Since I don't intend to maintain the pprogrammer blog anymore I've decided to write in both English and Farsi languages here.
Also I was very busy during last week and I was not able to update my blog. I hope to be more active during this week.
For the first time in my Ubuntu life I had to reinstall it! :( Unfortunately Operating Systems sometimes crash so terrible that you have to install everything from the ground up. I have installed it from a USB drive and it took me just 10 min to get a fresh new Jaunty up and running! So far so good but I went through the headache of installing my favorite programs!
In moments like this I think having some sort of online OS is very desirable (I believe Google intends to offer a full online solution in coming years). I want all my configurations and settings be on some sort of online service that can be easily synchronised with Ubuntu. For example the sources.list file which contains all my repositories is a good candidate for this service. But as I know there is no such service available yet :(
This time I stored the PPA's repositories and their keys in my Google Docs account. I will need them later. I hope this process get automated.
But fortunately there is a decent way for Firefox extension management. Mozilla add-on website now offers a new (At least new for me) feature called collections. All you have to do is to register an account and start making collections. I believe the main purpose of this feature is sharing your collections with friends (Aren't we living in Web 2.0 era?) This feature was such a relief for me. As a side effect I made a personal collection for myself. You can see my collection here: My collection
After Ubuntu installed successfully I lead Firefox to my personal collection page and clicked on the extensions to be installed. One restart after I had all my beloved extensions :)
If you have such optimism in laziness ;) share your ideas about these kind of automation here! The question is how you install and configure everything after a fresh Ubuntu install.
Also I was very busy during last week and I was not able to update my blog. I hope to be more active during this week.
For the first time in my Ubuntu life I had to reinstall it! :( Unfortunately Operating Systems sometimes crash so terrible that you have to install everything from the ground up. I have installed it from a USB drive and it took me just 10 min to get a fresh new Jaunty up and running! So far so good but I went through the headache of installing my favorite programs!
In moments like this I think having some sort of online OS is very desirable (I believe Google intends to offer a full online solution in coming years). I want all my configurations and settings be on some sort of online service that can be easily synchronised with Ubuntu. For example the sources.list file which contains all my repositories is a good candidate for this service. But as I know there is no such service available yet :(
This time I stored the PPA's repositories and their keys in my Google Docs account. I will need them later. I hope this process get automated.
But fortunately there is a decent way for Firefox extension management. Mozilla add-on website now offers a new (At least new for me) feature called collections. All you have to do is to register an account and start making collections. I believe the main purpose of this feature is sharing your collections with friends (Aren't we living in Web 2.0 era?) This feature was such a relief for me. As a side effect I made a personal collection for myself. You can see my collection here: My collection
After Ubuntu installed successfully I lead Firefox to my personal collection page and clicked on the extensions to be installed. One restart after I had all my beloved extensions :)
If you have such optimism in laziness ;) share your ideas about these kind of automation here! The question is how you install and configure everything after a fresh Ubuntu install.
I used to have a list of steps for a fresh install, such as last backup and step by step installation of my routing applications.
پاسخحذفstoring sources.list in google docs is a good idea, i should do it soon!
You can export your installed packages list from within synaptic for later reinstallation.
About collections, i saw it yesterday in mozilla website, it's really cool idea. i use to have my packages sources and extensions offline but installing new versions is a nightmare without access to internet.
did you moved your home partition to keep your applications configuration? I place my home folder in a seperate partition so removing whole os does remove programs config files.
You have a cool blog, i'm ever visitor :)