In a desperate attempt to reduce the load on my system when running Firefox 3 with 20+ tabs open (and to try out the newest incarnation of this great browser), I decided to try out Firefox 3.5. This how-to from web upd8 shows the installation procedure using a semi-official PPA mirror (so the builds is [...]
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Backing up to Amazon S3 (Part 2) – duplicity
As I wrote in my post last week, I have been playing a bit with how to back up to Amazon S3 on Ubuntu. The simplest method of doing so is to use Duplicity, which have built-in support for backing up to a S3 bucket. That means that the only thing you have to do [...]
Backing up to Amazon S3 (Part 1)
Backing up your files can obviously be done in many ways. Some prefer a USB-disk located somewhere to which backups can be made with irregular intervals, while others prefer the backups to be made by some automated process which backs up to some remote location. It is probably apparent from the last sentence that I [...]
Ubuntu Jaunty on the Lenovo x200
I decided to install Ubuntu Jaunty Alpha 6, and have been using it since then. There does not seem to be any issues with it when used with the Lenovo x200 (the issues I have had have all been related to the fact that I chose amd64 as the platform – that creates some minor [...]
pc_user updated
I have just uploaded a new version of the user authentication library, pc_user. It does not contain major changes – only a security improvement which could have resulted in a SQL injection attack if the parameters given to the library was not cleaned prior to passing it to the library. The new release fixes this [...]