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12 September 2006 | 0 Comments
Command Not Found is a great little utility for Linux. If you’ve ever tried to follow a set of instructions only to find that you don’t have some of the CLI programs needed, this will come to your rescue. Install command-not-found then add this to your ~/.bashrc: function command_not_found_handle { /usr/bin/command-not-found $1 return $? } [...]
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11 July 2006 | 7 Comments
The process used for this is the same as used for the previous post. Download the version of Opera 9 for i386 Linux from the official site. Go to the Ubuntu package site and download these packages (also for i386): libqt3-mt libaudio2 libxcursor1 libxft2 libxfixes3 Open each package in turn (don’t install!) and copy the [...]
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26 June 2006 | 12 Comments
First, go get the latest version of Wine (for i386). Ensure that you have the correct version (6.06 is Dapper). Open up a terminal in the folder you saved it to: sudo apt-get install ia32-libs sudo dpkg -i –force-architecture wine*.deb Next, head to the Ubuntu repository and download both libXx86dga1 and libXx86vm1 (for i386). Extract [...]
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25 June 2006 | 0 Comments
XML 1.0 allows you to insert characters from the C1 control code range, whilst those from the C0 range are outright forbidden. XML 1.1 allows you to insert characters from the C0 range as long as they are escaped as character entity references, and mandates that you do the same for those from the C1 [...]
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