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Andres Jaimes

Installing a PDF print server on Ubuntu Server

This article was originally written for Ubuntu 7, but we now know it works for Ubuntu 10 as well. Thanks Shooda!

  1. To start, install the CUPS service and CUPS-PDF files:
sudo apt-get install cupsys sudo apt-get install cups-pdf
  1. Now configure CUPS …

Server Upgrade

Last sunday I upgraded my website software… phew!, It was a long task, but final result was very pleasant :-). Right now it’s running on WordPress 1.5. Very nice. One major change was the use of subdomains instead of subdirectories. I pretend to keep …

Logo contest and Xara

Two months ago I designed this logo for an internal company product contest. I didn’t win, but I learned a lot. Xara made the work very simple, and well… hope you like it as much as I do…

Magellan Logo

Ubuntu 8.04

Ubuntu 8.04 was released last week. This release includes features like:

  • Firefox 3 Beta 5: Web browser
  • Desktop Effects enabled by default: Window shadows, wobbling, animations, desktop on a 3D cube, transparency and a lot more.
  • Gnome 2.22: Window …

On Polyominoes

Three weeks ago I had to work on polyominoes for a final project. Since I had to program an enumeration quickly, I wanted to find a simple algorithm to do it. Well, my search was hard. I barely found information on enumeration algorithms and read the …

117 comments…

Hey!, today while checking the comments for my site I found the amazing quantity of 117 comments… all of them spam! hahaha… this is a new record!

Solaris

How to change the screen resolution of Solaris 10 running in vmware

  1. First you must install the vmware tools on your virtual machine.
  2. Edit your xorg.conf file:
vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf
  1. Under the section “Monitor” put a number sign (#) in front of all …