Monthly Archives: November 2008

5 Vital Things You Must Do After Installing Ubuntu

Inspired by many other lists I’ve seen. This one is mine.

Play with it
Configure it the way you want it, not the way some list on a blog tells you
Play with it some more
Join our Community *
Turn the computer off and spend some time with your friends and family

* But only y’know, if you want …

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Latest meme shows I have no decent books on my desk

See Phils blog for details of this..

Here’s mine:-

If you already have a central System Landscape Directory in place, we recommend that you install an additional System Landscape Directory for administration purposes in the central administration and monitoring system only if the existing System Landscape Directory is running in a non-production system.

– SAP Netweaver …

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Amusing Matrix and Windows Parody

Ok, so Matrix parodies have been done to death, but this one from College Humor is actually pretty well done. Watch to the very end for the punchline :)

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Click here if you can’t see the plugin above.

Yes it needs flash, no that doesn’t make you a bad person for watching it.

Thanks to sladen …

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Ubuntu Post Install

Following on from Clint, Christer, and Valent who all detail the first things they do post install on a Linux system.. Here’s mine:-

Enable Medibuntu repository (see their site for details)

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/intrepid.list –output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update

Get the good (*) stuff

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras vlc mplayer w32codecs …

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