Tried to install AWN on my desktop today. After installing a custom theme, AWN told me to enable compiz first. Each time I tried to start Compiz it would crash. After a little search on the Internet I found the following. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1488662 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1468351 Turns out I didn’t completely installed Compiz. After running this command in [...]
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TFTP GUI for Linux
This program is a TFTP server. It is intended to run as a user initiated program, rather than a service daemon, and displays a gui interface allowing the user to stop and start the tftp server. It provides a simple tftp server for engineers to download and upload configuration files from equipment such as routers [...]
Ubuntu 10.04 Post-Install Guide: What to do and try after installing Lucid Lynx!
What to do and try after installing Lucid Lynx? Read this article and find out. http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2010/04/ubuntu-1004-post-install-guide-what-to.html Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Share on technorati Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend
Ubuntu 10.04 with Brother DCP-357c
My home computer is still running Windows XP. The main reason for this is my printer. It’s a Brother DCP-357c. For a long time I tried to make it work under Ubuntu. I was giving up the hope that it would ever work. After upgrading my laptop to Ubuntu 10.04 I thought to give it [...]
Ubuntu with DNS problems
At work we need to manage multiple windows domains. After a fresh install of Ubuntu the only computers I can reach are the ones in our primary domain. To reach the other computers I need to edit /etc/nsswitch.conf This file tells Linux where to look for name service information. It should look like this: hosts: [...]
Change the Evolution smtp port number
When you want to send your mail with Evolution over a different port than 25 try this. Click on Edit -> Preferences -> Double click on your mail account -> Click on Sending Email tab -> Then for your host: all you need to do is add the port number to the end like this [...]
Furius ISO Mount Tool
I wanted to mount a ISO file in Ubuntu 10.04 Just installed Furius ISO Mount Tool sudo apt-get install furiusisomount Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Share on technorati Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Bookmark in Browser Tell [...]
Fine tune the Local Settings of Ubuntu
I like my installation in English. Most of the solution you’ll find on the internet are in English. So I installed my laptop with Ubuntu 10.04 ( Lucid Lynx ) in English. One of the first things that annoys me is the clock. It shows the time in Am / Pm format. Date, time and [...]
Move window title bar buttons back to the right
In Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ( Lucid Lynx ) the buttons in the window title bar ( maximize, minimize and close ) are moved to the left. If you don’t like this you can easily change it back to the right. Install Ubuntu Tweak from : http://ubuntu-tweak.com/ Run it and go to Window Manager settings Under [...]
Scan a subnet for active IPs
With NMap it is quite easy to scan a subnet for active IPs. $ nmap -sP 192.168.10.0/24 Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Share on technorati Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend
