I upgraded to Alpha 3 today for kicks. sudo do-release-upgrade -d for the bold. I thought I’d share a little hiccup I had in the process. dpkg: parse error, in file ‘/var/lib/dpkg/available’ near line 54937 package ‘virtualbox-2.2′: error in Version string `2.2.4-47978_Ubuntu_jaunty’: invalid character in revision number I just fired up a txt editor, gksudo [...]
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Lucid’s New Sound Indicator Applet Thing or How The Sound Applet Went To Suck
Historically, the volume applet in Gnome was just that. It was it’s own applet. You added the sound control independently of any notification area or indicator applet. This was awesome! It was better than Windows. It was better than OS X. You could place the volume applet anywhere on the panel and, most importantly to [...]
Create and Upload Ringtones to iPhone via Wifi with Ubuntu
You can use VirtualBox with Windows installed to use iTunes with a USB cable, but that’s not nearly as cool. Check the Ubuntu Wiki Page on iPhones for that. I want to focus on using an iPhone without the need for virtualizing another operating system. Step 1: Jailbreak your iPhone with redsn0w! We need to [...]
New VirtualBox 2.2.2 owned by Oracle wrapped in Sun branding
News broke recently that Oracle was buying Sun. Yesterday we got a new VirtualBox release. I was worried about my favorite little cross-platform virtualizer and still am to some degree. Was this the last release of code that was worked on prior to buyout? I do notice all the Sun branding as opposed to Oracle. [...]
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