tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9883602262749658882011-11-27T22:04:15.012-03:00Assorted Technology News and tips.Sebastian Geraldeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05339849877134546596noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-988360226274965888.post-47652000674544294872010-10-27T23:26:00.004-03:002010-10-27T23:30:05.155-03:00

Nautilus started to freeze a few days ago, I haven't really looked up to what was underneath until I had to clean up and archive my documents. After some digging around, it turned out Vineyard (a wine configuration tool) was the culprit. As it turned out, the author on the tool published this on a bug tracker and instructions on how to fix."As the author of Vineyard, I can confirm that one of

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If you are studying for the PMP exam, then you need some kind of exam simulation tool like PM Fastrack. The problem is that it's not available for Linux and only works on Windows.I solved this by finding a way to make it work with Wine.Instructions are as follows:1) Install the latest Wine using apt-get. In a terminal type: # sudo apt-get install wine2) Download winetricks. # wget http://

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If you are working in Windows 7, either the 32 or 64 bits versions, and you are as annoyed as I am by having every little app just wondering around in the "superbar", this trick may be for you. It simple eliminates the program from the taskbar while the main window is not open and put it back to the system tray as in Windows Vista / XP / 2000.The trick is to run msnmsgr.exe in Vista compatibility

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Installing Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) 64 bits in IBM Thinkpad T61 General Information Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) was released on 29 October 2009. Hardware Support Details UntestedActive Protection System: unknown Card Reader: unknown Bluetooth: unknown Modem: unknown FireWire (IEEE1394): unknown ACPI Suspend: works running the restricted 185 nvidia driver Hibernate: unknown Tested:

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I was given a rather unusual task to perform. It involved typing information from several sources into 5 different applications. As I'm not a fun of this type of work, I immediately derived my efforts into a rather automatic way, creating my own merging application that is.With that in mind, the first problem I encountered was the dissimilarities in formats between the appliactions. One striked

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Firefox 3 Beta only: If you've taken the plunge into testing the brand new Firefox 3 betabut your favorite extensions are disabled, that's because developershaven't updated them and may not be providing secure updates yet. Ifyou're an impatient risk-taker who needs your extensions back NOW,here's a cheat that may get them to work. Big Honking Warning: Only do this if you're willing to deal with

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For those of you seeing strange and unreasonably large font sizes in Firefox 3 on Ubuntu 8.04, try setting the “layout.css.dpi” (via about:config) to 72 or 96. Either of those values should set all fonts to a reasonable size.This should have been fixed by now in the final version, but it might help someone who still suffer this problem.

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I've been running Ubuntu 8.04 Beta for quite some time. Now that the final version is out I decided to make a clean sheet and install it over from scratch to remove all the quirks I added by testing. My setup is the following:Intel Centrino Pro (Core 2 Duo) T7300(2GHz)Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100Intel PRO/Wireless 4965AGN Mini-PCI Express AdapterAD1984 HD Audio controller 4-in-1 Memory

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Regular commands I use every day in Linux plus a few eclectic ones. Basically geared to the new user. Tips or thoughts, please let me know. Man pages In Linux there is a manual for just about anything. Learn about almost everything by “man command” in the terminal. (e.g. man ls). Or type “command –help” for a basic description. Also, many man pages also cover configuration files (man resolv.conf)

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Thankfully the people at Mozilla decided to include the expected functionality for the XF86Back and XF86Forward keysyms in the new release so all you need to do is:# printf 'keycode 234 = XF86Back\nkeycode 233 = XF86Forward' >> /etc/X11/XmodmapAnd to make this take effect immediately (i.e., without having to log out and log in again), as a regular user run:$ Xmodmap /etc/X11/XmodmapFor

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If your LCD Panel resolution is not listed by VMware on your Windows Guest, you will need to manually modify your Host configuration. For that, find the vmx that keeps the config and edit it. $ nano "~/vmware/Windows XP Professional/Windows XP Professional.vmx"and enter the lines:svga.maxWidth = "1440"svga.maxHeight = "900"

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You may have noticed that the background color turns light brown for a second before and after login. If you had, then you probably noticed it because you changed the default GDM login or the background in gnome.Turns out the program is straight in the login manager. Specifically, in the file /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default. Thankfully, it’s easy to fix with a text editor.So from the command line

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Unfortunately my t60 was stolen last week with all my notes on the progress, luckily enought for some, I had some backup on my office's intranet which I'll share with you on installing ubuntu on a Thinkpad T60. The following are my personal steps for installing ubuntu on the Thinkpad T60. Yours might vary and this is by no means an official guide, it's just my personal notes on how to do it. Also

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I use AT&T Global Network Client to connect to my office, also called MTS by big blue (IBM). On the AT&T website you can download the latest version, only that it is a rpm package. So I converted the rpm to deb to be able to install it on my distro with the default deb package manager.Download the installer: agnclient_1.0~2.0.0.3000-1.1_i386.debYou may need to install tcl as a dependency. In a

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Ubuntu Tweak is an application designed to config Ubuntu easier for everyone. It provided many usefull desktop and system options that the default desktop environment isn’t provided. At present, It is only designed for Ubuntu GNOME Desktop, and often follows the newest Ubuntu distribution. Features of Ubuntu Tweak: View of Basic System Information(Distribution, Kernel, CPU, Memory, etc.) GNOME

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Murrine is an Italian word meaning the glass artworks done by Venicians glass blowers. Murrine Engine is a Gtk2 engine that will make your desktop look like a beautiful Murrina (which is the italian singular of Murrine). Features: Modern, Clean, Shiny desktop experience.Antialiased widgets using Cairo libraries.Highly customizable trough an optional GUI, the Murrine Configurator.Good rendering

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DISCLAIMER: I do my best to keep the packages in this repo high-quality. However, 3rd party repositories such as this one are completely unsupported by Ubuntu. Any problems caused by this repo should be reported to me in this thread, not to Ubuntu.Before we begin, make sure you have all the needed ubuntu repositories installed, namely universe and ubuntu-updates. This can be done in System ->

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Trying to run compiz and getting the following output? Code: Blacklisted PCIID '8086:2972' found This means your video card has been blacklisted due to driver issues. This applies to some Radeon Mobility cards, Radeon rv350 and rv450 cards, and the Intel 965 (X3000, X3100). You can dodge that blacklist (at your own peril) with the following: Code: mkdir -p ~/.config/compiz/ && echo

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picture taken from http://dengpeng.name/blog/index.php?s=%E5%B7%A6%E5%8F%B3I know some of the guys like me who uses Magic Lamp effect of Compiz appreciate MacOSX’s “genie effect” very much. To some extent, I can say that Magic Lamp is born to imitate this visual eye-candy. But you may find out that in recent Compiz versions, the lowest possible value of the parameter minimum waves of Magic

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