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Today I upgraded my Ubuntu installation to the newly released Karmic Kaola. Except for a couple of glitches during the upgrade process (maybe later more about this), I was able to login to my updated system about an hour later. I opened up Eclipse (running 3.5 - Galileo) to continue my Java development tasks. But very soon I noticed the upgrade introduced severe issues with my favorite IDE, most notably, the buttons on most dialog boxes could not be pushed anymore. Here's how I managed to fix it .... (more...)

This site is powered by Wordpress running on Ubuntu. Some of you might have noticed we recently changed the permalink structure. Permalinks are the permanent links to the posts or categories in a blog site. Permalink can be used to link to your article or category by other blogs or sites, or to send a link to your story in an e-mail message.

The permalinks now all have the structure /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ where the previous the structure was /%post_id%. Permalink rewrites are based on the Apache Rewrite engine and there are a few caveats when changing the permalink structure. Here's a checklist to get you going...

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UPDATE : for builds after 3.0.194.0, the directive  "--enable-plugins" is no longer activated by default, so you need to pass this option to enjoy flash.

UPDATE : Bad news : the latest updates (3.0.195.0~svn20090714r20617-0ubuntu1~ucd2~jaunty) break flash again

Good news for chromium-browser users on Linux.

As of today you can get Flash to work. Make sure you have the latest version installed, pay special attention to the date and build (20090710r20374).

koen@d820:/usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins$ apt-cache policy chromium-browser
chromium-browser:
Installed: 3.0.194.0~svn20090710r20374-0ubuntu1~ucd1~jaunty
Candidate: 3.0.194.0~svn20090710r20374-0ubuntu1~ucd1~jaunty
Version table:
*** 3.0.194.0~svn20090710r20374-0ubuntu1~ucd1~jaunty 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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After more than two years running Feisty on my Dell Latitude D820, I finally decided it was time to upgrade my Ubuntu distribution to the latest release tagged Jaunty. I started to lack a couple of essentials like Firefox 3, Flash Player 10 and I wanted to get my hands on the Google Chrome browser too. Installation was super smooth and within 20 minutes I could login to my new system.

Now, the webcam issue : I have a QuickCam Messenger webcam, which is recognized correctly by Ubuntu, but it does not work with Skype or JMF (Java Media Framework) applications. (more...)