https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Quickly
sudo apt-get install quickly
quickly tutorial ubuntu-project
Dec 312009
Dec 302009
To start new with pulseaudio:
pulseaudio --kill
rm -rf ~/.pulse ~/.pulse-cookie
pulseaudio --start
Then check access to the soundcard:
sudo lsof | grep /dev/snd
which returns:
pulseaudi 5173 philipp 20u CHR 116,10 0t0 3632 /dev/snd/controlC0
pulseaudi 5173 philipp 26u CHR 116,10 0t0 3632 /dev/snd/controlC0
So I killed pulseaudio using:
sudo kill 5173
resources
I worked on this according to this post on ubuntuforums.
Dec 282009
To remove the new splashscreen introduced in karmic koala run:
sudo apt-get remove xsplash ubuntu-xsplash-artwork
Dec 272009
http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/post/2207175/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8367187
Sound after login: System → Preferences → Startup Applications → GNOME-Login-Sound : remove check
To disable the system ready drums:
sudo mv /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/system-ready.ogg /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/system-ready-off.ogg
Enter The gdm Configuration (not related to the deactivation of the start sound mentioned above)
Log off and change to a virtual terminal using [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[F(1-6)]
Log in there and enter:
export DISPLAY=:0.0
sudo -u gdm gnome-control-center
Then change back to the xserver using [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[F7], enter your settings and log in when done.
(To get rid of an annoying accessibility icon do gconftool-2 -t bool -s /desktop/gnome/accessibility/keyboard/enable false.)
Dec 252009
When you don’t want other software (like network manager) to mess with your DNS server settings, make /etc/resolv.conf immutable:
sudo chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf
It can be undone like this:
sudo chattr -i /etc/resolv.conf
resources
Dec 242009
- Download ArgoUML-0.xx.tar.gz
- Decompress it into your
~/bin/(or/bin) directory - and then create a symlink to
argouml.shin~/bin/:
ln -s $HOME/bin/argouml-0.28/argouml.sh $HOME/bin/argouml - Now run the app by executing
argouml
or run the webstart:
javaws http://argouml-downloads.tigris.org/jws/argouml-latest-stable.jnlp
resources
- http://argouml.tigris.org/
- http://www.getdeb.net/app/ArgoUML quite a recent version! yet to try!
- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1159216
Dec 212009
Edit the configuration file of the SSH daemon:
sudo gedit /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Change the line containing PermitRootLogin yes to PermitRootLogin no , save the file and restart the SSH server.
sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart
Dec 182009
Use dos2unix from the tofrodos package to convert files with Windows (DOS) style CRLF (carriage return and line feed) line endings to Unix style LF (linefeed only) line endings. Install as follows:
sudo aptitude install tofrodos
How you use the tool:
dos2unix dosfile.txt
Dec 162009
If you want to convert files from one encoding to another you want to use the tool iconv:
iconv -f WINDOWS-1252 -t UTF-8 about.txt > about.utf.txt
The above command converts the about.txt input file from the old West-European encoding ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 and saves the result to about.utf.txt.
The command iconv --list lists the supported encodings. Included are:
WINDOWS-1252LATIN1!ISO_8859-1!ISO_8859-15!UNICODEUNICODEBIGUNICODELITTLEUS-ASCIIUSUTF-7UTF-8!UTF-16UTF-16BEUTF-16LEUTF-32UTF-32BEUTF-32LEUTF7
Dec 152009
My network interface is a Intel PRO/1000 PT Dual-Port-Server-Adapter (PCIe x4) (chipset: Intel 82571GB). It provides two physical links that I use both: One for my private subnet and one as the public interface to the public network (Internet via 100Mbit Ethernet at KHG, University of Frankfurt am Main). I call the public network WAN.
Previously the public network provided me with an IP using DHCP and so my /etc/network/interfaces was set to: