Intel graphics fix 9.04 May 27th, 2009
This is the card I have:
Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
But since early stages of Jaunty I have not been able to use Compiz or any of the extra effects I was used to in Ubuntu 8.10
A bug (if you want some extra information) has been filed in Launchapd with number: 259385
But the bug above states a problem when installing. If you already have this installed you only need to comment out two lines in /usr/bin/compiz:
#T="$T 8086:2982 8086:2992 8086:29a2 8086:2a02 8086:2a12" # intel 965
#T="$T 8086:2a02 " # Intel GM965
After this you should immediately be able to enable extra effects.
Alternative to Network Manager May 17th, 2009
Let me rant once before anything else: "Network Manager SUCKS!"
After thinking that I may be having problem with my network speeds, or maybe a faulty wireless card, I tried WICD.
It absolutely ROCKS.
Before you needed to edit your sources.list to add a line for a repository but not anymore with Ubuntu 9.04. Just do:
sudo apt-get install wicd
And you are set.
But beware!: This will remove network-manager and restart your network connection.
You will find an entry in Applications => Internet => WICD T start configuring your connections.
Works like a charm, hope you find it as good as I do.
Liten2 find duplicate files April 21st, 2009
I have just finished creating a command line tool to find duplicates in your file system and generate a report to list the files or enter an interactive session to select what files to delete.
It uses the powerful sha-224 to create checksums of the files and then groups the same files together so you can choose what to delete and what to keep.
This is probably not Ubuntu specific but since I use it with my Ubuntu Desktops and servers, I thought it was a good idea to post it here.
To download the latest version, and get the documentation go to Google Code:
Amarok 2 and MySQL 5.1 March 15th, 2009
In the first few releases of Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.04) Amarok has had issues trying load correctly with MySQL. This since has been resolved and if you are running the latest releases for 9.04 you should be fine.
However, if you have any MP3 files you will not be able to play them and Amarok will not tell you why except for a:
"Playback stopped"
or
"Could not build filelist"
That will come up only if you Amarok via command line.
The issue?
MP3 support of course.
At the command line:
sudo apt-get install libxine1-ffmpeg
Restart Amarok and you are good to go.
Secure browsing in a public network March 3rd, 2009
Every now and then I go to a public place and connect to the network to start my browsing.
This was ok until I found a way to encrypt my connection via SSH and Firefox.
Open a terminal and type the command:
ssh -D 9999 localhost
This basically creates a SOCKS Proxy that you will use with firefox to browse safely.
On Firefox, go to:
Edit => Preferences => Advanced => Network (tab) => Settings
Select the "Manual Proxy configuration" and fill the "SOCKS Host" with these values:
localhost 9999
Click OK and test. If you can't see any websites then you are probably missing a step. Remember to keep that terminal window open while you use the SOCKS Proxy. The connection will be lost if you close the terminal window.
Happy safe browsing!
We are on App Engine! February 6th, 2009
It seems a little rough now, but we are now running on App Engine.
All the posts and comments where imported but without line breaks...
Oh Well..
Small price to pay to get away from PHP based hosting.
Autocomplete with apt-get November 24th, 2008
Prevent Indexes to be listed October 28th, 2008
Configuring SNMP October 21st, 2008
Python for SysAdmins Virtual Server August 31st, 2008
- Ubuntu 7.10 Server Version (no X or GUI installed)
- Compressed in tar.gz format is 548 MB total (4GB decompressed).
- Created with VMWare version 1.0.5
- 2 x 2gb hard drives.
- 512MB of RAM
- 1st hard drive mounted in "/"
- 2nd hard drive mounted in "/usr"
- VMWare tools installed
- Trac and Subversion integrated together and served via Apache including all the code.
- Fully working SAMBA and LDAP configuration as a Primary Domain Controller.
- Apache authenticates user(s) to LDAP.
- Download the latest version of the VM by doing: wget http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596515829/vm/
- Untar the file: tar xzvf py4sa.tar.gz
- You need VMWare Server installed (version 1.0.5 or higher). Open it and go to File -> Open
- Browse where the uncompressed image is and select the "py4sa.vmx" file.
- Select the image in the main screen and hit the PLAY button. IMPORTANT! Hit "keep" or "I have copied this image" when prompted the first time you run the image.
- Check the "Important Notes" for a couple of bugs related to the login prompt.
- All login/password credentials are: user: py4sa password: py4sa
- The image will load Apache2, SAMBA, LDAP, Subversion and Trac by default, so you should have everything running from the get-go.
- Run "ifconfig" to see the IP address the image has and type the same IP into your browser to see "Python For SysAdmins" as a listed project for Trac.
- This Ubuntu Server Version seems to have a bug where it will show you the login prompt before finishing the complete loading of all the services.
- It will hang at the line where it tries to run the rc.local scripts. You need to hit "enter" to get the login prompt again.
- There is a changelog in "/root/changelog" that has some information on the work done to the VM.