Found this cheesy before and after photo interpretation of Ubuntu Beryl. Whoever did it, thanks for inspiring me. Now for an Ubuntu Compiz before and after picture. Coming soon.
Incollector is a great information collector for Linux and Windows which I use to store interesting snippets and pieces of code. Unfortunately it doesn’t have a ppa and the latest edition 1.2 wouldn’t run on Karmic. No problem, all it takes is a quick hack.
1. Open terminal and enter command:
sudo gedit /usr/bin/incollector
2. Find line:
#!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/mono /usr/lib/incollector/incollector.exe $MONO_EXTRA_ARGS “$@”
3. Change it to:
#!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/mono --runtime=v2.0.50727 /usr/lib/incollector/incollector.exe $MONO_EXTRA_ARGS “$@”
4. Save the file.
5. Start Incollector
There are a number of options available for taking snapshots of your system. The three which seem to be the best, at least from an ex-Apple users perspective are Back-in-Time , Flyback and TimeVault. I wish one of them was included in the default distribution, but I guess that would mean chosing one project and alienating another project. Since Back-in-Time seems to be the newer kid on the block, I have chosen it for my own machine, but would love to hear about users experiencs with any of the three options. While you at it, you might want to compare them to Apple’s Time Machine.
Flyback - the lightweight alternative?
Jono Bacon’s solution to long distance learning and user participation in Ubuntu Open conferences has finally arrived relatively bug-free in Karmic with less than three weeks to go before the inaugral March 1 Ubuntu Opportunitic Developer Week. Which all sounds a bit like an infection? Earlier releases of the programme had simply refused to run on my machine so I took the rash move of copypasting the error message directly onto Bacon’s blog. Sorry mate. No time to file a bug report, but I expected a fever and this could just be the antidote. Bacon says: “While at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Dallas I mentioned in one of the roundtables about how wicked-cool it would be to have a desktop client for … online tuition events that we run.”
“One of the challenges we face every time we run these events is helping new community members figure out how IRC works. Ideally this should be as simple as running a program, selecting an event and connecting.”
” On the flight home I hacked up a little quickly app to get started on this. It is called Lernid.”
http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/11/25/introducing-lernid/
To install:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lernid-devs/lernid-releases sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install lernid
There is also a ppa for daily releases
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/lernid-devs/lernid-daily/ubuntu karmic main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/lernid-devs/lernid-daily/ubuntu karmic main
More info
Been looking everywhere for the Ubuntu Anthem sung by Brenda Fassie. So in lieu of the Qween of Kwela, here is the 2007 Speak New Words Contest Finalist, Terryl Dozier with a haunting theme and spoken word combination for Umuntu Ngumuntu Ngabantu
Installing the fonts:
1. From the Linux terminal, download Mac fonts with this command:
$ wget http://ubuntu-debs.googlecode.com/files/macfonts.tar.gz
2. Untar or extract the downloaded file:
$ tar zxvf macfonts.tar.gz
3. Move macfonts folder to the /fonts directory:
$ sudo mv macfonts /usr/share/fonts/
4. Reload the font cache:
$ sudo fc-cache -f -v
Using the fonts:
Application font: Lucida MAC 10
Document font: Lucida MAC 10
Desktop font: Lucida MAC 10
Window title font: LucidaMacBold 10
Fixed width font: Lucida Console 10
That’s about it. Enjoy your new fonts.
You may also like this article: Download 100+ Free Fonts for Ubuntu
This posting courtesy of Tech Source From Bohol
Just a note to say the Ubuntusphere is growing and is probably the largest collection of Ubuntu-related links in the Southern Hemisphere. If you have a link or a site which you feel needs to be listed, please ethnopunk at telkomsa.net and I’ll consider it for inclusion. Also, any ideas about a graphic? I know a sphere would look good, and we all know the Ubuntu logo is spherical. But exactly how to go about illustrating the idea? I was thinking the Ubuntusphere is more about an ecosystem of sites, an Ubuntucology if you will. If you have any ideas, please fire away.
I think this app takes the cake in terms of catchy nomenclature. A password manager that actually sounds like it could be a password manager and which offers encryption. What more could one want? Well there are a couple of gripes. Firstly Revelation expects me to enter each new password into a card file system manually. Each new entry thus taking up valuable time. Secondly it doesn’t appear to interface with any other applications and especially the browsers which store my passwords.
Admittedly getting software to do this would mean some deep level programming. But surely a way of removing the inconveniance of entering passwords online in Ubuntu would be a lifesaver, especially if you are like me and routinely muck around and lose configuration files (along with the damn keys). However, I am not a cryptofreak. The best locked door in cyberspace is probably a door that doesn’t need a lock or a password.
So as far as this simple password database are concerned, Revelation is the nicest crypto cardfile I’ve seen in a long time.
sudo apt-get install revelation
I’ve always believed that while sudo may translate into the sue and do of the computer world, ubuntu is really code for please. A nice way of saying let’s do this or let the community join in, because it is really thanks to the community that we are able to provide the means to achieve personal goals. If you don’t have time to create a script or just want something to happen at such and such a time without opening a terminal. DoThisNow is a great little scheduler applet which also gives users a modicum of control over events.
There are many sites offering bad advice for removing menu delay (as I did), e.g. http://lifehacker.com/software/linux…enu-269934.php.
These sites tell you to create ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and then add ‘gtk-menu-popup-delay = 0″| tee -a .gtkrc-2.0′. That’s wrong.
It should be either:
* create file ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and add ‘gtk-menu-popup-delay = 0′
or
* run in terminal ‘echo “gtk-menu-popup-delay = 0″| tee -a .gtkrc-2.0′
Either delete ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and do one of the two methods above, or edit the file as needed.
You’ll know if you’ve done it the wrong way if you get this error message:
error: scanner: unterminated string constant – e.g. `style’
Thanks to Wesley and David_1cog for pointing this out.
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