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Eventhough you can run Skype on Linux system as described in my last post, I think some more flexible and open options worth to be set. Ekiga is one of them and is available out of the box in Ubuntu. Read More

Configuring Ekiga for PC-To-Phone calls

When installing Ubuntu on my lap­top, I made the choice to run it in 64 bits mode hav­ing in mind that it might lead to var­i­ous prob­lems. One of them, is to get Skype run­ning. Since this prod­uct is pro­pri­etary, ...Read More

Installing Skype under Hardy 64 bits

MBP 4.1 and 64 bits">

Unfor­tu­nately, it seems that the wire­less device used in the Mac­book Pro 4.1 has no linux dri­ver yet. Ndis­wrap­per has to be used instead. After uncom­press­ing the rar file named broadcomxpinstaller.exe, sim­ply use the file bcmwl5.inf for a 64 bits ...Read More

Getting wireless driver to work on MBP 4.1 and 64 bits

MPLAB 7.60 under Wine">MPLAB 7.60 under Wine

In a nut­shell (sup­pos­ing you start from scratch): $ sudo apt-get install wine cabextract   $ rm .wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microchip -rf (to remove anything that failed)   $ wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks   $ sh winetricks vcrun6   $ wget http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/mp760a.zip   $ unzip mp760a.zip -d microchip   $ wine Install_MP760a.exe   $ wineserver -k (to get rid ...Read More

MPLAB 7.60 under Wine

ISO under Linux">MagicISO

Unfortunately, it seems that no program is available yet to handle that kind of (proprietary) file format under Linux. The only solution left (except to install Windows) is to use MagicISO under Linux using wine. With Ubuntu, this simply is a ...Read More

Converting uif images to ISO under Linux

Syntax color highlighting and line numbering in vim

Sim­ply add these lines to your ~/.vimrc: :syn­tax enable :set number You will end up with a nice inter­face that may looks like this: Read More

Set syntax color highlighting and line numbering in vim