121002340010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@^txt2regex$: Regular Expression Tool To Create Regex from Description@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@^txt2regex$ is a lifesaver.@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It helps you create regular expression strings in a step by step process, by describing what your regex pattern should do in English (or your own language).@@@@1@27@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The tool can create RegExes for use with 23 different programs, including sed, vim, mysql, and procmail.@@@@1@17@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@When you start the program, it will ask you a series of questions like “@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@1. do you want to start matching at the beginning of lines?@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@or 2. search anywhere?” and “this is followed by….@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A specific character…” etc… download it and run it and you will see.@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Anyone who has worked with regular expressions for searching and optionally replacing stuff in files knows what a godsend then can be if you get the regex down pat – but they would also know what a time sink they can be if you can’t whip up exactly what you want.@@@@1@51@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the past, when faced with this kind of a situation, I would read man pages, books, experiment, fail and then, finally, succeed after a good half hour or so.@@@@1@30@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340120@unknown@formal@none@1@S@txt2regex is a tool that eliminates the confusion.@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340130@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Totally.@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340140@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You can install txt2regex on Ubuntu by doing a: @@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340150@unknown@formal@none@1@@Among its features include the ability to print a list of characteristics of the regular expression syntax for various tools, a history tool which keeps track of you past regexes, and some pre-built regexes that are often used – for dates, times and numbers.@@@@0@44@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340160@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For example, will create the regex for all supported tools.@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340170@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The regex will match a number of the form “34,412,069.90″@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340180@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Here’s the output:@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340190@unknown@formal@none@1@S@carthik\smilan:~$ txt2regex --all --make number3 ### number LEVEL 3: level 2 plus optional commas, like: 34,412,069.90 RegEx awk : [+-]?[0-9]!!(,[0-9]!!)*(\\.[0-9]!!)?@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340200@unknown@formal@none@1@S@RegEx ed : [+-]\\?[0-9]\\{1,3\\}\\(,[0-9]\\{3\\}\\)*\\(\\.[0-9]\\{2\\}\\)\\?@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340210@unknown@formal@none@1@S@RegEx egrep : [+-]?[0-9]{1,3}(,[0-9]{3})*(\\.[0-9]{2})?@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340220@unknown@formal@none@1@S@RegEx emacs : [+-]?[0-9]!!\\(,[0-9]!!\\)*\\(\\.[0-9]!!\\)?@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340230@unknown@formal@none@1@S@RegEx expect : [+-]?[0-9]!!(,[0-9]!!)*(\\.[0-9]!!)?@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340240@unknown@formal@none@1@S@RegEx find : [+-]?[0-9]!!\\(,[0-9]!!\\)*\\(\\.[0-9]!!\\)?@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340250@unknown@formal@none@1@S@RegEx gawk : [+-]?[0-9]{1,3}(,[0-9]{3})*(\\.[0-9]{2})?@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340260@unknown@formal@none@1@S@RegEx grep : [+-]\\?[0-9]\\{1,3\\}\\(,[0-9]\\{3\\}\\)*\\(\\.[0-9]\\{2\\}\\)\\?@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340270@unknown@formal@none@1@S@RegEx javascript: [+-]?[0-9]{1,3}(,[0-9]{3})*(\\.[0-9]{2})?@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340280@unknown@formal@none@1@S@RegEx lex : [+-]?[0-9]{1,3}(,[0-9]{3})*(\\.[0-9]{2})?@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340290@unknown@formal@none@1@S@RegEx lisp : [+-]?[0-9]!!\\\\(,[0-9]!!\\\\)*\\\\(\\\\.[0-9]!!\\\\)?@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340300@unknown@formal@none@1@S@RegEx mawk : [+-]?[0-9]!!(,[0-9]!!)*(\\.[0-9]!!)?@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340310@unknown@formal@none@1@S@RegEx mysql : [+-]?[0-9]{1,3}(,[0-9]{3})*(\\\\.[0-9]{2})?@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340320@unknown@formal@none@1@S@RegEx ooo : [+-]?[0-9]{1,3}(,[0-9]{3})*(\\.[0-9]{2})?@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340330@unknown@formal@none@1@S@RegEx perl : [+-]?[0-9]{1,3}(,[0-9]{3})*(\\.[0-9]{2})?@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340340@unknown@formal@none@1@S@RegEx php : [+-]?[0-9]{1,3}(,[0-9]{3})*(\\.[0-9]{2})?@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340350@unknown@formal@none@1@S@RegEx postgres : [+-]?[0-9]{1,3}(,[0-9]{3})*(\\\\.[0-9]{2})?@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340360@unknown@formal@none@1@S@RegEx procmail : [+-]?[0-9]!!(,[0-9]!!)*(\\.[0-9]!!)?@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340370@unknown@formal@none@1@S@RegEx python : [+-]?[0-9]{1,3}(,[0-9]{3})*(\\.[0-9]{2})?@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340380@unknown@formal@none@1@S@RegEx sed : [+-]\\?[0-9]\\{1,3\\}\\(,[0-9]\\{3\\}\\)*\\(\\.[0-9]\\{2\\}\\)\\?@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340390@unknown@formal@none@1@S@RegEx tcl : [+-]?[0-9]!!(,[0-9]!!)*(\\.[0-9]!!)?@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340400@unknown@formal@none@1@S@RegEx vbscript : [+-]?[0-9]{1,3}(,[0-9]{3})*(\\.[0-9]{2})?@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340410@unknown@formal@none@1@S@RegEx vi : [+-]\\{0,1\\}[0-9]\\{1,3\\}\\(,[0-9]\\{3\\}\\)*\\(\\.[0-9]\\{2\\}\\)\\{0,1\\} RegEx vim : [+-]\\=[0-9]\\{1,3}\\(,[0-9]\\{3}\\)*\\(\\.[0-9]\\{2}\\)\\=@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340420@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ prints out a short help message@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340430@unknown@formal@none@1@S@and | gives some more info.@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340450@unknown@formal@none@1@S@What would be handy is if txt2regex had an extension that allowed one to deconstruct a regex – give it a regex and it tells you what it does in plain English.@@@@1@32@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340460@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Also, I cannot seem to create regexes for the mod_rewrite module in apache.@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340470@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I suspect that since mod_rewrite supports POSIX regexes, I could just run with one or the other of the regexes created by txt2regex.@@@@1@23@@danf@28-5-2012 121002340480@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Since I haven’t tried it, I can’t say which one of the 23, just yet.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 121002350010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Gutsy Gibbon Archives Open@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 121002350020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sure as clockwork, work on the next version of Ubuntu has started.@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 121002350030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I was wondering what the collective noun used for the testing releases would be.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 121002350040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We’ve had an “Array” of Hedgehogs, a “Herd” of Fawns, a “Knot” of Efts, a “Sounder” of Warthogs, a “Colony” of Badgers, a “Flight” of Drakes.@@@@1@26@@danf@28-5-2012 121002350050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I was hoping they would choose a “Machination” of Gibbons (“a machination of monkeys” exists), but no, we have the simpler, more functional “tribe”.@@@@1@24@@danf@28-5-2012 121002350060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@So the testing releases will be called Tribe 1, Tribe 2 etc…@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 123000010010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@FC6 on desktop PC@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 123000010020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But sakes alive!@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 123000010030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There is repository livna.org which includes compiled binary ‘nvidia’ modules for different Fedora Core versions and kernels: to enable this repo just execute the following command with root rights:@@@@1@29@@danf@28-5-2012 123000010040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@su -; rpm -Uvh http://www.fedorafaq.org/yum http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 123000010050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo rpm -Uvh http://www.fedorafaq.org/yum http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 123000010060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After this tons of additional software for your FC6 are available for downloading!@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 123000010070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@To install nvidia Geforce4 support you can do: yum install kmod-nvidia-96xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-96xx@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 123000010080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Please note that Geforce4 and Geforce2 aren’t supported by latest 1.0-97xx nvidia driver series and you should install 96xx one.@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 123000010090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That’s why I installed kmod-nvidia-96xx and xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-96xx instead of kmod-nvidia and xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 123000010100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Hope it helps somebody!@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 123000010110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Aver Media 305 works fine under FC6 too:@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 123000290010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Debug web application by showing web server headers@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 123000300010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Fedora Core remote installation howto@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 123000300020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@To get it done it’s enough to ask somebody who has physical access to server to boot up with Fedora Core installation compact disk and type one command.@@@@1@28@@danf@28-5-2012 123000300030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@All the rest you can do by yourselves from any PC located at the same network.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 123000300040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@When Fedora CD is booted above mentioned person will see at the following screen:@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 123000300050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ask him (or her) to type command at “boot:” prompt (in one line):@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 123000300060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@text telnet ip=[ip.address] netmask=[netmask] gateway=[gateway.address] ksdevice=[ethernet.device]@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 123000300070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For example:@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 123000300080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@text telnet ip=192.168.0.123 netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.0.1 ksdevice=/dev/eth1@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 123000300090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Where IP address 192.168.0.123/24 will be assigned to eth1 NIC of server you’re going to install.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 123000300100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ksdevice refers to your Ethernet network card (NIC) designation (if there only one NIC just omit ksdevice).@@@@1@17@@danf@28-5-2012 123000300110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After it’s done you can connect to server via telnet command, for example:@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 123000300120@unknown@formal@none@1@S@telnet 192.168.0.123@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 123000300130@unknown@formal@none@1@S@and proceed installation.@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 123000300140@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Please note that it would take some time before you can login as Fedora’s anaconda installer will be loading telnet server.@@@@1@21@@danf@28-5-2012 123000300150@unknown@formal@none@1@S@During remote installation it’s impossible to switch consoles.@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 123000300160@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Make sure you’ve set proper settings for your NIC(s) as after reboot previous IP settings will be lost.@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 123000300170@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After installation is finished and server is rebooted you can login to fresh Fedora via ssh (with root login).@@@@1@19@@danf@28-5-2012 123000300180@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You may also be interested in: Fully automated Fedora Linux installation manual (create custom installation cd)@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 123000430010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Make a copy of virtual machine with Vmware Server@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 123000430020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@First of all, we need to find where all our virtual machines are in our system.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 123000430030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After small search I’ve found vmware files in /var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines.@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 123000430040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There are some set of directories each corresponds to some of your already created virtual machines.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 123000430050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In my case I was interested in cloning virtual machine with name db1 to new machine db2 and then to db3.@@@@1@21@@danf@28-5-2012 123000430060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Continue reading about virtual machines cloning with Vmware Server…@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 123000430070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Probably you’re interested also in: Vmware Server at Ubuntu Feisty 7.04@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 123000450010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Web server cluster with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 123000450020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Our examples are based on standard SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES10) installations, but savvy users of other distributions should be able to adapt the methods shown here.@@@@1@28@@danf@28-5-2012 123000450030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Continue reading…@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 123000510010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Keep contacts and calendar/datebook of Motorola Razr V3 saved@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 123000510020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I’d like to mention that advantage of this method is that it doesn’t matter what operating system you use, it can be Linux, Apple Mac or even M$ Window$.@@@@1@29@@danf@28-5-2012 123000510030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@All operations are done with any browser you use.@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 123000510040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@First of all register new account at ZYB or login to existing one at www.zyb.com.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 123000510050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After first successful login you’ll be suggested to register your mobile phone model with the online system.@@@@1@17@@danf@28-5-2012 123000510060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Just choose your model in a wide phone models list.@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 123000510070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In my case I choose Motorola Razr V3.@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 123000510080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In order to upload your phone contacts to your contacts and calendar/datebok data to ZYB perform the following operations with your Motorola Razr v3:@@@@1@24@@danf@28-5-2012 123000510090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@When sync is done you’ll see your contacts at your personal ZYB page.@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 123000510100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It’s very comfortable to edit them online and then sync with your Razr V3 by performing 13 step of above operations list.@@@@1@22@@danf@28-5-2012 123000510110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ZYB provides a feature that allows to sync data between many mobile phones you own.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 123000510120@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Many phone models are supported, so it would be useful to check if it is supported by ZYB before buying it @@@@1@22@@danf@28-5-2012 123000510130@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You may also be interested in: EV-DO Internet access with Ubuntu Linux Download and convert YouTube video online and offline Inimitable wallpapers, icons and themes for Linux@@@@1@27@@danf@28-5-2012 123000730010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Web server on bash (in one line!)@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 123000730020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You can download it here.@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 123000730030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Just run it and then load web page http://192.168.0.7:8080, where 192.168.0.7 is IP address of the Linux machine you’ve started above mentioned bash script.@@@@1@24@@danf@28-5-2012 123000730040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You’ll see links to files located in directory the script was started at.@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 123000730050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@My respect to Alexey Sveshnikov.@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 123000730060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@P.S. Script was tested at Ubuntu and Debian Linux.@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 123000770010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Simple way to transmit files over network (nc utility)@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 123000770020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But here is useful tip on how to transmit files over network with no need to install and configure any service at server: just run at Linux or Unix server simple command:@@@@1@32@@danf@28-5-2012 123000770030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@nc -l -p 12345 < /etc/apache/httpd.conf@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 123000770040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After this file /etc/apache/httpd.conf will be available at 12345 TCP port at any server’s IP address.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 123000770050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@To get it just load http://192.168.0.7:12345 with any browser you like (192.168.0.7 is server’s IP) at client’s PC.@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 123000770060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After file is downloaded it’s impossible to download it again without restarting nc command.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 123000770070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Here are the results of my example:@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 123000770080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Theoretically it shouldn’t work as there are no web server headers like Content-type or Status.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 123000770081@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But it works.@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 123000770090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ideas why it’s so are highly appreciated @@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 123000770100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You might also be interested in: Web server on bash (in one line!)@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 123000900010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Linux pop-up terminal/console utilities@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 123000900020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@All of them are included into Ubuntu apt repository and can be installed by corresponding commands:@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 123000900030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo aptitude install yakuake sudo aptitude install tilda sudo aptitude install yeahconsole@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 123000900040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 123000900041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At the next screenshot you can see all three utilities run at my laptop.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 123000900050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Of course I don’t them all at once but prefer Tilda as the most comfortable for me.@@@@1@17@@danf@28-5-2012 123000900060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@YaKuake is designed for KDE and uses konsole to emulate terminal.@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 123000900070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Tilda and YaKuake have GUI configuration tool when Yeahconsole is configured by editing configuration file /usr/X11/Xresourses.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 123001280010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@openSUSE 10.3 is released@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 123001280020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On the desktop@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 123001280030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@
  • Beautiful Green Artwork
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  • Support for multiple operating systems (you can run the same Mercury version on Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux and Windows)
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  • USB Stick Support (all settings, chat logs, etc… will be saved on your USB stick)
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  • Be online with several MSN addresses at the same time (without starting a new program for every account)
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  • On screen display of events
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  • Movable event box (the window that shows events at the right bottom of your screen in MSN)
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  • Avatar scroller, automaticly change your avatar every 5 minutes
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  • Override someones avatar
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  • Enter notes while in a conversation you might need later (date of birth, last name, phone numbers
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  • And many more…
    • @@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 123001300160@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Download it from here.@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 123001300170@unknown@formal@none@1@S@@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 123001300180@unknown@formal@none@1@S@2. aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems.@@@@1@27@@danf@28-5-2012 123001300190@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It’s features list is impressive, you can get it here.@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 123001300200@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Download latest version from this page.@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Fun: Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X and DOS airlines@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Different styles.@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This humorous analogy, applying operating system philosophies as if they were airlines, is a long-standing much-circulated amusing story!@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@UNIX Airways@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Everyone brings one piece of the plane along when they come to the airport.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They all go out on the runway and put the plane together piece by piece, arguing non-stop about what kind of plane they are supposed to be building.@@@@1@28@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Air DOS@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Everybody pushes the airplane until it glides, then they jump on and let the plane coast until it hits the ground again.@@@@1@22@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Then they push again, jump on again, and so on…@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mac Airlines@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@All the stewards, captains, baggage handlers, and ticket agents look and act exactly the same.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320120@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Every time you ask questions about details, you are gently but firmly told that you don’t need to know, don’t want to know, and everything will be done for you without your ever having to know, so just shut up.@@@@1@40@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320130@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Windows Air@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320140@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The terminal is pretty and colorful, with friendly stewards, easy baggage check and boarding, and a smooth take-off.@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320150@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After about 10 minutes in the air, the plane explodes with no warning whatsoever.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320160@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Windows NT Air@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320170@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Just like Windows Air, but costs more, uses much bigger planes, and takes out all the other aircraft within a 40-mile radius when it explodes.@@@@1@25@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320180@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Windows XP Air@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320190@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You turn up at the airport, which is under contract to only allow XP Air planes.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320200@unknown@formal@none@1@S@All the aircraft are identical, brightly colored and three times as big as they need to be.@@@@1@17@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320210@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The signs are huge and all point the same way.@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320220@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Whichever way you go, someone pops up dressed in a cloak and pointed hat insisting you follow him.@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320230@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Your luggage and clothes are taken off you and replaced with an XP Air suit and suitcase identical to everyone around you as this is included in the exorbitant ticket cost.@@@@1@31@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320240@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The aircraft will not take off until you have signed a contract.@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320250@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The inflight entertainment promised turns out to be the same Mickey Mouse cartoon repeated over and over again.@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320260@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You have to phone your travel agent before you can have a meal or drink.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320270@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You are searched regularly throughout the flight.@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320280@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If you go to the toilet twice or more you get charged for a new ticket.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320290@unknown@formal@none@1@S@No matter what destination you booked you will always end up crash landing at Whistler in Canada.@@@@1@17@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320300@unknown@formal@none@1@S@OS X Air@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320310@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You enter a white terminal, and all you can see is a woman sitting in the corner behind a white desk, you walk up to get your ticket.@@@@1@28@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320320@unknown@formal@none@1@S@She smiles and says “Welcome to OS X Air, please allow us to take your picture”, at which point a camera in the wall you didn’t notice before takes your picture.@@@@1@31@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320330@unknown@formal@none@1@S@“Thank you, here is your ticket” You are handed a minimalistic ticket with your picture at the top, it already has all of your information.@@@@1@25@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320340@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A door opens to your right and you walk through.@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320350@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You enter a wide open space with one seat in the middle, you sit, listen to music and watch movies until the end of the flight.@@@@1@26@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320360@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You never see any of the other passengers.@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320370@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You land, get off, and you say to yourself “wow, that was really nice, but I feel like something was missing”@@@@1@21@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320380@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Windows Vista Airlines@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320390@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You enter a good looking terminal with the largest planes you have ever seen.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320400@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Every 10 feet a security officer appears and asks you if you are “sure” you want to continue walking to your plane and if you would like to cancel.@@@@1@29@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320410@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Not sure what cancel would do, you continue walking and ask the agent at the desk why the planes are so big.@@@@1@22@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320420@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After the security officer making sure you want to ask the question and you want to hear the answer, the agent replies that they are bigger because it makes customers feel better, but the planes are designed to fly twice as slow.@@@@1@42@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320430@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Adding the size helped achieve the slow fly goal.@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320440@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Once on the plane, every passenger has to be asked individually by the flight attendants if they are sure they want to take this flight.@@@@1@25@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320450@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Then it is company policy that the captain asks the passengers collectively the same thing.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320460@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After answering yes to so many questions, you are punched in the face by some stranger who when he asked “Are you sure you want me to punch you in the face?@@@@1@32@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320470@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Cancel or Allow?” you instinctively say “Allow”.@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 123001320480@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After takeoff, the pilots realize that the landing gear driver wasn’t u@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 123002430010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@FAQ: How to install and configure MySQL cluster?@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 123002430020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@By the way a cluster in IT field is a group of linked computers, working together so they form a single computing system.@@@@1@23@@danf@28-5-2012 123002430030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The components of a cluster are usually connected to each other via fast local area networks.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 123002430040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Clusters are usually deployed to improve performance and/or availability over that provided by a single computer, while typically being much more cost-effective than single computers of comparable speed or availability.@@@@1@30@@danf@28-5-2012 123002430050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysql-cluster.html@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 123002430060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@MySQL Cluster is a high-availability, high-redundancy version of MySQL adapted for the distributed computing environment.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 123002430070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It uses the NDBCLUSTER storage engine to enable running several MySQL servers in a cluster.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 123002430080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This storage engine is available in MySQL 5.0 binary releases and in RPMs compatible with most modern Linux distributions.@@@@1@19@@danf@28-5-2012 123002430090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mysql Cluster: The definitive HOWTO@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 123002430100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@How To Set Up A Load-Balanced MySQL Cluster@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 123002430110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This tutorial shows how to configure a MySQL 5 cluster with three nodes: two storage nodes and one management node.@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 123002430120@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This cluster is load-balanced by a high-availability load balancer that in fact has two nodes that use the Ultra Monkey package which provides heartbeat (for checking if the other node is still alive) and ldirectord (to split up the requests to the nodes of the MySQL cluster).@@@@1@47@@danf@28-5-2012 123002430130@unknown@formal@none@1@S@MySQL Cluster Server Setup@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 123002430140@unknown@formal@none@1@S@MySQL Cluser Server is a fault-tolerant, redundant, scalable database architecture built on the open-source MySQL application, and capable of delivering 99.999% reliability.@@@@1@22@@danf@28-5-2012 123002430150@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In this paper we describe the process we used to setup, configure, and test a three-node mySQL cluster server in a test environment.@@@@1@23@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Install Windows after Ubuntu Lucid Lynx@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I have to install Windows as the second operating system along with newly installed Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (it rocks but this is for another post) to run iTunes.@@@@1@28@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For rather long time I’ve been using gtkpod, amarok, banshee, exaile or rhythmbox to sync my ipod under Linux/Ubuntu and load my music collection there.@@@@1@25@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As we all know The Elder Brother Apple fights with interoperability and makes ipod/iphone users to use iTunes only.@@@@1@19@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Any other applications that can read/write to ipod data format are prohibited by Apple.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This also concerns Rockbox and ipod4linux alternative firmwares — once Apple encrypted ipod firmware it became impossible to use them.@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It definitely sucks.@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At least due to the fact there are millions of Linux users who are real or potential customers of Apple products.@@@@1@21@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Anyways these facts have been discussed in various forums, blogs like this and similar but this post about how to install Windows as the second operating system along with Ubuntu or any other Linux.@@@@1@34@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970101@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The first that we need to do is to create new partition for Windows and format it to NTFS.@@@@1@19@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Exact steps to accomplish this depend on your HDD partition table e.g. there is one large ext3/ext4 partition for Ubuntu or there are several partitions for various distributions or mount points.@@@@1@31@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970120@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Anyway you should use partition manager to create and/or format NTFS partition.@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970130@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I use gparted.@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970140@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It is graphical and it just works (use ‘ ‘ if you run Ubuntu/Debian).@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970150@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Second you should backup your MBR record and restore it after Windows installation that silently erases existing bootloader and installs windows one, use “ ” to save MRB into mbr.bin file and “ ” to restore it from file to HDD.@@@@1@41@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970160@unknown@formal@none@1@S@To sum everything up here is the algorithm:@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970170@unknown@formal@none@1@S@BACKUP ALL YOUR DATA!@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970180@unknown@formal@none@1@S@1. Create NTFS partition using gparted.@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970190@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Backup MBR using dd command e.g. “dd if=/dev/sda of=/mbr.bin bs=446 count=1″ (/dev/sda means your HDD).@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970200@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Boot Windows installation CD and install it onto newly created NTFS partition.@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970210@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Boot into Linux live CD e.g. Ubuntu Live CD.@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970220@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Restore MBR using dd e.g. “dd if=/media/sda/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1″.@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970230@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Reboot.@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970240@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Select Ubuntu in grub menu and boot it.@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970250@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Setup grup for Windows booting.@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970260@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In order to accomplish the last 8th item you should add the following text block to the end of grub config (read this article for detailed information):@@@@1@27@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970270@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Good luck!@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970280@unknown@formal@none@1@S@P.S. |If something goes wrong or you need more details you can take a look at the following article at ubuntu.com: Recovering Ubuntu After Installing Windows.@@@@1@26@@danf@28-5-2012 123002970300@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It’s written in rather tangled manner but still informative.@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 124000270010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@X.org 7.1@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 124000270020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Daniel writes about the new X.org blue spark hotness.@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 124000270030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@So how about some Edgy packages next Friday, Daniel?@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 124000270040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And if 7.2 can come forward a month, it’s also Edgy material…@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 124001070010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Gobuntu is… go@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 124001070020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Thanks to Colin and Evan’s efforts we now have daily images of a freedom-focused flavour of Ubuntu, “Gobuntu”.@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 124001070030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This is a call for developers who are interested in pushing the limits of content and code freedom – including firmware, content, and authoring infrastructure, to join the team and help identify places where we must separate out pieces that don’t belong in Gobuntu from the standard Ubuntu builds.@@@@1@49@@danf@28-5-2012 124001070040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/gobuntu/daily/current/@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 124001070050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At the moment this primarily addresses hardware drivers but as the team grows we will be able to maintain a bigger delta between Ubuntu and Gobuntu.@@@@1@26@@danf@28-5-2012 124001070060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The goal is to provide a cleaner and easier to maintain base for projects like gNewSense.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 124001070070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Bug reports are welcome, but patches and offers of help will get better results.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 124001070080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Thanks guys!@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 124001070090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Update: a number of comments have asked what Gobuntu is.@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 124001070100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It is a flavour of Ubuntu (like Kubuntu or Xubuntu) that is basically the same desktop environment as Ubuntu (a GNOME desktop) and a very strict set of restrictions on the licences of code and content.@@@@1@36@@danf@28-5-2012 124001070110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This means that we try to strip out ANYTHING which is not modifiable and redistributable, including firmware, PDF’s, video footage, sounds etc.@@@@1@22@@danf@28-5-2012 124001070120@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We are trying to apply the FSF “rights” definition to everything in the platform.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 124001070130@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Gobuntu will not correctly enable much hardware today – but it exists as a banner for the cause of software freedom and as a reference of what IS possible with a totally rigorous approach.@@@@1@34@@danf@28-5-2012 124001070140@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The goal is to make it a real point of pride to be able to run Gobuntu on a laptop or desktop or server, because it means that all of the stars have aligned to ensure that you have complete freedom to use that hardware with free software.@@@@1@48@@danf@28-5-2012 124001070150@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Joining: there is now a gobuntu-devel mailing list for folks interested in Gobuntu development.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Morphing dialogs and the AJAX roadmap for Launchpad@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The user experience and design team at Canonical includes a few folks dedicated to web technology.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At the moment, there is a substantial effort under way to reshape the Launchpad UI now that we have the core capabilities for cross-project bug tracking, code publishing and translation in place.@@@@1@32@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We want to make it more obvious how to get something done – especially for new users – and we want to make it feel snappy and responsive when making small changes to your project data.@@@@1@36@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the design discussions, we spent a lot of time working on a new approach to “dialog boxes, wizards and workflows”, trying to solve a thorny problem in user interaction: how do you make it easy to do something complex?@@@@1@40@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There are lots of cases in Launchpad where you need to get lots of ducks in a row before you can do something.@@@@1@23@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For example, you might need to make sure there is a team with specific people in it before you subscribe that team to a bug.@@@@1@25@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Or you might need to create a new milestone while triaging and scheduling work on bugs in your project.@@@@1@19@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Currently, that means jumping all around Launchpad in a way that assumes you know exactly how those pieces work.@@@@1@19@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You need to go to one place to register a team, and a completely different place to setup a milestone.@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That means that lots of people don’t use capabilities in Launchpad, because they need to understand the whole system before they can get something small done.@@@@1@26@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320120@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Every time someone bumps their head on that, we fail!@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320130@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And that’s the problem we set out to solve.@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320140@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We came up with a nifty approach, which we call morphing dialogs, that ensures the user always has the minimum number of choices to make, and still allows for complex variations on a process in a way that feels quite natural for users.@@@@1@43@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320150@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The key ideas behind morphing dialogs are:@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320160@unknown@formal@none@1@S@
  • Only show one primary decision at a time, and make it obvious what that is.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320170@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sometimes, there are several directions you could take in order to get something done, but there is usually a single normal path for users to follow, and we always want users to be able to do the easy things easily.
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  • Give users a sense of how far they are in the process, but don’t be too dogmatic about that, since getting one thing done often involves stepping off to the side to take care of preliminary business and those detours can also require several steps.
    • @@@@1@45@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320190@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Here’s an example movie, which shows a person linking a blueprint to a bug.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320200@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They need to search for the right blueprint, which they can do across a couple of projects simultaneously.@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320210@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In this mockup, they add GNOME to the list of projects that they look for the blueprint in, and when they can’t find it, they go to register a new blueprint for what they want.@@@@1@35@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320220@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the end he decides to go back and pick one from the search results.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320230@unknown@formal@none@1@S@None of this involved a page load, and the round trips to the server are much cheaper than loading full pages, since we can just get what we need in highly optimized way.@@@@1@33@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320240@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You can see a couple of the key ideas coming through in the movie.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320250@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Note the “progress bar” – the green line – is not particular large or obtrusive.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320260@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It’s also not obviously a progress bar, until one has done a few multi-step processes.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320270@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Note also that you can have detours; you can step off to one side to get something done, like register a team or register a new blueprint, and those detours get their own progress indicator which is separate from the main one.@@@@1@42@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320280@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We had a major sprint recently that brought the whole Launchpad team together for two weeks while we did a deep dive into JavaScript and AJAX.@@@@1@26@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320290@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We picked YUI 3, the next version of Yahoo’s UI toolkit for the web, as a foundational layer for this AJAX effort, and we wanted to bring everyone up to speed on the processes for designing, building and testing web client apps.@@@@1@42@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320300@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It was a lot of fun.@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320310@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In particular, we wanted to unify the web service API’s that we already publish with this AJAX work, so that it would be easy to write web browser code that could talk to the exact same API’s we publish for developers who are integrating with Launchpad.@@@@1@46@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320320@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That’s now possible, which means that any API we use for AJAX work will also be available to developers writing their own tools to access Launchpad directly through the web services.@@@@1@31@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320330@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Thanks to the awesomeness of YUI 3, the team is now hard at work turning those ideas into reality.@@@@1@19@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320340@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Given that YUI 3 is right on the cutting edge (some would say bleeding edge!)@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320350@unknown@formal@none@1@S@we’re focusing on pieces that don’t depend on complex widgets – those will only start to fall into place next year as YUI 3 emerges from development.@@@@1@27@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320360@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Over the next couple of months you will see pieces of this puzzle land in successive Launchpad monthly releases (or daily, if you’re on edge.launchpad.net and a beta tester).@@@@1@29@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320370@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Initially, the AJAX bling will just enable inline editing.@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320380@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In six to nine months, the more complex pieces should have land.@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 124001320390@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And by then Launchpad’s web front-end will also be open source.@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Less is more. But still less.@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One of the driving mantras for us is “less is more”.@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I want us to “clean up, simplify, streamline, focus” the user experience work that we lead.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The idea is to recognize the cost of every bit of chrome, every gradient or animation or line or detail or option or gconf setting.@@@@1@25@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It turns out that all of those extras add some value, but they also add clutter.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There’s a real cost to them – in attention, in space, in code, in QA.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@So we’re looking for things to strip out, as much (or more) as things to put in.@@@@1@17@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I’m not sure we’ll go as far as Microsoft has with their new Windows Phone 7 UI (links to .PPTX), which uses a design language called Metro.@@@@1@27@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It’s radically pared back, and very cool work.@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It will be interesting to see if they’ve gone too far, or if users take to the more abstract feel of it.@@@@1@22@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It’s not hard to get people enthusiastic about the idea that less is more.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400120@unknown@formal@none@1@S@However, it’s quite hard to get people to agree on which bits can be less.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400130@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It turns out that one person’s clutter is another person’s most useful and valued feature.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400140@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Less, it turns out, is still less.@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400150@unknown@formal@none@1@S@So, for example, consider tooltips on the panel.@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400160@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In bug #527458, there’s some discussion about a decision I made to deprecate tooltips on panel indicators.@@@@1@17@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400170@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For quite a lot of people, that’s a little less too far.@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400180@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On that particular decision, we’ll have to let time tell.@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400190@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For the moment, the decision stands.@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400200@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I’m the first to admit fallibility but I also know that it would be impossible to get consensus around a change like that.@@@@1@23@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400210@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If those tooltips are, on balance, really just clutter, then unless someone is willing to take a decision that will be unpopular, they will be clutter forever.@@@@1@27@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400220@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And it’s easier for me to make a decision like that in Ubuntu than for virtually anybody else.@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400230@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I apologise in advance for the mistakes that I will certainly make, and which others on the design team may make too, but I think it’s important to defend our willingness to pare things back and let the core, essential goodness shine through.@@@@1@43@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400240@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We have to balance innovation and change with clarification and focus.@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400250@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We can’t *stop* innovating and changing, and we have to be willing to remove things that someone will miss.@@@@1@19@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400260@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The bug is a good place to continue the discussion about that particular issue.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400270@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But I thought it would be useful to issue a call to arms, and invite suggestions from people on the Ayatana list as to what elements of the existing Ubuntu desktop can be trimmed back, on balance making the whole better.@@@@1@41@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400280@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There’s a growing awareness and excitement about the importance of design in free software.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400290@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A few years ago, folks laughed out loud when it was suggested that design is a good thing for the free software community to build expertise in.@@@@1@27@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400300@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And it’s been slow going, admittedly.@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400310@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It’s hard to bring clarity in a crowd.@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400320@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Or mob.@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400330@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We’ve been doing our part to lead that at Canonical and in the Ubuntu community, both through internal work and through public forums.@@@@1@23@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400340@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If you’re interested in design and Free Software, then Ubuntu and Ayatana and related forums are great places to participate.@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 124001400350@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And your participation is welcome!@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Something New and Beautiful: Ubuntu, distilled, in type@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Marcus and Ivanka in the Canonical Design team sat me down for some words of wisdom a few months ago.@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@“You think you need a logo, but what you really need is a new font.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One that sets the standard for both professional design, and embracing the values of Ubuntu in the way it’s produced.”@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And how right they were.@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Figuring that we wanted to do this once, properly, we said we’d build a complete family: various weights, variable-width and mono, across some of the key language groups of our community.@@@@1@31@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We knew we couldn’t do everything but we figured we could establish a rigorous core upon which everything could be done.@@@@1@21@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We’d fully hint and kern the work too, so it’s good enough to be a default interface font for something we all use all day long.@@@@1@26@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A huge project, one that will take some time to finish.@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But today we’re publishing the first source for Ubuntu, the font, a milestone worth celebrating.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Marcus introduced Bruno Maag of Dalton Maag, who expressed a willingness to engage around an open font, and we agreed to buy the rights to the work completely, so that it could be licensed freely.@@@@1@35@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610120@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Bruno pulled together a very energetic team of typographers: Lukaz, Amelie, Shiraaz, Malcolm and more, all folks who live and breathe type and typography and keen to explore this rather crazy idea of inviting crowds into the inner sanctum of type design.@@@@1@42@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610130@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We knew at the start we were bringing together two very different worlds.@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610140@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We wanted a process which would ensure participation without drowning out the clear leadership needed for a coherent result.@@@@1@19@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610150@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Bruno steered Marcus, Ivanka, me and others through a core initial process where we defined the range and scope of what we wanted to take on, and the values we wanted reflected in the result.@@@@1@35@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610160@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I learned that a font is grounded in real values, and fortunately we have a strong expression of the six attributes that we value in Ubuntu and Canonical: collaboration, freedom, precision, reliability, adroitness, accessibility.@@@@1@34@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610170@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That small team was best positioned to distill those into the typeface, and shape the broad strokes of the work.@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610180@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ubuntu is a global phenomenon, and we knew at the start we didn’t have the breadth of eyeballs close at hand to keep the font on track as it expanded.@@@@1@30@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610190@unknown@formal@none@1@S@So we planned a process of expanding consultation.@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610200@unknown@formal@none@1@S@First within Canonical, which has folks from nearly 30 countries, and then within the Ubuntu community.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610210@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We published the font to Ubuntu Members, because we wanted folks who participate and contribute directly to Ubuntu to have the strongest say in the public process of designing the font.@@@@1@31@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610220@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We heard from Greek, Turkish, Hebrew, Arabic, Indian, Chinese and many other cultures.@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610230@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Not everyone has glyphs in this first round, but everyone has had a hand in bringing us to this milestone.@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610240@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The design team needed help with this outreach program, and it turned out that a longstanding member of the community, Paul Sladen, has a personal interest in typography.@@@@1@28@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610250@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We noticed a marked uptick in the pace of bug triage when Paul got involved, and it was going so well we asked him to tackle it semi-professionally.@@@@1@28@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610260@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The result has been really fast feedback to people making comments.@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610270@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I’d like to thank Paul for bringing that crucial stewardship to bear on the community engagement process, we would not have made it to the deadline without him.@@@@1@28@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610280@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We also had the benefit of a tool produced by Richard Lee and others in the design team, which lets people identify specific issues in the font, particularly as rendered in various web browsers on various platforms.@@@@1@37@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610290@unknown@formal@none@1@S@fonttest.design.canonical.com is very cool: it lets you pick the characters, weight and size, takes a screenshot for you in most browsers, or helps you capture the essential details for the bug report.@@@@1@32@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610300@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Fonts are software, but they are not software as we know it, Jim.@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610310@unknown@formal@none@1@S@So the tool helps us keep track of all the tricky details that might help debug a problem someone’s having.@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610320@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A key open question, of course, was licensing.@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610330@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There are two obvious candidates, among quite a large field: the OFL, from SIL, and the GPLv3 with a font-specific clause added.@@@@1@22@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610340@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Digging into this in more detail turned up a tricky situation: both approaches have issues which precluded us from adopting them immediately.@@@@1@22@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610350@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We started speaking in some detail with Nicolas Spalinger of SIL, and Dave Crossland, who has done extensive analysis on the libre font process and dynamics.@@@@1@26@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610360@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We offered to underwrite an SFLC review of the OFL, and SIL has expressed a willingness to participate in that, with a view to finding common ground that would bring Dave, ourselves, and many others under one common font licence, but we were running out of time.@@@@1@47@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610370@unknown@formal@none@1@S@So we came to the compromise of an interim license, which you can find at bzr branch lp:ubuntu-font-licence While licence proliferation sucks, I’m optimistic we’ll converge in due course.@@@@1@29@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610380@unknown@formal@none@1@S@James Vasile from the SFLC will help ensure the final result is wiser with the help of all the experience the SFLC gained in stewarding the GPLv3, and SIL and Dave will bring deep typographic industry insight.@@@@1@37@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610390@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Dalton Maag have started talking more widely about their experiences so far in the process.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610400@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I was worried that they might be put off by the rowdy nature of open commentary, but I would credit them with a sterling constitution and thank them for the way they stepped up once the bug tracker really started to hum.@@@@1@42@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610410@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There are few issues that are escalated which don’t get a rapid response and framing.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610420@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Of course, there are differences of opinion, but in many cases genuine issues have been identified and handled.@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610430@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The team at DM have gotten into a great cadence of weekly iterations, and Paul has been ensuring that work makes it into the hands of Ubuntu users.@@@@1@28@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610440@unknown@formal@none@1@S@As of today, *all* Maverick users have it installed by default (I believe this is true for Kubuntu as well, at least I answer questions in support of that goal).@@@@1@30@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610450@unknown@formal@none@1@S@What’s really interesting is that DM have said there is world-wide interest in the project.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610460@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Many professional typographers are starting to think about open fonts.@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610470@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now is the time to set a very high standard for what is achievable.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610480@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There are hard questions to be answered about how the business of typography will evolve in the face of open and free type, but historically, those questions have best been answered by the bold: those who get involved, those who put themselves in the front line.@@@@1@46@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610490@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Going forward?@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610500@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In due course, we’d like the Ubuntu font to reflect the full, extraordinary diversity of the Ubuntu community.@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610510@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We can’t do it all at once, and so we’re proposing a process for communities and cultures that feel part of the Ubuntu family to participate.@@@@1@26@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610520@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If you want the Ubuntu font to speak your language, you need to do a few things to prepare for it.@@@@1@21@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610530@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The hard, hard part is that you’ll need to find a qualified, local typographer who is interested in participating and in leading the design of your glyphs.@@@@1@27@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610540@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You may need to find several, as we won’t necessarily embrace the first candidate.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610550@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This is a serious matter: we welcome the crowdsourcing of bugs, glitches, rendering problems, hinting and kerning issues, but we want coherent, professional contributions on the core design.@@@@1@28@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610560@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If that sounds exclusive: yes it is.@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610570@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Quality takes time, quality takes precedence.@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610580@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There are other fonts with lots of coverage, we have only one shot to get your glyphs done really beautifully then freeze them, metrically, for all time in the Ubuntu font.@@@@1@31@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610590@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The broader process looks like this.@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610600@unknown@formal@none@1@S@First, you need to create a wiki page for your language / culture / glyphset (could be Klingon! Phoenician! Elvish ) on wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFont/Coverage.@@@@1@24@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610630@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There, you need to document the glyph set you think is required, and any historical quirks that are peculiar to doing it well, such as OpenType features or alternative approaches.@@@@1@30@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610640@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Second, you need to file a bug on launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family called “Ubuntu Font should support [Klingon]“.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610650@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If you want, you can invite members of your community to note that they are affected by the bug.@@@@1@19@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610660@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We’ll be looking for ways to prioritise communities for attention.@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610670@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Third, you need to contact local typographers, and tell them about Ubuntu, open content, open typography.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610680@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If they are still listening, you have just opened the door on the future for them and given them a big head start .@@@@1@25@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610690@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They will need to be willing to contribute to the font.@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610700@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They will know how much work that will be.@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610710@unknown@formal@none@1@S@They won’t be paid to do it, unless the local community can find a way to raise the funds, but since there is a genuine sense of excitement in the air about open typography and this project in particular, we think you’ll find bold and insightful typographers who are keen to be part of it.@@@@1@55@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610720@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Add their details to the wiki page, especially details of their typographic portfolio.@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610730@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Update the bug with that information.@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610740@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The tools used for open font design are in a state of flux.@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610750@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There are some exceptional technical pieces, and some dark swampy bits too.@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610760@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Dalton Maag will be leading sessions at UDS with folks from the open typography community, with a view to producing what Dave Crossland described as a “lovely long list” (I’m paraphrasing) of bugs and suggestions.@@@@1@35@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610770@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Be there if you want to get a professional typographers insight on the toolchain today and what might be possible in the future.@@@@1@23@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610780@unknown@formal@none@1@S@All of the Ubuntu font sources are published, though the license does not require source to be published.@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610790@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nevertheless, the process for designing your community glyphs will likely involve a mix of free and proprietary tools, at least for the next months.@@@@1@24@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610800@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We’ll ask DM to review the portfolios of candidate typographers, and make recommendations for who should be given the go-ahead to lead the work, language by language.@@@@1@27@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610810@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Once core glyphs are designed, we’ll facilitate LoCo-based community feedback, much as we did for the main font.@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610820@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We want local Ubuntu members to have the strongest public voice in feedback to their typographer.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610830@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And Canonical, with DM, will provide feedback aimed at keeping the whole consistent.@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610840@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Once the glyph design process is wrapped, the typographer will lead hinting and kerning.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610850@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That’s the tough, detailed part of the job, but essential for an interface font that will be used on screen, everywhere on screen, all the time.@@@@1@26@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610860@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And at that point we’ll start automating feedback, using fonttest, as well as starting to integrate those glyphs into the main Ubuntu font.@@@@1@23@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610870@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We’ll publish point releases to the main Ubuntu font, with major releases designating points where we update the set of “fixed and metrically frozen” glyphs, point releases denoting occasions where we add or update beta glyphs in the public test font.@@@@1@41@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610880@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In each point release, we’ll include perhaps one or two new glyph sets for beta testing.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610890@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We’ll prioritize those communities who have followed the process, and have the most substantial community interest in testing.@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610900@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Phew.@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610910@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If you got this far, you’re interested .@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610920@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This is going to be one of those things that lives a very long time.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610930@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It will take a long time to get everybody represented.@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 124001610940@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But we’re going to do it, together.@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Network traffic analyzers for Ubuntu System@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Darkstat is a network statistics gatherer.@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Effectively, it’s a packet sniffer which runs as a background process on a cable/DSL router, gathers all sorts of useless but interesting statistics,and serves them over HTTP.@@@@1@27@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Install Darkstat in Ubuntu@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo apt-get install darkstat@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This will complete the installation.@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000051@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Once you finish the installation you need to edit the the file located at /etc/darkstat/init.cfg@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo gedit /etc/darkstat/init.cfg@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@# Turn this to yes when you have configured the options below.@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@START_DARKSTAT=no@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@START_DARKSTAT=yes@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now you need to start the darkstat using the following command@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo /etc/init.d/darkstat start@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000120@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This will start the darkstat process@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000130@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now if you want to see your network stats go to http://youripaddress:666@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000140@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Darkstat Screenshots@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000150@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Here you can see some of the screenshots for darkstat@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000160@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Once you open the http://youripaddress:666 you should see the following screen@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000170@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Hosts Screen@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000180@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Hosts screen you can see all the machines which take part in the communication.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000190@unknown@formal@none@1@S@These can be arranged by the caused traffic or their particular IP address.@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000200@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ports Screen@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000210@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ports Screen you can see the port numbers which are used by server and client applications.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000220@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You can immediately recognize the port numbers which are used by the following daemons: 666 (darkstat), 80 (http)@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000230@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Protocols Screen@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000240@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Protocols Screen protocols ICMP,TCP,IGP and UDP for the file transmission, which were involved in the communication event.@@@@1@17@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000250@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Graphs Screen@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000260@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Graphs Screen screen shot shows a summary of the collected time periods as graphs@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000270@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This tool is really useful if you want to check your ubuntu system traffic details like incoming and outgoing ports and communication to outside world@@@@1@25@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000280@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There are other tools which you can use as follows@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000290@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Wireshark (Old Name Ethereal)@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000300@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Wireshark® is used by network professionals around the world for troubleshooting, analysis, software and protocol development, and education.@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000310@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It has all of the standard features you would expect in a protocol analyzer, and several features not seen in any other product.@@@@1@23@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000320@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Its open source license allows talented experts in the networking community to add enhancements.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000330@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It runs on all popular computing platforms, including Unix, Linux, and Windows.@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000340@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If you want to install wireshark in ubuntu use the following command@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000350@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For Ubuntu Edgy users@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000360@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo apt-get install Wireshark@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000370@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For Ubuntu Dapper Users@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000380@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo apt-get install ethereal@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000390@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If you want to open go to Applications--->Internet--->Wireshark (If you want run as root select root option)@@@@1@17@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000400@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Once it opens you should see the following screen@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000401@unknown@formal@none@1@S@@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000410@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If you want to see the available interfaces for capture click on the icon bottom of the file tool option@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000411@unknown@formal@none@1@S@@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000420@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Capture Network Interface eth0 details@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000430@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Wireshark Version Details@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000440@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Etherape@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000450@unknown@formal@none@1@S@EtherApe is a graphical network monitor for Unix modeled after etherman.@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000460@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Featuring link layer, ip and TCP modes, it displays network activity graphically.@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000470@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Hosts and links change in size with traffic.@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000480@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Color coded protocols display.@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000490@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It supports Ethernet, FDDI, Token Ring, ISDN, PPP and SLIP devices.@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000500@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It can filter traffic to be shown, and can read traffic from a file as well as live from the network.@@@@1@21@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000510@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If you want to install Etherape in ubuntu use the following command@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000520@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo apt-get install etherape@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000530@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If you want to open go to Applications--->Internet--->EtherApe(as root)@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000540@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Once it open the application you can see the network activity with all the protocols and locations@@@@1@17@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000550@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ethstatus@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000560@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Console-based ethernet statistics monitor.@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000561@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ethstatus is a console-based monitoring utility for displaying statistical data of the ethernet interface on a quantity basis.@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000570@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It is similar to iptraf but is meant to run as a permanent console task to monitor the network load.@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000580@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Install Ethstatus in Ubuntu@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000590@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo apt-get install ethstatus@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000600@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If you want to see your your network card status from command line just enter the following command@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000610@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ethstatus@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000620@unknown@formal@none@1@S@you should see the following screen with all the details@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000630@unknown@formal@none@1@S@potion@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000640@unknown@formal@none@1@S@IP Flow Monitor@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000641@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This is a console utility which will listen on an interface using libpcap, aggregate the traffic into flows and display the top (as many as can fit on your screen) flows with their average throughput.@@@@1@35@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000650@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A flow is identified ip protocol, source ip, source port, destination ip, destination port, and type of service flag.@@@@1@19@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000660@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Install potion in ubuntu@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000670@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo apt-get install potion@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000680@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This will complete the installation@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000690@unknown@formal@none@1@S@potion Usage@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000700@unknown@formal@none@1@S@potion [options] interface [expression]@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000710@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Example@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 125001000720@unknown@formal@none@1@S@potion -a eth0 1@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125001510010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Firefox 3.0 (still in Alpha) Installation in Ubuntu Feisty@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 125001510020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Firefox 3.0 is the next generation release of the award-winning Firefox web browser from Mozilla.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 125001510021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This article describes how to install fiefox3.0a1 in ubuntu linux system.@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 125001510022@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The development name for Mozilla Firefox 3 is Gran Paradiso (a national park in Italy) and final version will be released in May 2007.@@@@1@24@@danf@28-5-2012 125001510030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Gran Paradiso Alpha is an developer milestone for the next major version of Firefox that is being built on top of the next generation of Mozilla’s layout engine, Gecko 1.9.@@@@1@30@@danf@28-5-2012 125001510040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Gran Paradiso Alpha is being made available for testing purposes only, and is intended for web application developers and our testing community.@@@@1@22@@danf@28-5-2012 125001510060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Current users of Mozilla Firefox should not use Gran Paradiso Alpha.@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 125001510070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Install Firefox 3.0 (Alpha) in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 125001510080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@First you need to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 125001510090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125001510100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@add the following lines@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125001510110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@deb http://gnomefreak.youmortals.com/mozilla-testing feisty main deb-src http://gnomefreak.youmortals.com/mozilla-testing feisty main@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 125001510120@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now you need to update the source list@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 125001510130@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo apt-get update@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125001510140@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Install firefox 3 using the following command@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 125001510150@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo apt-get install firefox-trunk firefox-trunk-gnome-support@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 125001510160@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This will install all the required packages for firefox3@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 125001510170@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Firefox 3.0 runs next to your original Firefox and can be found in your menu as “Firefox Web Browser (Development Version)”.@@@@1@22@@danf@28-5-2012 125001510171@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Both Firefoxes cannot run at the same time.@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 125001510180@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If you want to open Firefox3 go to Applications--->Internet--->Firefox Web Browser(Development Version)@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 125001510190@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Once it opens you should see firefox 3 in action@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 125001510200@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Firefox 3 Version Details@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125001510210@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Firefox3.0 Addons@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 125001510220@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If you want Firefox3.0a1 addons list check here@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 125001510230@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Troubleshooting@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 125001510240@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If you want to troubleshoot any problem with firefox3.0a1 check here@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Monitoring Real-time user logins in ubuntu@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Whowatch is an console, interactive users and process monitoring tool.@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It displays information about the users currently logged on to the machine, in real-time.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Besides standard informations (login name, tty,host, userâs process), the type of the connection (ie. telnet or ssh) is shown.@@@@1@19@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Display of users command line can be switch to tty idle time.@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Certain user can be selected and his processes tree may be viewed as well as tree of all system processes.@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Tree may be displayed with additional column that shows owner of each process.@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the process tree mode SIGINT and SIGKILL signals can be sent to the selected process.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Killing processes is just as simple and fun as deleting lines on the screen.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Install whowatch in ubuntu@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo apt-get install whowatch@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740120@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This will install all the required packages for whowatch@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740130@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Using whowatch@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740140@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Whowatch has no command line options or configuration file.@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740150@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If you want to open the whowatch you need to run the following command@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740160@unknown@formal@none@1@S@whowatch@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740170@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now you should see similar to the following screen@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740180@unknown@formal@none@1@S@All actions are performed in real time by pressing following keys@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740190@unknown@formal@none@1@S@up,down - cursor movement@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740200@unknown@formal@none@1@S@i - toggle between user command line and idle time@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740210@unknown@formal@none@1@S@c - full command line on/off.@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740220@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Disabling full command line can save CPU time.@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740230@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It can give you also some additional information about process executable.@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740240@unknown@formal@none@1@S@enter - view selected users processes tree.@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740250@unknown@formal@none@1@S@t - all system processes (init tree)@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740260@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Tree mode:@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740270@unknown@formal@none@1@S@up,down - cursor movement@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740280@unknown@formal@none@1@S@enter - go back to users list@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740290@unknown@formal@none@1@S@o - show processes owners@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740300@unknown@formal@none@1@S@c - full command line on/off.@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740310@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Disabling full command line can save CPU time.@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740320@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It can give you also some additional information about process executable.@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740330@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ctrl-I - send INT signal to selected process@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740340@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ctrl-K - send KILL signal to selected process@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740350@unknown@formal@none@1@S@s - It will provide the system details@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 125002740360@unknown@formal@none@1@S@d - Details about the user@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Howto setup Database Server With postgresql and pgadmin3@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source relational database system.@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It has more than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness.@@@@1@26@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It runs on all major operating systems, including Linux, UNIX (AIX, BSD, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, Mac OS X, Solaris, Tru64), and Windows.@@@@1@22@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It is fully ACID compliant, has full support for foreign keys, joins, views, triggers, and stored procedures (in multiple languages).@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It includes most SQL92 and SQL99 data types, including INTEGER, NUMERIC, BOOLEAN, CHAR, VARCHAR, DATE, INTERVAL, and TIMESTAMP.@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It also supports storage of binary large objects, including pictures, sounds, or video.@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It has native programming interfaces for C/C++, Java, .Net, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, ODBC, among others.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@pgAdmin III is the most popular and feature rich Open Source administration and development platform for PostgreSQL, the most advanced Open Source database in the world.@@@@1@26@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The application may be used on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenSUSE, Solaris, Mac OSX and Windows platforms to manage PostgreSQL 7.3 and above running on any platform, as well as commercial and derived versions of PostgreSQL such as EnterpriseDB, Mammoth PostgreSQL, Bizgres and Greenplum database.@@@@1@43@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@pgAdmin III is designed to answer the needs of all users, from writing simple SQL queries to developing complex databases.@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660120@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The graphical interface supports all PostgreSQL features and makes administration easy.@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660130@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The application also includes a syntax highlighting SQL editor, a server-side code editor, an SQL/batch/shell job scheduling agent, support for the Slony-I replication engine and much more.@@@@1@27@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660140@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Server connection may be made using TCP/IP or Unix Domain Sockets (on *nix platforms), and may be SSL encrypted for security.@@@@1@21@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660150@unknown@formal@none@1@S@No additional drivers are required to communicate with the database server.@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660160@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Install Postgresql and pgadmin3 in Ubuntu@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660170@unknown@formal@none@1@S@PostgreSQL 8.2 version will be installed in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660180@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo apt-get install postgresql-8.2 postgresql-client-8.2 postgresql-contrib-8.2@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660190@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo apt-get install pgadmin3@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660200@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This will install the database server/client, some extra utility scripts and the pgAdmin GUI application for working with the database.@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660210@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Configuring postgresql in Ubuntu@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660220@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now we need to reset the password for the ‘postgres’ admin account for the server@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660230@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo su postgres -c psql template1 template1=# ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD ‘password’@@@@1@13@template1=# \\q@danf@28-5-2012 125003660240@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That alters the password for within the database, now we need to do the same for the unix user ‘postgres’:@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660250@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo passwd -d postgres@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660260@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo su postgres -c passwd@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660270@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now enter the same password that you used previously.@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660280@unknown@formal@none@1@S@from here on in we can use both pgAdmin and command-line access (as the postgres user) to run the database server.@@@@1@21@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660290@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But before you jump into pgAdmin we should set-up the PostgreSQL admin pack that enables better logging and monitoring within pgAdmin.@@@@1@21@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660300@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Run the following at the command-line@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660310@unknown@formal@none@1@S@we need to open up the server so that we can access and use it remotely - unless you only want to access the database on the local machine.@@@@1@29@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660320@unknown@formal@none@1@S@To do this, first, we need to edit the postgresql.conf file:@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660330@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo gedit /etc/postgresql/8.2/main/postgresql.conf@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660340@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now, to edit a couple of lines in the ‘Connections and Authentication’ section@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660350@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Change the line@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660360@unknown@formal@none@1@S@#listen_addresses = ‘localhost’@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660370@unknown@formal@none@1@S@listen_addresses = ‘*’@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660380@unknown@formal@none@1@S@and also change the line@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660390@unknown@formal@none@1@S@#password_encryption = on@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660400@unknown@formal@none@1@S@password_encryption = on@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660410@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Then save the file and close gedit.@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660420@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now for the final step, we must define who can access the server.@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660430@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This is all done using the pg_hba.conf file.@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660440@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo gedit /etc/postgresql/8.2/main/pg_hba.conf@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660450@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Comment out, or delete the current contents of the file, then add this text to the bottom of the file@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660460@unknown@formal@none@1@S@DO NOT DISABLE!@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660470@unknown@formal@none@1@S@# If you change this first entry you will need to make sure that the # database # super user can access the database using some other method.@@@@1@28@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660480@unknown@formal@none@1@S@# Noninteractive # access to all databases is required during automatic maintenance # (autovacuum, daily cronjob, replication, and similar tasks).@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660490@unknown@formal@none@1@S@# # Database administrative login by UNIX sockets local all postgres ident sameuser # TYPE DATABASE USER CIDR-ADDRESS METHOD@@@@1@19@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660500@unknown@formal@none@1@S@# “local” is for Unix domain socket connections only local all all md5 # IPv4 local connections: host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5 # IPv6 local connections: host all all ::1/128 md5@@@@1@31@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660510@unknown@formal@none@1@S@# Connections for all PCs on the subnet # # TYPE DATABASE USER IP-ADDRESS IP-MASK METHOD host all all [ip address] [subnet mask] md5@@@@1@24@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660520@unknown@formal@none@1@S@and in the last line, add in your subnet mask (i.e. 255.255.255.0) and the IP address of the machine that you would like to access your server (i.e. 138.250.192.115).@@@@1@29@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660530@unknown@formal@none@1@S@However, if you would like to enable access to a range of IP addresses, just substitute the last number for a zero and all machines within that range will be allowed access (i.e. 138.250.192.0 would allow all machines with an IP address 138.250.192.x to use the database server).@@@@1@48@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660540@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That’s it, now all you have to do is restart the server@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660550@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.2 restart@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660560@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That’s it you can start using postgresql in Ubuntu@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660570@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Create a Database from command line@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660580@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You can also use pgadmin3 for all postgresql related@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660590@unknown@formal@none@1@S@To create a database with a user that have full rights on the database, use the following command@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660600@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo -u postgres createuser -D -A -P mynewuser@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 125003660610@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo -u postgres createdb -O mynewuser mydatabase@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 125003920010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@How to Enable Automatic Login in Ubutnu@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 125003920020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@By default, Ubuntu requires that you login each time you run the operating system.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 125003920030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If you are the only person using the computer and aren’t worried about security you can enable automatic login.@@@@1@19@@danf@28-5-2012 125003920040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If you want to enable automatic login in ubuntu follow this procedure@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 125003920050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Go to System--->Administration--->Login Window.@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125003920060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now it will prompt for root password enter your root password and click ok@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 125003920070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the Login Window Preferences window, select the Security tab.@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 125003920071@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Check the Enable Automatic Login checkbox and Select your username from the User dropdown.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 125003920072@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Click the Close button.@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@How to install KDE 4.1 in Ubuntu/kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On 29th July 2008, The KDE Community released KDE 4.1.0.@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This release is the second feature release of the KDE 4 series, sporting new applications and newly developed features on top of the Pillars of KDE4.@@@@1@26@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@KDE 4.1 is the first KDE4 release to contain the Personal Information Management suite KDE-PIM with its E-Mail client KMail, the planner KOrganizer, Akregator, the RSS feed reader, KNode, the newsgroup reader and many more components integrated into the Kontact shell.@@@@1@41@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Furthermore, the new desktop shell Plasma, introduced in KDE 4.0, has matured to the point where it can replace the KDE 3 shell for most casual users.@@@@1@27@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Like with our previous release much time has been devoted to improving the framework and underlying libraries on which KDE is built.@@@@1@22@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@.If you want to know more features in KDE 4.1 check here @@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@KDE 4.1 Highlights @@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@
  • Greatly expanded desktop shell functionality and configurability
    • @@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@
  • KDE Personal Information Management suite ported to KDE 4
    • @@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@
  • Many new and newly ported applications
    • @@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590120@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Install KDE 4.1 in Ubuntu/Kubuntu hardy@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590130@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You need to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590140@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590150@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For Kubuntu Users use the following command@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590160@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo kate /etc/apt/sources.list@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590170@unknown@formal@none@1@S@add the following line@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590180@unknown@formal@none@1@S@deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu hardy main@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590190@unknown@formal@none@1@S@save and exit the file@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590200@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Update the source list using the following command@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590210@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo apt-get update@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590220@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For Ubuntu 8.04 users use the following command to install@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590230@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo apt-get install kubuntu-kde4-desktop@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590240@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For Kubuntu 8.04 users use the following command to install@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590250@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo apt-get dist-upgrade@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590260@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Note you may need to install kdebase-runtime-data-common in order to get Application directory icons under the Kickoff menu.@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590270@unknown@formal@none@1@S@To install the KDE 4 PIM packages,use the following commands@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590280@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo apt-get update@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590290@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo apt-get install kdepim-kde4@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125004590300@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Enjoy your new KDE 4.1 desktop@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 125005560010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Host interface networking made easy in VirtualBox 2.1.0@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 125005560020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@We have already discussed how to install VirtualBox 2.1.0 in ubuntu one of the important change is Host interface networking made easy with Host Interface Networking, VirtualBox uses a device driver on your host system that filters data from your physical network adapter.@@@@1@43@@danf@28-5-2012 125005560030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This driver is therefore called a “net filter” driver.@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 125005560040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This allows VirtualBox to intercept data from the physical network and inject data into it, effectively creating a new network interface in software.@@@@1@23@@danf@28-5-2012 125005560050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@When a guest is using such a new software interface, it looks to the host system as though the guest were physically connected to the interface using a network cable: the host can send data to the guest through that interface and receive data from it.@@@@1@46@@danf@28-5-2012 125005560060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This means that you can set up routing or bridging between the guest and the rest of your network.@@@@1@19@@danf@28-5-2012 125005560070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@VirtualBox needs a device driver on your host system.@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 125005560080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The way Host Interface Networking works has been completely rewritten with VirtualBox 2.0 and 2.1, depending on the host operating system.@@@@1@21@@danf@28-5-2012 125005560090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@From the user perspective, the main difference is that complex configuration is no longer necessary on any of the supported host operating systems.@@@@1@23@@danf@28-5-2012 125005560100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@With the new mechanism, to enable Host Interface Networking, You need to follow this procedure.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 125005560110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@1) Go to Applications--->System Tools--->Sun xVM Virtualbox@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 125005560120@unknown@formal@none@1@S@2) Once virtualbox opens you need to open the Settings dialog of a virtual machine, go to the “Network” page .@@@@1@21@@danf@28-5-2012 125005560130@unknown@formal@none@1@S@@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 125005560131@unknown@formal@none@1@S@3) Select “Host Interface” in the drop down list for the “Attached to” field.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 125005560140@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Finally, select desired host interface from the list at the bottom of the page, which contains the physical network interfaces of your systems.@@@@1@23@@danf@28-5-2012 125005560150@unknown@formal@none@1@S@@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 125005560151@unknown@formal@none@1@S@4) Once you selected you should see similar to the following screen click on ok@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 125005560160@unknown@formal@none@1@S@@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 125005560161@unknown@formal@none@1@S@On Linux hosts, functionality is limited when using wireless interfaces for Host Interface Networking.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 125005560170@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Currently, VirtualBox supports only IPv4 over wireless.@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 125005560171@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For other protocols such as IPv6 and IPX, you must choose a wired interface.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 125005560172@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Also, setting the MTU to less than 1500 bytes on wired interfaces provided by the sky2 driver on the Marvell Yukon II EC Ultra Ethernet NIC is known to cause packet losses under certain conditions.@@@@1@35@@danf@28-5-2012 125005560180@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If you want to know how to setup host interface networking in VirtualBox 2.0 check here@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 125007840010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Fix for rhythmbox not playing mp3 in Ubuntu karmic@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 125007840020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@My Rhythmbox won’t play my music anymore after upgrading to 9.10 so here is what i did i hope this helps for some users@@@@1@24@@danf@28-5-2012 125007840030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Following Procedure worked for me@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 125007840040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@First i removed Rhythmbox using the following command@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 125007840050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo apt-get remove rhythmbox purge@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 125007840060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Update the sourcelist@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125007840070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo apt-get update@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125007840080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@re-installed Rhythmbox@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 125007840090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo apt-get install rhythmbox@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125007840100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now you try to open mp3 file Rhythmbox and it will ask you to install additional plugins install them@@@@1@19@@danf@28-5-2012 125007840110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now restart Rhythmbox it should work without any problem@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@How to install Nvidia Graphics Drivers 195.22 in Ubuntu Karmic/Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This tutorial will explain how to install Nvidia Graphics Drivers 195.22 in Ubuntu Karmic/Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@195.22 (beta) Release highlights@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* Enhanced the VDPAU blit-based presentation queue to provide values of “first_presentation_time” that have less jitter.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* Add support for R16F and RG32F GLXFBConfigs when using GeForce 8 series and higher GPUs.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* Added support for NVIDIA 3D Vision Stereo on Linux with Quadro GPUs.@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@See the “Stereo” X configuration documentation in the README for details.@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* Added support for A2BGR10 32-bit GLX visuals on 30-bit X screens.@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@These allow some level of window transparency when using 30-bit visuals with GLX and Composite, but they may cause problems with older X servers and/or applications.@@@@1@26@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ARGB GLX visuals can be disabled by adding:@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Option “AddARGBGLXVisuals” “False” to the X configuration file.@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900130@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* Fixed a problem that caused DisplayPort devices to behave incorrectly when DPMS power saving mode was triggered.@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900140@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* Updated VDPAU to improve thread concurrency.@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900150@unknown@formal@none@1@S@See the README for details.@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900160@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* Altered NVIDIA X driver behavior in the case that no display devices are connected to the GPU.@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900170@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Previously, in this case, the NVIDIA X driver would pretend a CRT was connected to the GPU.@@@@1@17@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900180@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now, the NVIDIA X driver will not automatically pretend that any CRTs are connected.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900190@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If the X driver does not detect any connected display devices, the X server will fail to start.@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900200@unknown@formal@none@1@S@To restore the old behavior, use the ConnectedMonitor X configuration option; e.g., Option “ConnectedMonitor” “CRT”@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900220@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Alternatively, if display is not desired, Quadro and Tesla GPU users can enable “NoScanout” mode, which bypasses any mode timing validation or use of display devices; this is configured with:@@@@1@30@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900230@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Option “UseDisplayDevice” “none”@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900240@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* Disabled software cursors when the driver is operating in “no scanout” (UseDisplayDevice “none”) mode.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900250@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The software cursor image is not visible in remote desktop applications or screenshots anyway, so having software cursor enabled was unnecessary.@@@@1@21@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900260@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* Changed glXSwapBuffers() behavior for a pixmap such that it is now a no-op in the direct rendering case in order to match the indirect case and comply with the GLX spec.@@@@1@32@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900270@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Previously, calling glXSwapBuffers() on pixmaps in the direct case would swap the pixmap’s buffers if the pixmap was double buffered.@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900280@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* Modified the installation location and names of internal VDPAU libraries to conform to conventions and Debian packaging guidelines.@@@@1@19@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900290@unknown@formal@none@1@S@New versions of libvdpau expect this layout.@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900300@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Compatibility with old versions of libvdpau is maintained with symlinks.@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900310@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* Fixed a bug that could cause errors in graphical applications run after a previous application using VDPAU and OpenGL.@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900320@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This behaviour was observed when running Gwenole Beauchesne’s hwdecode-demos application.@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900330@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* Modified vdpau.h to increment VDPAU_VERSION, to reflect the fact that new features have been added in the past.@@@@1@19@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900340@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Also, add the new define VDPAU_INTERFACE_VERSION.@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900350@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* Fixed a periodic temporary hang in the VDPAU blit-based presentation queue.@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900360@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* Fixed a problem that caused resolution limitations or corruption on certain DisplayPort devices such as the Apple 24″ Cinema display or some DisplayPort to VGA adapters.@@@@1@27@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900370@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* Disabled the UseEvents option for GeForce 8 series and higher GPUs due to a problem that causes occasional short hangs.@@@@1@21@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900380@unknown@formal@none@1@S@It will be re-enabled when that bug has been tracked down and fixed.@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900390@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* VDPAU now allows multiple streams to be decoded at once, without the need to set any environment variables.@@@@1@19@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900400@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The 195.22 NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Graphics Driver Set for Linux/x86 is available for download via FTP.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900410@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The 195.22 NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Graphics Driver Set for Linux/x86_64 is available for download via FTP.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900420@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Please see the README (x86, x86_64) for more information about this release.@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900430@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Please note: This NVIDIA Linux graphics driver release supports GeForce 6xxx and newer NVIDIA GPUs, GeForce4 and older GPUs are supported through the 96.43.xx and 71.86.xx NVIDIA legacy graphics drivers.@@@@1@30@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900440@unknown@formal@none@1@S@GeForce FX GPUs are supported through the 173.14.xx NVIDIA legacy graphics drivers.@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900450@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Note:- This is still in beta stage so it is not recommended to install on production systems@@@@1@17@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900460@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For Ubuntu Karmic Users@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900470@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Use the following command to add PPA@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900480@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nvidia-vdpau/ppa@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900490@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Other User@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900500@unknown@formal@none@1@S@First you need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list file@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900510@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900520@unknown@formal@none@1@S@add one of the following lines@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900530@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For Jaunty users@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900540@unknown@formal@none@1@S@deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidia-vdpau/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidia-vdpau/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900550@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For Intrepid Users@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900560@unknown@formal@none@1@S@deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidia-vdpau/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidia-vdpau/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900570@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For Hardy Users@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900580@unknown@formal@none@1@S@deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidia-vdpau/ppa/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvidia-vdpau/ppa/ubuntu hardy main@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900590@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Save and exit the file@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900600@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Install GPG key using the following command@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900610@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys CEC06767@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900620@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Update source list@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900630@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo apt-get update@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900640@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Install beta drivers@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125008900650@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-195 nvidia-195-modaliases@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 125009860010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Simple Nautilus Flickr Uploader@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125009860020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This is a simple GUI to upload pics to Flickr from Nautilus file browser (should work with KDE though).@@@@1@19@@danf@28-5-2012 125009860021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This application is Free Software (GPL version 3) and uses the Flickr API, but is not endorsed or certified by Flickr.@@@@1@21@@danf@28-5-2012 125009860030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@How to use it@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125009860040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Select the pictures you want to upload to Flickr on you file browser and right click to open them with this application, and you’re done.@@@@1@25@@danf@28-5-2012 125009860050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Easy and neat.@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 125009860060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Install Nautilus Flickr Uploader in Ubuntu@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 125009860070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@First you need to download .deb package from here or using the following command@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 125009860080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@wget http://www.usebox.net/jjm/nautilus-flickr-uploader/deb/nautilus-flickr-uploader_0.03-1_all.deb@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 125009860090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now install this .deb package by double clicking or from the terminal run the following command@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 125009860100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo dpkg -i nautilus-flickr-uploader_0.03-1_all.deb@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125009860110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Screenshot@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 125011310010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@How to install globalmenu in Ubuntu 10.04(Lucid)/9.10(Karmic)@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 125011310020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Global Menu is the globally-shared menu bar of all applications launched in your desktop session.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 125011310030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There are several advantages by adopting a shared global menu bar in Gnome (thanks Matthew for organizing these):@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 125011310040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* It works better with narrow windows, because the width of the menus isn’t limited to the width of the window.@@@@1@21@@danf@28-5-2012 125011310050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@(This is a problem for Gimp and Inkscape especially.)@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 125011310060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* It’s less confusing -- when two menu bars are visible on-screen at once, sometimes people choose the wrong one.@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 125011310070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* Global Menu is the first step to move toward a Document Centric Desktop Environment which is, according to us, a long-term trend in DEs.@@@@1@25@@danf@28-5-2012 125011310080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Install globalmenu in Ubuntu 10.04(Lucid)/9.10(Karmic)@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 125011310090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Open the terminal and run the following commands@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 125011310100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@sudo add-apt-repository ppa:globalmenu-team/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gnome-globalmenu@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 125011310110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Add globalmenu to panel@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 125011310120@unknown@formal@none@1@S@- right click on a panel, select Add To Panel@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 125011310130@unknown@formal@none@1@S@- choose Global Menu Applet from the list@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 125011310140@unknown@formal@none@1@S@- logout, and back in again@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 125011310150@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Installation Video@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 125013510010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Download 3 Java Script Tutorial guides (Free PDF Guides)@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 125013510020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Title: The JavaScript Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks - Free 158 Page Preview@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 125013510030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Get the most out of this complete question-and-answer book on JavaScript.@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 125013510040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The JavaScript Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks is a collection of over 100 thoroughly–tested, customizable and elegant solutions that will show you how to add usable and accessible interactivity to your site: from slick drop-down menus, to style sheet switchers, to AJAX applications, and much more.@@@@1@48@@danf@28-5-2012 125013510050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@

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    @@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 125013510060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Download Now@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 125013510070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Title: The Art & Science of JavaScript - Free 100 Page Preview!@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 125013510080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For intermediate JavaScript developers who want to take their JavaScript skills to the next level without sacrificing web accessibility or best practice.@@@@1@22@@danf@28-5-2012 125013510090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If you’ve never written a line of JavaScript before, this probably isn’t the right book for you—some of the logic in the later chapters can get a little hairy.@@@@1@29@@danf@28-5-2012 125013510100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If you have only a small amount of experience with JavaScript, but are comfortable enough programming in another language such as PHP or Java, you’ll be just fine—SitePoint will hold your hand along the way, and all of the code is available for you to download and experiment with on your own.@@@@1@52@@danf@28-5-2012 125013510110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@And if you’re an experienced JavaScript developer, they would be very, very surprised if you didn’t learn a thing or two.@@@@1@21@@danf@28-5-2012 125013510120@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In fact, if you only learn a thing or two, you should contact them at SitePoint—they may have a book project for you to tackle!@@@@1@25@@danf@28-5-2012 125013510130@unknown@formal@none@1@S@

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    @@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 125013510140@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Download Now@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 125013510150@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Title: Simply JavaScript - Free 150 Page Preview!@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 125013510160@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Packed with full-color examples, Simply JavaScript is all you need to start programming in JavaScript the right way.@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 125013510170@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Learn how easy it is to use JavaScript to solve real-world problems, build smarter forms, track user events (such as mouse clicks and key strokes), and design eye-catching animations.@@@@1@29@@danf@28-5-2012 125013510180@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Then move on to more powerful techniques using the DOM and Ajax.@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 125013510190@unknown@formal@none@1@S@World-renowned authors, Kevin Yank and Cameron Adams have used their exquisite skills and in-depth knowledge of JavaScript to deliver a book that teaches JavaScript with unprecedented clarity.@@@@1@27@@danf@28-5-2012 125013510200@unknown@formal@none@1@S@

    Simply JavaScript

    @@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 125013510210@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Download Now@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 126000050010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ubuntu Linux Command Line Reference cheat sheet@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 126000050020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Here is a nice Linux command line cheat sheet you can grab here its in pdf format.@@@@1@17@@danf@28-5-2012 126000050030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Also a great place for learning bash/command line is here this site allows you to download the whole site as a tar.gz so you can read offline on a live cd or whatever@@@@1@33@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@50 Things You Need to Know About Ubuntu (10-1)@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Sorry for this belated post.@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Here is the final part of TechIQ’s five-part countdown, highlighting 50 trends and takeaways from the Ubuntu Live conference in Portland, Oregon.@@@@1@22@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some of the items are closely related to earlier portions of the list.@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Here we go…@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@50-41: Part One of the List @@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@40-31: Part Two of the List@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@30-21: Part Three of the List@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@20-11: Part Four of the List @@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@10. Winning On Alfresco: Roughly 22 percent of Alfresco developer downloads occur to the Ubuntu platform, a dramatic increase from last year, according to Alfresco GM Matt Asay.@@@@1@28@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290120@unknown@formal@none@1@S@9. Don’t Betray Your Audience: One speaker conceded that he was nearly booed off stage during another open source conference.@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290140@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The reason: He used PowerPoint rather than OpenOffice for his presentation.@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290150@unknown@formal@none@1@S@8. Two Unsung Heroes: Two small PC suppliers, ZaReason and System76, won praise for their early commitment to the Ubuntu movement.@@@@1@21@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290170@unknown@formal@none@1@S@7. Play to Your Strengths: Instead of competing head-on against Microsoft, several speakers suggested that the Ubuntu community needs to continue exploiting niche applications and collaboration to attack market voids left by Microsoft.@@@@1@34@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290190@unknown@formal@none@1@S@6. Printer Drivers: It sounds so basic.@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290210@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But printer drivers are the number one problem university professors seem to complain about when they’re using Ubuntu, according to several speakers.@@@@1@22@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290220@unknown@formal@none@1@S@5. Repeat Performance: Canonical feels pretty confident about its prospects and is already planning next year’s event.@@@@1@17@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290240@unknown@formal@none@1@S@4. Global Focus: Rather than playing regional favorites, Canonical is striving to enhance its localization, training and certification initiatives across the globe.@@@@1@22@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290260@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Traditional closed-source software companies simply can’t complete with the global network of developers who are committed to tweaking code for use in hundreds of countries.@@@@1@25@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290270@unknown@formal@none@1@S@3. Novell Is Worse Off Than Expected: Sure, Novell has gained some momentum with corporate customers who embraced the Microsoft-Novell relationship.@@@@1@21@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290290@unknown@formal@none@1@S@But imagine if the American Red Cross lost all of its volunteers.@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290300@unknown@formal@none@1@S@That could be the situation facing Novell if it doesn’t take steps to win back open source developers who despise the Microsoft deal.@@@@1@23@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290310@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Throughout the event, Novell’s “betrayal” of the open source movement was raised by multiple speakers.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290320@unknown@formal@none@1@S@2. Small Business Push: Watch for Canonical to work with at least one major hardware developer to promote an integrated small business server package.@@@@1@24@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290340@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The suite will likely be based on the LAMP software stack, The VAR Guy hears.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290350@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One suggestion: Partner with Zimbra or another open source email provider on this project.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290360@unknown@formal@none@1@S@1. The Numbers Don’t Lie: Some nuggets of info worth repeating: Ubuntu now has 6 million to 12 million users and Canonical’s staff has doubled to 100 employees since January.@@@@1@30@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290380@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Impressive growth, to be sure... oh if you search google for "linux" Ubuntu is on top!@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 126000290390@unknown@formal@none@1@S@check it out here@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Read and write filesystems (ext, xfs, jfs,zfs) under Windows)@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Idea: Windows XP install a VMware workstation, make a new Ubuntu virtual machine with NAT networking, install Ubuntu onto the virtual machine, stop it, go to the virtual machine's settings, connect your HDDs which contains Linux-like partitions and You want to use them to Your virtual machine.@@@@1@48@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Then boot it up, locate the drives, than put them into the fstab.@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After that setup a SAMBA server, and share your drives.@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now you can discover your drives via windows networks.@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@What you need: - Microsoft Windows XP SP2 - VMware Workstation (You can download and use it for 30 days for free.@@@@1@22@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@When You finetuned your virtual machine You can change workstation to player which is full free.)@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@- Ubuntu 7.04 - Linux like partitions connected - Time Tested with: - Windows XP Professional SP2 (With fresh drivers.)@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@- Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04 Desktop - VMware workstation 6 - My config is: Intel Hyperthread 3.0ghz +, 768GB RAM, WD HDD with XFS partitions Howto: 1.@@@@1@27@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Boot up Your Windows.@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Be sure, your Linux HDDs are connected.@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620120@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Check in Device Manager.@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620130@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The HDDs must appear there.@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620140@unknown@formal@none@1@S@(Not the partitions.)@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620150@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Download VMware workstation, get a registration key, and install it.@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620160@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Create a new virtual machine for Ubuntu or 2.6 Linux OS.@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620170@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I recommend 6-8GB virtual drive, half of your system RAM, and NAT networking.@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620180@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Insert Your Ubuntu CD, and start the virtual machine.@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620190@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Install a normal Ubuntu system.@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620200@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Shutdown Your installed virtual machine, open its settings, add your HDDs to the virtual machine.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620210@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Then start it again.@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620220@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Be careful!@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620230@unknown@formal@none@1@S@After the previous step your partitions are online, and accessible, writable etc...@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620240@unknown@formal@none@1@S@So look after your important files!@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620250@unknown@formal@none@1@S@6. Locate the names of your partitions device name.@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620260@unknown@formal@none@1@S@(Tip: You can find it at System->Settings->Hardware information find your HDDs with them volumes, than click on Advanced.@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620270@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There you can see the device name.)@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620280@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Insert your partitions into fstab: You must know the filesystem's name.@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620290@unknown@formal@none@1@S@(You can get this information from Hardwareinformation too.)@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620300@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Open a new folder in /media as a mounting point for the partition and set its permissions.@@@@1@17@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620310@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Open a terminal:@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620320@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Code:@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620330@unknown@formal@none@1@S@su mkdir /media/*mountpoint chmod 777 /media/*mountpoint@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620340@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Replace *mountpoint with the directory name what you want.@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620350@unknown@formal@none@1@S@(But I recommend the device name.@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620360@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For example: hdb1, hdb2, hdc1 etc...)@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620370@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now open the fstab for editing.@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620380@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Code:@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620390@unknown@formal@none@1@S@gedit /etc/fstab@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620400@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Open a new line, and insert your partitions data like that:@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620410@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Code:@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620420@unknown@formal@none@1@S@*devicename *mountingpoint *filesystem defaults 0 0@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620430@unknown@formal@none@1@S@(* You must replace with the correct data.)@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620440@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For example:@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620450@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Code:@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620460@unknown@formal@none@1@S@/dev/hdb1 /media/hdb1 xfs defaults 0 0@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620470@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Save it, than reboot, and check how is it works.@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620480@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Install, and configure Samba.@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620490@unknown@formal@none@1@S@When you finished installion, and added yourself to the server, open System->Administration->Shared folders Set the workgroup, and check in "The computer is a WINS server."@@@@1@25@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620500@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now You can share your partitions.@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620510@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You can permit write permissions if you want.@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620520@unknown@formal@none@1@S@10. Minimize the virtual machine's resurces.@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620540@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Decrase the shared RAM.@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620550@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Exactly I didn't finish that point.@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620560@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You can dull the system.@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620570@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I think you can stop gdm and other unnecessary services.@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620580@unknown@formal@none@1@S@11. I recommend a windows reboot, than start the linux virtual machine.@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 126000620600@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now you can discover your partitions in the windows networks.@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 126001250010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Video Howto: Ubuntu Terminal Commands: MAN@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 126001250020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@rtfm!@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 126001250030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Nice lil video for newbs out there... This video clip shows you how to use the man (manual page) command to view the manual pages for terminal commands.@@@@1@28@@danf@28-5-2012 126001250040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A manual page includes a brief description of the command as well as outlines the various options that may be used with the command.@@@@1@24@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Howto: Setup Vidalia TOR GUI with Ubuntu Linux, Tweak Tor for Speed and surf anonymously!@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480021@unknown@formal@none@1@S@[updated] - Added ppa archive, Updated Tor to latest Version, Updated To latest Vidalia Version and added Tor speed Tweaks!@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Do you want completely anonymous internet access?@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For Free?@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Tor is the open source leader to anonymous connections on the internet, you can anonymize your internet presence from AIM/ICQ/MSN/ Jabber/IRC/WWW/FTP and you can even issue a torify command at the command prompt to anonymize your wget/ssh/lynx/ftp/perl or whatever.@@@@1@39@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Basically tor is for the people by the people, it is only alive because we make it so, we can choose to use it freely or use it freely and help it out by running a server on your computer to make the internet safer.@@@@1@45@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Basically tor encrypts your data communications through chained/linked proxies all over the internet.@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Vidalia is a cross-platform controller GUI for Tor, built using the Qt framework.@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Using Vidalia, you can start and stop Tor, view the status of Tor at a glance, and monitor Tor’s bandwidth usage.@@@@1@21@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Vidalia also makes it easy to contribute to the Tor network by helping you set up and manage your own Tor server.@@@@1@22@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Vidalia runs on most platforms supported by Qt 4.1 or later, including Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux or other Unix variants using the X11 window system.@@@@1@27@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480120@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Here is how to set it up@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480121@unknown@formal@none@1@S@First things first@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480122@unknown@formal@none@1@S@lets get the latest tor and its dependencies then install Tor@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480123@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This post may be outdated,@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480124@unknown@formal@none@1@S@here is the latest src @@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480125@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ok now tor should be installed...@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480126@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now lets Install Vidalia GUI@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480127@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I prefer to grab the latest version and compile to source but I will give you the quick and easy way and then how to compile from src@@@@1@28@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480128@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Open up System->Preferences->Software Sources and enter these repositories into 3rd Party Repositories: @@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480129@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Then apt-get: Alternatively you can install this package by compiling it from source, here is how: This will apt get tor and the dependencies, wget vidalia, extract and cd to the directory and configure for you.@@@@1@37@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480130@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ @@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480131@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This vidalia package may be outdated, check here for the latest version!@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480132@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ @@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480133@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now the latest vidalia and Tor are compiled and installed!@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480140@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Once installed press alt F2 and open the run prompt and type in “vidalia” without the quotes, this will start tor, vidalia and you can configure tor/vidalia by right clicking on the tray applet and click on settings,@@@@1@38@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480141@unknown@formal@none@1@S@right there you can view all the nodes and choose what to connect to, see node uptimes, os’s and locations with a graphical map.@@@@1@24@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480150@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For web browsing in firefox I prefer using an extention named FoxyProxy@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480151@unknown@formal@none@1@S@it works well with firefox and swiftfox, you can grab this extention directly from here@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480152@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If you prefer stronger anonymity & protection I strongly Suggest Torbutton for firefox Direct Download NOW@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480153@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Install the addon and go through the Tor wizard and it will set you up for you and you can view which tor nodes you connect through actively via vidalia@@@@1@30@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480154@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I hope you enjoy my first tutorial on ubuntu privacy concerns.@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480160@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I hope many more people use tor and set up a server to anonymize the world.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480170@unknown@formal@none@1@S@[updated] Speed Tweaks for tor: Ok we all know tor can be slower than a turtle so, lets get to editing our torrc so we can improve the speed!@@@@1@29@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480180@unknown@formal@none@1@S@@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480181@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Paste this at the beginning of the torrc: @@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 126001480182@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now ctrl-s Save and exit, and restart tor/vidalia@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 126001850010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Howto: Setup Compiz Fusion with open source ati radeon drivers@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 126001850020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Older ATI cards have been blacklisted for Compiz Fusion because of a bug in the driver, but there is an easy workaround for many cards that use the open source ati drivers.@@@@1@32@@danf@28-5-2012 126001850030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Radeon 9500 are the oldest cards to support the restricted "fglrx" drivers, so everything older requires the open source drivers to function properly.@@@@1@23@@danf@28-5-2012 126001850040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@First edit the launcher for Compiz Fusion: @@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 126001850041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Near the top, add the line @@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 126001850042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I added it under VERBOSE="yes"@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 126001850043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You may also need to install the Compiz settings manager program that you can access from System->Preferences->Advanced Desktop Effect Settings | 1-click install or: @@@@1@25@@danf@28-5-2012 126001850044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You can now load Compiz Fusion with and revert to Metacity (the basic window manager) with @@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 126001850045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I suggest making launchers in a panel for this.@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 126001850050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Remember that this is a workaround and may not work for everybody.@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 126001850060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If you have further problems, you should consider running a forum search and then posting on one of the main support forums if you still need help.@@@@1@27@@danf@28-5-2012 126001850070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For the record, my card is an ATI Mobility Radeon 9000.@@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 126001850080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This Article was found here@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 126001870010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Howto: Easily Setup DVD Playback in Ubuntu with 1 Click@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 126001870020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Here is the easiest way to get dvd playback in Ubuntu Hardy Heron!@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 126001870030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Open the Terminal and paste these commands: @@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 126001870031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Click here to install DVD playback from your browser!@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 126001870032@unknown@formal@none@1@S@If the above does not work simply: @@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 126001870033@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Now startup your favorite media player and it *should decrypt the dvd* :)@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 126001930010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Platinum Top 10 Wine Game List@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 126001930020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Im not a big fan of wine games but I thought I would share the progress of the wine developers in getting these hot games to work with it.@@@@1@29@@danf@28-5-2012 126001930030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@I am still hoping gaming developers create linux clients for these games, leave direct x and start using opengl...@@@@1@19@@danf@28-5-2012 126001930031@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Here is the current top 10 platinum wine games.@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 126001930040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ Guild Wars - All Versions @@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 126001930041@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ Counter-Strike Retail - Steam@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 126001930042@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ Half Life 2 - Retail@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 126001930043@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ SilkRoad Online@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126001930044@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ Day of Defeat: Source Steam@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 126001930045@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ Watchtower Library 2007@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 126001930046@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ Call of Duty 2 1.0 - Retail@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 126001930047@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ Live For Speed S2@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 126001930048@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ Baldur's Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal v2.5.26498@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 126001930049@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ Tales of the Sword Coast: 1.3.5512@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 126001930050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Here is the rest of the Platinum List@@@@1@8@@danf@28-5-2012 126001930051@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Here is the Gold List@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Release Candidate for Ubuntu 8.10 is Out@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop and Server.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Codenamed "Intrepid Ibex", 8.10 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.@@@@1@23@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@New Features since Ubuntu 8.04 These features are showcased for your attention.@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Please test them and report any bugs you find on Launchpad: http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu .@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@GNOME 2.24@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@
  • Ubuntu brings you the newest GNOME 2.24 desktop environment with tons of bug-fixes and new features, some of which include:
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  • Nautilus file manager has tab support (by Christian Neumair) and Eject icons for removable drives in Places sidebar (by Stefano Teso, Cosimo Cecchi, Christian Neumair, and others).
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  • File Roller archive manager now supports ALZ, RZIP, CAB, TAR.7Z file types also (by Paolo Bacchilega and Changwoo Ryu).
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  • X.Org 7.4, the latest stable version of X.Org, is available in Intrepid.@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440120@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This release brings much better support for hot-pluggable input devices such as tablets, keyboards, and mice.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440130@unknown@formal@none@1@S@At the same time this will allow the great majority of users to run without a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440140@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A new failsafe X is introduced, to give better tools for troubleshooting X startup failures.
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  • The fglrx and two of the older nvidia binary drivers are not available for X.Org 7.4 yet, so users of these drivers will be automatically switched to the corresponding open source drivers.
    • @@@@1@32@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440160@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Linux kernel 2.6.27 Ubuntu 8.10 Beta includes Linux kernel 2.6.27, a significant release with better hardware support and numerous bug-fixes.@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440170@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Encrypted private directory The ecryptfs-utils package was recently promoted to Ubuntu main, with support for a secret encrypted folder in your Home Folder (by Michael Halcrow, Dustin Kirkland, and Daniel Baumann).@@@@1@31@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440180@unknown@formal@none@1@S@You can help test this new feature by going to Applications → Accessories → Terminal and typing: Guest session@@@@1@21@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440181@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The User Switcher panel applet (package fast-user-switch-applet) now provides an extra entry for starting a Guest session (by Martin Pitt).@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440190@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This creates a temporary password-less user account with restricted privileges: the account cannot access any users' home directories, nor permanently store data.@@@@1@22@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440200@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This is sufficiently safe to lend your laptop to someone else for a quick email check.@@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440210@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Network Manager 0.7 Ubuntu 8.10 Beta ships Network Manager 0.7 (by Dan Williams and others), which comes with long-expected features, such as:@@@@1@22@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440220@unknown@formal@none@1@S@
  • system wide settings (i.e., no need to log in in order to get a connection)
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  • management of 3G connections (GSM/CDMA)
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  • management of multiple active devices at once
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  • management of PPP and PPPOE connections
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  • management of devices with static IP configurations
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  • route management for devices
    • @@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440280@unknown@formal@none@1@S@More information can be found on the Network Manager wiki.@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440290@unknown@formal@none@1@S@DKMS DKMS (by Dell) is included in Ubuntu 8.10, allowing kernel drivers to be automatically rebuilt when new kernels are released.@@@@1@21@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440300@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This makes it possible for kernel package updates to be made available immediately without waiting for rebuilds of driver packages, and without third-party driver packages becoming out of date when installing these kernel updates.@@@@1@34@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440310@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Samba 3.2 A lot of new features have been added in Samba 3.2 amongst them:@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440320@unknown@formal@none@1@S@
  • clustered file server support
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  • encrypted network transport
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  • ipv6 support
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  • better integration with the latest version of Microsoft Windows™ clients and servers.
    • @@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440360@unknown@formal@none@1@S@PAM authentication framework Ubuntu 8.10 Beta features a new pam-auth-update tool, which allows simple management of PAM authentication configuration for both desktops and servers (by Steve Langasek).@@@@1@27@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440370@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Packages providing PAM modules will be configured automatically, and users can adjust their authentication preferences by running sudo pam-auth-update.@@@@1@19@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440380@unknown@formal@none@1@S@More information can be found in the Ubuntu wiki.@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440390@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Totem BBC plugin Ubuntu 8.10 Beta features a new plugin for the Totem movie player that fetches free digital content from the BBC.@@@@1@23@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440400@unknown@formal@none@1@S@To enable it, start Totem (Applications -> Sound & Video -> Movie Player), enable the plugin (Edit -> Plugins -> BBC content viewer) and select "BBC" from the drop-down labelled "Playlist".@@@@1@31@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440410@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The feed is fetched from a staging server at the moment so there may be a delay while it is downloaded.@@@@1@21@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440420@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Thanks to the BBC and Collabora for their work developing this feature.@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440430@unknown@formal@none@1@S@To upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04, press Alt+F2 and type in "update-manager -d" (without the quotes) into the command box.@@@@1@19@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440440@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Update Manager should open up and tell you: New distribution release '8.10' is available.@@@@1@14@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440450@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions.@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440451@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Get it while it's hot.@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440460@unknown@formal@none@1@S@ISOs and torrents are available at:@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440470@unknown@formal@none@1@S@http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/8.10 (Ubuntu) http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/edubuntu/8.10 (Edubuntu add-on) http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/kubuntu/8.10 (Kubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/8.10/beta (Xubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/8.10/beta (UbuntuStudio) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mythbuntu/releases/8.10/beta (Mythbuntu)@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440480@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Local mirrors are also available: Africa@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440490@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://bw.releases.ubuntu.com/ (Botswana)@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440491@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://ls.releases.ubuntu.com/ (Lesotho)@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440492@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://mz.releases.ubuntu.com/ (Mozambique)@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440493@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://sz.releases.ubuntu.com/ (Swaziland)@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440494@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://ubuntu.mirror.ac.za/ubuntu-release/ (South Africa)@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440495@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://zw.releases.ubuntu.com/ (Zimbabwe)@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440500@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Asia@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440510@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/ubuntu-releases/ (Japan)@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440511@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://ftp.cse.yzu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Ubuntu/ubuntu-cd/ (Taiwan)@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440512@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://ftp.daum.net/ubuntu-releases/ (Korea, Republic of)@@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440513@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://ftp.tcc.edu.tw/iso/Ubuntu/ (Taiwan)@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440514@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://ftp.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/pub/linux/ubuntu/releases/ (Japan)@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440515@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://tw.releases.ubuntu.com/ (Taiwan)@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440520@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Europe@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440530@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://se.releases.ubuntu.com/ (Sweden)@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440531@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://nl.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/ (Netherlands)@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440532@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://es.releases.ubuntu.com/ (Spain)@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440533@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/releases.ubuntu.com/ (Germany)@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440534@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/ubuntu.iso/ (Germany)@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440535@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://ie.releases.ubuntu.com/ (Ireland)@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440540@unknown@formal@none@1@S@North America@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440550@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso/CDs/ (United States)@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440551@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://linux.nssl.noaa.gov/releases/ (United States)@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440552@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/ubuntu-releases/ (Canada)@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440553@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://mirrors.ccs.neu.edu/releases.ubuntu.com/ (United States)@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440554@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://mirrors.gigenet.com/ubuntu/ (United States)@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440555@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu/releases/ (United States)@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440560@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Oceania/Australia@@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440570@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://ftp.citylink.co.nz/ubuntu-releases/ (New Zealand)@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440571@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://ftp.netspace.net.au/pub/ubuntu/releases/ (Australia)@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440572@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://nz2.releases.ubuntu.com/ (New Zealand)@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440573@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://ubuntu-releases.optus.net/ (Australia)@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440574@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/ubuntu/releases/ (Australia)@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440575@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://planetmirror.com/pub/ubuntu/releases/ (Australia)@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440580@unknown@formal@none@1@S@South America@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440590@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://mirror.globo.com/ubuntu/releases/ (Brazil)@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440591@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://ubuntu.c3sl.ufpr.br/releases/ (Brazil)@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126002440592@unknown@formal@none@1@S@* http://espelhos.edugraf.ufsc.br/ubuntu-releases/ (Brazil)@@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126002560010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@New: Pidgin 2.5.3 Released!@@@@1@4@@danf@28-5-2012 126002560020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Noteworthy in this release are that 58 bullet points are in the ChangeLog (not counting the headers for libpurple, Pidgin, Finch, and the protocols) and 85 tickets were closed, 40 of which were marked in trac as patches.@@@@1@38@@danf@28-5-2012 126002560030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Also of note is the insane amount of work Mark Doliner put into our MSN and MySpace plugins, which should resolve a number of crashes and the MySpace "doesn't sign off" issue.@@@@1@32@@danf@28-5-2012 126002560040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@A few big items to summarize:@@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 126002560050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@
  • Mark did massive code cleanup in MSN
    • @@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 126002560060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@
  • Mark fixed a number of shortcomings in the MySpace IM protocol as well as doing code cleanup.
    • @@@@1@17@@danf@28-5-2012 126002560070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@
  • We accepted a ton of patches.
    • @@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 126002560080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@
  • ICQ typing notifications should work for some third-party clients now.
    • @@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 126002560090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@
  • XMPP resources now default to the empty string, causing modern servers to assign us a resource via a bind.@@@@1@19@@danf@28-5-2012 126002560100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@In the event of an ancient server, such as the one DreamHost runs, we will detect the lack of this capability and enforce the default "Home" resource if a user hasn't set a resource.
    • @@@@1@34@@danf@28-5-2012 126002560110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@
  • XMPP resources can now include __HOSTNAME__ as a special token that will be replaced with the hostname of the machine being used.@@@@1@22@@danf@28-5-2012 126002560120@unknown@formal@none@1@S@For example, if I run Pidgin on my MacBook and configure the resource on an XMPP account to be __HOSTNAME__, the resource sent to the server will be "macbook", since this is the hostname of my MacBook.
    • @@@@1@37@@danf@28-5-2012 126002560130@unknown@formal@none@1@S@
  • Some long-outstanding patches have been applied for Gadu-Gadu, implementing IM images.
    • @@@@1@11@@danf@28-5-2012 126002560140@unknown@formal@none@1@S@
  • Apply some patches for Zephyr, enabling autoreply when away to emulate zaway and some bugs with the 'use tzc' option.
    • @@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 126002560150@unknown@formal@none@1@S@
  • We no longer get certificate errors for rsi.hotmail.com when logging into MSN and retrieving offline messages.
    • @@@@1@16@@danf@28-5-2012 126002560160@unknown@formal@none@1@S@
  • Many, many other things best read about in the ChangeLog.
    • @@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 126002560170@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Enjoy this release, which I'll call the "Thank-a-patch-writer" release!@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 126002560180@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Download Here@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780010@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ubuntu Remixes: 4 Of The Best Alternatives to Ubuntu -@@@@1@10@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780020@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Our recent article entitled Ubuntu As Intended drew in a fair amount of discussion about the base software and configuration in the default Ubuntu install.@@@@1@25@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780030@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some readers pointed out a few alternatives that aim to take the standard Ubuntu desktop and give it more polish than the original.@@@@1@23@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780040@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some of these projects just include a few extra packages, some replace the standard software suite, and others are complete makeovers.@@@@1@21@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780050@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Today we aim to sift through a few of the more popular Ubuntu variants to find the best ones of the bunch, and see what they can offer.@@@@1@28@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780060@unknown@formal@none@1@S@

    Linux Mint

    @@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780070@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Let’s get the obvious out of the way first.@@@@1@9@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780080@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Linux Mint is an extremely popular Ubuntu variant, and for good reason.@@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780090@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Mint provides several desktop solutions including Gnome, KDE, Fluxbox and XFCE, and what they all have in common is a solid software base with several of Linux’s “trickier” packages already installed.@@@@1@31@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780100@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This includes some non-free software so that you have support for MP3, DVD, and Flash right out of the box.@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780110@unknown@formal@none@1@S@

    Saner Defaults Remix

    @@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780120@unknown@formal@none@1@S@This is a fairly new project, but it’s beginning to gain a following.@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780130@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The basic idea of the Ubuntu SDR is that the stock Ubuntu is great, but some of the decisions regarding included software may not be ideal.@@@@1@26@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780140@unknown@formal@none@1@S@While that is of course subjective, it’s hard to argue with some of the enhancements found in SDR.@@@@1@18@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780150@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Some of the changes you’ll find include:@@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780160@unknown@formal@none@1@S@
  • Empathy IM replaced with Pidgin
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  • Min/Max/Close buttons moved back to the right
    • @@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780180@unknown@formal@none@1@S@
  • Evolution mail replaced with Mozilla Thunderbird
    • @@@@1@6@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780190@unknown@formal@none@1@S@
  • Simple clean blue (Clearlooks) theme
    • @@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780200@unknown@formal@none@1@S@
  • Gufw firewall included and activated on install
    • @@@@1@7@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780210@unknown@formal@none@1@S@
  • All Mono-based apps removed (includes GThumb for photos and Gnote for notes)
    • @@@@1@12@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780220@unknown@formal@none@1@S@
  • Multimedia repos enabled by default
    • @@@@1@5@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780230@unknown@formal@none@1@S@and more@@@@1@2@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780240@unknown@formal@none@1@S@

    Ubuntu Ultimate Edition

    @@@@1@3@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780250@unknown@formal@none@1@S@While some (including this author) find the intensity of the color scheme to be a bit jarring, Ultimate Edition does have a bit working for it, and one of those things is speed.@@@@1@33@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780260@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Several of the existing applications have been removed in favor of smaller and faster alternatives.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780270@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Additionally, UE gives you some help with a few of the more legally or technically complicated packages like Flash and DVD support, either by bundling in to the default system or providing install helpers.@@@@1@34@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780280@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Ultimate Edition is clearly the most “home made” of those on the list, but if you’re willing to tolerate or change the visual theme, it can quickly become a useful desktop.@@@@1@31@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780290@unknown@formal@none@1@S@

    Lubuntu

    @@@@1@1@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780300@unknown@formal@none@1@S@One common complaint about the normal Ubuntu release is that can sometimes be a bit slow, especially on older computers.@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780310@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Lubuntu aims to solve that by replacing the normal Gnome desktop with LXDE.@@@@1@13@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780320@unknown@formal@none@1@S@Gnome apps like Nautilus and Gnome Terminal have been replaced with the liked of PCMan File manager and LXTerminal.@@@@1@19@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780330@unknown@formal@none@1@S@The system is also designed to reduce power usage over the standard install, making Lubuntu and excellent choice for laptops.@@@@1@20@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780340@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There are certainly several other Ubuntu forks worth checking out, including Super OS, gOS, andwattOS.@@@@1@15@@danf@28-5-2012 126002780350@unknown@formal@none@1@S@There’s certainly no shortage of high-quality Ubuntu variants out there, so if you’ve got any others to recommend, let us know in the comments!@@@@1@24@@danf@28-5-2012