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Official Reference for Using Ubuntu on Acer Aspire One

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

ubuntu-documentation-logoMy AA1 dual boots between XP and Ubuntu. There are some hardware issues with Ubuntu out of the box but there are easy solutions available. After updating the kernel I forgot how I got the wifi going again.

Luckily, I found an official Acer Aspire One Ubuntu support reference on the Ubuntu Community website..

Using Java in Windows Command Prompt

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

It seems that the Java Runtime Environment installer doesn’t automatically add the binary path of java and javac to the system environment variables, so the ‘java’ and ‘javac’ commands can’t be used without a path. For example, when you type “javac test.java” while in your test project directory, you might get the following message:

javac’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

The solution to this problem is pretty simple and should take less than two minutes to solve, so let’s solve it… (more…)