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I can't resist posting a link to this blog post :-)  Takes around 1 minute to read it all... Great effort from the author. Comparative installation of simple cards game under Ubuntu and under Windows.

$ bzr clone lp:openerp $ cd openerp $ ./bzr_set.py -r tag:5.0.3 ../5_0_3 $ cd ../5_0_3/

Open one terminal for the server

$ cd server/bin/

(make sure you have a "terp" user on your system, and that you're logged as this user, and that there is a "terp" database in your PosgtreSQL server)

$ sudo su terp

$ ./openerp-server.py --db_user=terp --db_host=localhost

Open another terminal for the web client

$ cd web/lib/

$ ./populate.sh

(this will insta

When installing Ubuntu on one of the new machines we get from time to time, there's a common mechanism I repeat over and over with Firefox:

1. install the Firebug extension
2. install the Web Developer extension
3. install the ShowIP extension
4. install the GooglePreview extension
5. change the link of the start bar icon to start Firefox, to "firefox -no-remote -ProfileManager %u" instead of "firefox %u"

The latest option allows you to launch Firefox using different profiles, each of them having its own extensions.

Due to a few missing bits in the DOKUDA video-editing team, I had to turn my MacBookPro on Ubuntu 8.10 into a FireWire (ieee1394) video recording device, through the reading of the DV tapes in a Panasonic PV-GS9 video recording camera. Surprisingly, this did not work out of the box. It should have worked with a simple "dvgrab", but when connecting the camera to the FW port, it seemed to remain undetected. After a few trials (including a reboot), I realized the FireWire module (raw1394) should be loaded into the operating system.

Although Tatanka's page makes it easy enough to install IE6 & 7 under Ubuntu 8.04, you might fall upon a few problems when trying it if you don't have a Python developer's background ;-) When trying to install, I got an obscure Python GTK error (which, sadly, I forgot to copy-paste at the time).

I have updated the OpenERP wiki again to add documentation about the possible problems happening when trying to create new databases.

Just wanted to highlight a post I randomly found and that is interesting and is from the blog of someone (I don't know whom exactly) obviously close to Ubuntu (the blog is full of articles and links to Ubuntu). http://jonreagan.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/canonical-microsoft-and-apple/ It makes me think we should really get Dokeos packed up for Ubuntu (or at least Edubuntu) as we're really starting to have something good here...

I have recently improved the installation guide for OpenERP 4 on Ubuntu (8.04). Previously, this documentation was available on the old OpenERP wiki, but it has been lost to the public during an upgrade of the website.

VirtualBox is a very practical application running under Linux systems, and packaged into Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, that lets you virtualise an operating system. A bit in the same way as QEmu did it, except that, to make it short, it works better. Anyway, VirtualBox is highly dependent on the kernel of the base system you're running it on, so it is linked to the kernel packages in Ubuntu. The only problem is that, when upgrading your kernel with the usual Ubuntu package updates, you don't get an update for the VirtualBox right away.

VLC player is (in my view) by far the most practical and complete DVD player for Ubuntu. There is not one DVD I haven't been able to play on my computer since I started using VLC. Recently, however, after a low level clean-up of my Ubuntu packages, VLC player has been showing a very strange symptom: the video is was moving back and forth continuously on a half-a-second slice, while still playing ahead and the sound still being alright. Anyway, the only way to fix it was to go to the Preferences panel (inside Settings menu), Video, Output modules, tick Advanced options.