not sure if you ever met this situation, but it happens to me all the time! I don't like helping on Windows stuff, mainly because it's harder to check what the problem/fix it.

Thanks for lightpriest for sending me this nice comics

Dor.

Check the translation button!

שלום חברים,

אני גאה לכתוב את הפוסט הראשון שלי בפלאנט של אובונטו!

לאחרונה כמה אנשים העלו את הנושא של פוסטים בשפות שונות מעברית. החלטתי לקחת את הצ'אנס ולהתחיל ולפרסם את הפוסטים בעברית בפלאנט.

הצבתי כפתור תרגום במעלה הפוסט עבור דוברי שפות אחרות. ברור לי שיכולות התרגום של גוגל לא מתקרבות לתרגום אנושי, אבל נקווה שזה יספיק כדי להבהיר את הנקודות.

אם למישהו יש בעיות עם זה, מוזמנים לפנות אליי…

דור

In my last post about netbooks I said I'll make it so some kind of series of guides, so here the second part

One of the biggest problems when using a nebook is that every pixel matters. the screen is so small that you really need save as much screen as you can.

For that reason i found it very comfortable to replace the panels with a dock such as Avant Window Navigator (and not like Docky that I don't like at all!).
when I looked on web (or more exact, on Google) I wasn't able to find anything useful about it, so i went to our chat (#ubuntu-il) and got the answer right away (thanks Avishay! you're the man!) :

WARNING: make sure you have a menu somewhere else, since after that step you can't use Alt+F1 or Alt+F2.

First open the terminal (for beginners: Applications > Accessories > Terminal),
now enter the command:

gconf-editor /desktop/gnome/session

double click the option "required_components_list" and remove from the list the "panel" value.

logout and login back,
that's it!

Dor

Hey guys,

If you use Facebook and support Ubuntu, you may want to show it with an awesome badge I recently found on the www!

I suggest "wearing" it, sharing it, spreading it any way possible…

kids, please try this at home!!!

Dor

PS – to those who are afraid for their data, please notice that this application asks for all facebook information.

Hey there!

Not too long ago I bought  a brand new awesome Dell netbook. must say I like it very much and that it runs slickly with Ubuntu 10.04 (Dell Inpiron mini 1012 if you're curious).

BUT – (and of course there's one), I had to deal with the new small size. the keyboard is really comfortable though, but the screen is REAL small. on this post I'll focus on making Xchat IRC client best sized for netbooks.

First let's begin with the menubar, press F9 to make it disappear. even though it's only about half centimeter, it's 2 chat lines that we want to use. the menu is very useful but it'd not used commonly, so we'll just keep it hid. if you need it back you can just right click on any place inside the chat itself or use the F9 key stroke again to show it up.

Now I'll focus on is the channel switcher. the channel switcher at default comes on tree mode in the left side, for that reason it takes a big part of the screen that's not really used well. so.. let's fix it up!
go to Settings > Preferences menu, and find your path to the Channel Switcher category. let's change the type of the switcher from "Tree" to "Tabs" and then make it to show on the "Top" instead of "Left". that way it will take way less place, it will take about the same height we freed by hiding the menus
we can manage to save a little bit more place by unchecking "Open an extra tab for server messages" option.

EDIT: thanks to Gord Allot for his comment, you should read it!

A little bonus for active Ubuntu users (!!!):
There are many channels that starts with "ubuntu" that's i'm sitting in, I figured out it takes a lot of place that is quite unnecessary, so I've decided to write a little script for Xchat, making the word "ubuntu" on tabs to be replaced with "U" for saving that place too. it doesn't mean you can join Ubuntu channels using just "U" instead of "ubuntu", but it will save you that place on the channels switcher.
you may download my script from here (licensed under GPL) and save it under ~/.xchat folder to make it load on Xchat startup.

I believe I'll make some more guides in this subject, I believe i should spread the experience I have, that's what open source is all open, right? 

Dor

Hey everybody!

I am so excited to announce that i have started to send CDs and badges to users, the badges was a gift of System76 (Thanks Carl!) and the CDs was sent from Canonical (Thanks Maria!).

To spread these items, the non-profit association, "Hamakor" gave me 250 NIS (about $65), I bought envelopes and decided that to make it look more professional I'd better print something on them, and that's what I designed:

so….. now it's sending time, if anyone (from Israel) didn't ordered, you still can do it!

what a fun to see things happening
Dor.

Hey there,

Yesterday I tried to find a way how to install Dropbox when no GUI available, which means on my Ubuntu server machine (just an old computer sitting in my small "mamad"mamad). I wanted to use it for some kind of a little cloud between the computers of my family so i can choose what to share with who, and also as a backup system (online).

I must say it wasn't so easy to find how to do it, but in the end i found the answer on a very surprising place: the Dropbox wiki (surprised, huh?).

the page on the wiki looks very complicated, which is not true – so how to do it?

First make sure you are registered, I believe you won't like to use your own account on a different machine.
after you've registered, enter the machine (SSH would be best option) and do the following steps:

1. Make sure you're on your home directory by running the command:
$ cd

2. Now download the Linux tarball
$ wget -O dropbox.tar.gz http://www.dropbox.com/download/?plat=lnx.x86
or for 64bit users:
$ wget -O dropbox.tar.gz http://www.dropbox.com/download/?plat=lnx.x86_64

3. now extract the files:
$ tar -zxof dropbox.tar.gz

4. run the script in background:
$ .dropbox-dist/dropboxd &
you'll get a link. copy it and open it in your browser and then login with the email address and password you have registered in the beginning.
after you've done so – the script will stop and Dropbox will run logged-in.
the Dropbox folder located on ~/Dropbox as usual.

5. to make sure Dropbox will load on startup run the command:
$ dropbox autostart
you can find the whole commands list using dropbox –help or man dropbox

please note that while I did it on Ubuntu server, it might work on any distribution.

Hope this small guide will help someone…
Ddorda

Few weeks ago our LoCo (Ubuntu-IL) started a revolution, we are now learning the way of Ubuntu, and how to use the creativity of the community for everyone's use.

as a part of that, we have started doing meeting in our chat (#ubuntu-il/Freenode), that made me very excited, who thought the community may have that kind of power!

but it seemed that the meetings were a little mess, it certainly needed some bot to help us organize the meetings. of course we tried MootBot and MootBot-UK, both are great bots (!), but both does not support Hebrew at all (seems like a bug in Eggdrop).

for that reason, Shualdon, an active Ubuntu user from our LoCo (and a good friend too), sat down days and nights, and succeed writing an whole new bot (Python) in just few days, that works just great! it has all the function we need from MootBot, has no problems with Hebrew and even makes a BBcode summary of the meetings. as it seems now, more functions will be added soon, so it may be used for support in the channel, and not only for the meetings.

The bot was named Hoborg as a gesture to the most brilliant quest game we both have ever knew: The Neverhood (recommended!!). Hoborg is actually some kind of the god of the game, it is the creature who created the Neverhood.

I just want to thank Shualdon for that great Hoborg he had created, no doubt that his work is very appreciated! thanks!

Dor

As usual, to celebrate the release of the new version we (Ubuntu Israel) had a meeting at Gane Yehoshua, on the grass (or more on the legs, since we were all standing).

We were about 25 – 30 people at the meeting, most were active Ubuntu or Linux users.

It was real nice to meet new faces of some new users, and of course to meet the
"old guys" that i had the pleasure to see in the second and the third time.

Thanks to Karmit (good time to mention she's a great person!) we had some Yummy Chocolate balls sculptured as penguins! is that cool or what?!

Like every time, we bought a pizza and some cola, talked about Linux, Ubuntu, our community and the changes we're having lately.

It was real fun, can't wait for next Ubuntu on the grass, for the 1010 release
Hope next time we'll have more pictures… we had real few (and credit goes to Moshe and Boaz)

Dor.

It was a lovely peaceful day, when a little koala announced to his friends…

Of course it made the young lynx quite nervous…

Oh no! will the lynx take the koala's place? since when cows know how to speak? and most important: how Timon the meerkat from Lion King is related to that?!

All that an more… at our special double ten release! (in six months of course)

EDIT: Holly cow! I have just noticed this is the 1010 post! I can swear it's not in purpose :O