Category Archives: Ubuntu Planet

Sending Ubuntu badges and CDs, hooray!

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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.

How to install Dropbox without having a GUI

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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 🙂

Great Hoborg is under control

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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.

Great Hoborg
Great Hoborg (source)

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

Dor 🙂

Ubuntu on the grass 10.04

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"Hotter than a burning fox"

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).

Talking...
Talking…

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

And talking...
And talking…

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.

"...did you here about Ubunchu...? look what Martin Owens sent us from Anime Boston..."
“…did you hear about Ubunchu…? look what Martin Owens sent us from Anime Boston…” (i’m on the left)

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?!

Chocolate Penguins
Chocolate Penguins

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

smile!
smile!

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)

Want some?
Want some?

Dor.