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Google Maps with Danish street names

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Printing@Uni

lp -d g21a -o page-ranges=37-45 rapport.pdf

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Google Calendar – just plain sailing

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Howto embed evince pdf viewer into Firefox on fc5

Installing mozplugger is by far the easiest way to be able to read pdf files within Firefox and other mozilla variants.

To install type this in your command line:

sudo yum install mozplugger

And then restart your browser

Note: Evince is a lot faster than the native Adobe Reader on my Fedora Core 5 installation.

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Pattern for website reading

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an ex-microsoft employee’s view on Linux and the open source community

I am an ex-Microsoft programmer of 10 years who hadn’t spent 10 minutes with any Open Source code till I left Microsoft–which is actually very typical for MS employees.

After leaving 1 year ago and spending it with Linux (most of that time with Ubuntu) I’ve gained tremendous respect for the Open Source world as a whole but more than that, had an epiphany that Linux on the desktop is 99.999% ready to go. Linux is lean, stable, polished and extremely rich. All of the pieces needed for world domination on the desktop are there. If every Microsoft employee installed Linux, the attrition rate would double–which would be considered a catastrophe. If Bill Gates were to install Linux, he’d hire someone to smash one of his plasma TVs.

Read more on the guys experience on his blog at http://keithcu.com/

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Howto install Ruby on Rails on Fedora Core 5 (fc5)

First we’ll need to install the Ruby packages:

sudo yum install ruby ruby-devel ruby-libs irb rdoc

Then download and install RubyGems ( a package manager – like apt-get just for Ruby packages):

wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/5207/rubygems-0.8.11.tgz
tar xzvf rubygems-0.8.11.tgz
cd rubygems-0.8.11
sudo ruby setup.rb

Then we are ready to install Ruby on Rails by using RubyGems:

sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies

Create a application skeleton:

rails path/to/your/new/application
cd path/to/your/new/application
ruby script/server

Now launch a webbrowser and point it to http://0.0.0.0:3000/


Ruby on Rails on FC5

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