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A new repository for Ubuntu Dapper: dapper-comercial

Just add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb <a href="http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu" title="http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu">http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu</a> dapper-commercial main

You can find Opera 9 and RealPlayer 10 there, but not for AMD64 :-(

Update: and here is an official press release:
http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2006/07/06/02/

I finally can see flash on my Ubuntu AMD64!

I run across the NSpluginwrapper: A cross-architecture browser plugin tool article today, downloaded NSpluginwrapper and followed the instructions on the Ubuntu forums:

1. Download the Plugin and the Viewer
2. Install alien and linux32, if not already installed.
3. Convert the downloaded rpm's to deb's
   

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I saw An Inconvenient Truth today. If you have any doubts that we are causing a massive climate change then make sure you see this movie. And I really mean MASSIVE.

If you still have doubts after seeing this movie then your salary depends on having doubts.

One of the trailers shown before the movie started was for "Who Killed the Electric Car?", related subject, looks pretty interesting.

An initiative by Guy Dauncey, the publisher of the excellent EcoNews newsletter and the person who started the BC Sustainable Energy Association. Please support him.

Dear Friends and EcoNews Readers,
Among my various activities, I am involved in launching a new national non-profit society, called Prevent Cancer Now.

We are building a Canada-wide movement that will do whatever it takes to eliminate the preventable causes of cancer.

This has gone on long enough. We need to get the toxins and pollutants out of our lives and out of nature, once and for all. Sweden has set a goal to eliminate all hazardous chemicals by 2020. We can and must do the same here in Canada. We are also organizing a major national conference for cancer prevention in May 2007. Our website is www.preventcancernow.ca

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If you are running several computers (desktop and/or laptop) and you are tired of switching keyboards and mice all the time the have a look at synergy. It is a software keyboard and mouser switcher and it also integrates the clipboard and the screensaver. You can move your mouse across all your monitors and it automatically switches computers for you.

I am using it with a Linux desktop (Ubuntu 5.10) and a Mac OS laptop. The main issue I run into was the fact the Ubuntu provides an older version (1.2.2) and this had problems with the Alt/Cmd key getting stuck on the laptop. Quite annoying. Installing the latest version fixed the problem, here are the necessary steps:

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diggler was my all time favorite Mozilla/Firefox extension. Unfortunately it is not maintained anymore (version 0.9 was released in 2004) and it is not working in Firefox 1.5.

While customizing my toolbar I noticed a button called Up. It does almost the same thing as diggler! It turns out that this Up button is part of the Google Toolbar for Firefox.

Update: There is a similar extension called Digger, this will add a context menu to the Go button (just right-click on it).

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Find the nearest independent coffee shop: www.delocator.ca. And you can also add cafés you now.

It is quite amazing (or rather sad) that there are 9 Starbucks stores within 3 km of my home. The good news is that within the same 3 km there are 20 reported independent cafés.

Last week at the Sun Developers Days I attented an OpenSolaris presentation and DTrace was introduced. It was the first time that I heard about this tool, quite impressive.

It hit me that this is nothing else than Aspect Oriented Programming applied to the whole operating system. DTrace probes are join points, clauses (and predicates) are pointcuts and actions are advices.

We are learning how to lose cotrol pretty fast ;

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After last week's Sun Developers Days here in Vancouver, a discussion started on the Java Users Group mailing list about Java and Linux. Here is an open letter written by one the list members:
Open Letter to Sun about Java on Linux