to isolate programs that you don’t trust fully. On Natty 11.04 the installation is as simple as sudo apt-get install...
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Markdown for the Gedit Text Editor on Ubuntu 11.04
This is the continuation of the topic gedit Markdown plugin and the comment by Jean-Philippe Fleury, the author of the plugin. If you frequently have to create Markdown documents, you might want your...
View Articlecherokee – A Very Fast and Small Webserver Software
http://www.cherokee-project.com/ Installation http://www.cherokee-project.com/doc/ Debian/Ubuntu offers Cherokee packages but they are quite outdated for the stable branch. So you may want to prefer...
View ArticleUse a Prologix GPIB-to-USB Controller via Linux
Plug’n’Play on Linux Plug the Prologix GPIB-USB Controller in on your Ubuntu 11.04 machine (most probably it will work on most older versions too) it directly shows up as a serial port via USB, such as...
View ArticleUse Middle Mouse Button in a Parallels 6 Virtual Machine running Linux on a...
Sometimes you have to use the middle mouse button, sometimes it’s just convenient to do so. Either way, if you want to use it on a virtualised Linux machine on a Parallels 6 (or any other...
View ArticleSniff Serial Connection
Windows My favorite: Advanced Serial Port Monitor v4.1.5 2011-03-28. Works with Windows 7, somewhat limited in the free edition but good for me....
View ArticleInstall an Asterisk Server on Debian from Source
https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Installing+Asterisk+From+Source Get Requirements We need gcc, g++ and some libraries: sudo apt-get install build-essential libxml2-dev ncurses-dev Get the...
View ArticleFlickrMS – Mounting Flickr as FUSE File System
Requirement: flickcurl flickcurl is a library to access the Flickr API via C. On Debian/Ubuntu simply install libflickcurl-dev: sudo apt-get install libflickcurl-dev or get the latest dev version: sudo...
View ArticleDownloading Picasa Web Albums
Picasa-Downloader – A simple Python script to get the normal size images https://github.com/anoopjt/Picasa-Downloader pip install BeautifulSoup cd ~/Downloads wget...
View ArticleInstall the LaTeX Distribution TeX Live on Ubuntu Linux
Install the most important packages using: sudo apt-get install texlive texlive-latex-extra optionally also install some German language support packages: sudo apt-get install texlive-lang-german If...
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