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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Creating gnome keyboard shortcuts

27-Jan-09

I just found out about gconf-editor and have been crawling through here customizing my gnome desktop to my exact specifications – this program lets you do just about anything you can think of to the gnome environment.  This evening I just wanted my shortcut keys working again.

Hit <Alt>F2 then type gconf-editor and hit <enter>
Click Apps [...]

Installing Adobe Flash Player in Ubuntu 8.10 x64

27-Jan-09

Gotta love reinstalling… a friend just sent me a Youtube link and I completely forgot that I didn’t have flash.

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
killall firefox

Started Firefox back up again and was able to click the link he sent me – viewed just fine. Love how easy it is in this version of Ubuntu.

Checking Ubuntu boot times

26-Jan-09

Occasionally it’s fun to waste some time shooting your friends and unfortunately Ubuntu just isn’t up to speed when it comes to gaming – so I dual boot into a stripped Vista installation.  I’d like to make switching back and forth as quick as possible.
First thing I did was go and get Bootchart, “a tool [...]

Installing xchat with mircryption in Ubuntu x64 & i386

26-Jan-09

x64 instructions:

sudo apt-get install xchat
wget http://mircryption.sourceforge.net/Downloads/mircryption_xchatsrc.zip
wget http://voobar.follvalsch.de/files/mcps_xchat_0.4.0-alpha.tar.bz2
unzip mircryption_xchatsrc.zip
tar -xvf mcps_xchat_0.4.0-alpha.tar.bz2 -C /src
cd /src/mcps_xchat_0.4.0-alpha
mv Makefile ../ && mv dh1080 ../ && mv mircryption.cpp ../
cd ..

Ran into this error on install and realized I hadn’t installed a compiler since reinstallation. There actually is no readme.txt and no .so file was created.
Trying to install mircryption.so into ~/.xchat2 [...]

Installing Dropbox in Ubuntu 8.10

26-Jan-09

Step by step:

cp /etc/apt/sources.list sources.list.bak
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Paste the following at the bottom of the file (for 8.04 change intrepid to hardy):
deb http://linux.getdropbox.com/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://linux.getdropbox.com/ubuntu intrepid main

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox
killall nautilus

For Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
* (cp /etc/apt/sources.list sources.list.bak ; cat sources.list.bak ; echo “deb http://linux.getdropbox.com/ubuntu intrepid main” ; echo “deb-src http://linux.getdropbox.com/ubuntu intrepid [...]