Archive for the 'ubuntu' Category
I found out about Blubuntu - it’s a very elegant theme and well worth trying out. Just go
sudo aptitude install blubuntu-look
just upgraded to 8.04 - no major issues although sound doesn’t work yet but will look into it
human theme still hideous - although i’ve hit on a much more elegant one that doesn’t ship with ubuntu by default. just install gnome-background and industrialtango theme from the repositories. you get a nice clean ui and some [...]
There seems to be a lot of noise about Mono, Novell and Microsoft at the moment, and the suspected use of Mono as a virus with which to infect Free and Open Source activities and software.
There are lots of Mono based applications available in Ubuntu, for example, such as Tomboy, Banshee, F-Spot, and so on, [...]
Using the new Gelatin theme and a nice grassy background with the Discovery icon set.
DBD::Oracle is not in the Ubuntu repositories so I’m going to build it from source. Oh what fun.
Steps
Download DBD::Oracle source from CPAN and untar to a directory somewhere
Download Oracle Instant Client for Linux x86 - get the Basic, SQL*Plus and SDK RPM packages for version 10.2.0.3
Install build-essential and alien from repositories if you haven’t already
Convert [...]
my hp dv2000 laptop has a nvidia geforce go 7200 as is evidenced by the following command output
lspci | grep -i nvidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce Go 7200 (rev a1)
I’ve upgraded my PC at work to Ubuntu, and need to connect to the Windows world so that I can access things from Perl and the like. Here’s the mount command I used.
sudo mkdir /mnt/windows_drive
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=xxxxx,password=yyyyyy //server/users /mnt/windows_drive
In 7.04 when trying to run multiple bittorrent downloads I was getting the error Couldn’t listen - (98, ‘Address already in use’).
This can easily be fixed by starting the Gnome configuration editor, then drilling down to the gnome-btdownload settings folder in “Apps”, then set the value of max_port to 6889. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-btdownload/+bug/57039 for more [...]
Vide my previous post, there is also a Gnome ALSA Mixer package called gnome-alsamixer, which is a bit nicer to use.
