Monthly Archives: April 2010

My First Experience with UNR (Ubuntu Netbook Remix)

Posted on April 30, 2010 by Robby Chen

As yesterday’s release of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, I thought I would gave Ubuntu Netbook Remix 10.04 a try since I was going to reinstall Ubuntu on my netbook anyway. I downloaded UNR ISO image and created an USB installer … Continue reading →

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My Experience with upgrading from Ubuntu Karmic to Lucid

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Robby Chen

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx was released today and I was very excited to try to upgrading from Karmic to Lucid through update-manager using the following command: sudo update-manager -d Fortunately, the download speed during the upgrading process was normal. The … Continue reading →

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My New Mini-blog (Updated)

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Robby Chen

(UPDATE 06/28/10) I’m closing down the mini-blog because it gives me a huge productivity lag by posting the same content onto that blog and Twitter/identica. Tumblr will automatically post the new articles to Twitter and Facebook, but not to identica. … Continue reading →

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My Open Policy Decistion

Posted on April 27, 2010 by Robby Chen

This morning when I read all of the GNU/Linux news from my email inbox delivered via Google Alerts, I decided to have my own open policy. Although my career is web development, I can contribute my server-side script code such … Continue reading →

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Enable Line Wrap option in NetBeans Nightly

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Robby Chen

I always download NetBeans nightlies PHP pack since the beginning of April. However, I couldn’t download them during the last two weeks because of the huge workload that I had. I downloaded the latest NetBeans nightly 201004260200 and noticed that … Continue reading →

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Simple login form using existing Google or Yahoo account

Posted on April 25, 2010 by Robby Chen

I spent all of this morning write a demostration ColdFusion page for integrating with RPX API to allow users to use their existing Google or Yahoo accounts to sign in to my website. By using this API, I could get … Continue reading →

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GNU/Linux Backup Solution

Posted on April 24, 2010 by Robby Chen

Here is a good overview of why you should backup your data in case of hard drive failure. I never backup my hard drive simply because I’m afraid of use up my precious hard drive space. However, I sometimes backup … Continue reading →

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Patent Absurdity, a Documentary Film created by FSF

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Robby Chen

The documentary film “Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system” was released by FSF on April 19th. It’s a film about how software patent affects the software developers and its community. According to the release announcement, the film is … Continue reading →

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Create a separate /home partition

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Robby Chen

This forum post is a very good step by step tutorial for how to make a separate /home partition. The advantage of create a separate /home partition explained by the post is that your personal data would not be lost … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Sources List Generator

Posted on April 20, 2010 by Robby Chen

Ubuntu Sources List Generator provides many useful repositories that I didn’t know about, including AWN Testing repo and Firefox Daily Build repo. To generate Ubuntu-based sources list, just select your country and the Ubuntu release you are using. Then select … Continue reading →

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