Category Archives: Tutorials

Learning Django

By mhall119 | Published: February 23, 2010

All this week I will be teaching classes on Django at 1pm Eastern (1800 UTC) in #ubuntu-classroom.  It is a series of 4 classes, taking you from getting Django setup to a working application, learning about Views, Models, Forms and Templates.  We started off getting a Django project setup and will continue tomorrow with creating [...]

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Manipulating spreadsheets opened from Firefox

By launchpad.net/~tiemonster | Published: November 4, 2009

When you open a file from Firefox instead of saving it, the file is downloaded to the /tmp file and opened read-only. This is a problem when opening spreadsheets from web pages, as OpenOffice.org doesn’t allow manipulation of files opened as read-only. In this article, I show you how to strip read-only privileges from spreadsheets opened from Firefox so that you can manipulate these files without having to manually save them elsewhere.

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Issue with Networked Filesystems and Apache

By jamalta | Published: October 5, 2009

I encountered an issue today when trying to serve a Javascript file through Apache. I am using a Virtual Machine (VM) for my development environment, and have shared folders set up so that it mounts my working directory from the my machine. This makes it easy for me to develop on my local machine and [...]

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Hacklet: Apt Cache Redirect

By mhall119 | Published: August 27, 2009

It is generally recommended to create separate partitions for your root (/) and home (/home) directories.  This gives you the ability to do a clean install of your distro, or another distro, without putting your personal data at risk.  Usually this works out pretty well. There can, however, be a downside.  Suppose you didn’t allocate [...]

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Hacklet: Remove Gwibber tray icon

By mhall119 | Published: June 30, 2009

Get the most out of Gwibber and Indicator Applet by doing away with the Gwibber tray icon.

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InkScape Tutorial #078 at Screencasters

By Dan Trevino | Published: January 4, 2009

InkScape tutorial #078 is now available over at screencasters. Digg this postRecommend on FacebookBuzz it upTweet about it

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Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 64 bit Review

By Dan Trevino | Published: December 1, 2008

I waited a few days to let the load on the servers cool down so I could try Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10 out on my new Dell Inspiron 530 system. Intrepid was released on October 30th and I downloaded it a few days later. With this upgrade I went from an Athlon X2 3800 to [...]

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How to install Ubuntu using Wubi

By Dan Trevino | Published: May 7, 2008

This How to video will show you how to install Ubuntu using Wubi which can be download it from here . Digg this postRecommend on FacebookBuzz it upTweet about it

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How to install software in Ubuntu

By Dan Trevino | Published: May 6, 2008

This will show you how to install software in Ubuntu with the use of Synaptics Package Manager. Fairly easy, follow the tutorial and you will be installing software in no time. Digg this postRecommend on FacebookBuzz it upTweet about it

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How to add quick templates to your desktop

By Dan Trevino | Published: May 1, 2008

One cool feature of Ubuntu 8.04, which I noticed back in version 7.10(Gutsy) I’m not sure if 7.04(Fiesty) had it. But essentially you could create folders which can in turn have template files within them. One cool feature of Ubuntu 8.04, which I noticed back in version 7.10(Gutsy) I’m not sure if 7.04(Fiesty) had it. [...]

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