Today, we bought a new all-in-one device for home use, a HP Deskjet 3050A J611 series, that was told to be capable for WiFi connections. The delivered software on a CD is available for Windows and Mac OS machines only. Now I run Ubuntu which shall not be a problem as all HP devices are supported by default on this operating system. And right: I got it working very simply. Connect the USB cable [Read more...]
Sometimes, it is necessary to install a new version of OXID eShop quickly. Downloading it from the official download page, extracting the archive and uploading it again to your hosting provider can be a time-consuming and error-prone process due to CRC errors. If you have SSH access to your server terminal or if you work on a local Linux machine or VM-ware appliance, there is a much smoother [Read more...]
After publishing my last blog post about switching to Ubuntu, I took a short break for a while. I had a few problems: I couldn't get the VPN running as my company was using a proprietary protocol. I couldn't find a good Exchange client replacement under Linux. My company had bought me an iPhone and iTunes was not available on Linux. I came up with a solution to bypass these problems. I [Read more...]
More or less spontaneously, I decided to go to "Chemnitzer Linux-Tage" for the first time, the probably second biggest Linux event in Germany, and was really surprised: Not only Linux geeks but a very mixed up audience of Germans and Non-Germans, developers, administrators and interested people in any kind of open source software found together in a very familiar and comfortable atmosphere. In [Read more...]
Of course, you have to announce your new blog posts over Twitter. A cool twitter client is not the worst idea - I personally decided to run Twhirl for this purpose because Twhirl is able to run multiple accounts. As Twhirl is based on the platform Adobe Air, you first have to install this one. Go to http://get.adobe.com/air/, download it to your /home/ folder. Open the command line and type [Read more...]
If you are in business, your companies' IT policy is perhaps to run Microsoft products like Windows OS only. Although you might have a bit of freedom in this manner (let's say because you are presenting on Open Source software fairs and need to run a Linux for this case) the switch might be not that easy thinking about Microsoft Exchange, Skype, VPN, Microsoft Office and so on. For me, it is [Read more...]