Garza's BLOG

Peppermint OS correction for appropriate handling by opening downloaded files with Chrome/Chromium

admin — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:28:57 +0000

in the console:

sudo nano /usr/bin/xdg-open

Change:

generic) open_generic "$url" ;;

to:

generic) open_lxde "$url" ;;

Howto Upgrade your kernel the easy way (Ubuntu/LinuxMint)

admin — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:22:14 +0000

First check what kernel you have:

uname -a

to determine if you have a i386 or amd64.

NOTE: In case you have an new ATI graphics card you will very probably need to update to the latest drivers first for your Xorg to work with the newest kernels!!!

you have to install the 3 .deb files from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline exactly [...]

Howto install Ubuntu Software Center on LinuxMint10

admin — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:50:57 +0000

Try this:

sudo nano /etc/lsb-release change “DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint” for “DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu“

Save changes

Then do the following:

sudo apt-get install software-center sudo nano /usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/distro/__init__.py

find line 112 in the _get_distro() function:

distro_id = subprocess.Popen(["lsb_release","-i","-s"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0].strip()

And just change it to:

distro_id = “Ubuntu”

Then run software-center, it should work now!

After making sure that it works, just fix back what you changed before:

sudo nano /etc/lsb-release

change “DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu” for “DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint“

Save changes

Now [...]

Open Standards in Europe: BSA letter

admin — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 20:29:32 +0000

Old news, but still I though I should briefly describe what happened:

1) On October 7th the BSA sent a letter to the European Commission.

Basically they don’t like Open Standards, since they want to impose their their proprietary standards.

2) So the FSFE (Free Software Foundation Europe) didn’t like that at all, so they reacted sending the following [...]

Android Devices Dominate Holiday Sales…

admin — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:55:31 +0000

Source: Android Devices Dominate Holiday Sales in Mashable Poll.

Changing Education Paradigms

admin — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:37:11 +0000

Running KDE 4.5 on Kubuntu 10.04

admin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:48:34 +0000

Running Windows7 inside Linux with Virtualbox on Seamlesss mode

admin — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:55:23 +0000

My Desktop using Kubuntu 10.04 running KDE SC 4.4.5

admin — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:39:38 +0000

Google goes with the Open Standard, well done, but what’s with ODF? Why do you still have a proprietary format for your Google DOCS?

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:59:20 +0000

on a very interesting move to Open Standards, Google decided to give up developing for Google Gears and will focus their attention to HTML 5. So I see a future where the Operating Systems are completely irrelevant, we will only need a Web browser up and runnig and we will be able to do everything [...]