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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Configuring ecryptfs

23-Feb-09

I was reading through my buddy’s security blog, Security Aegis, and realized that my current security setup in Ubuntu is absolutely terrible – I have a Truecrypt container I dump things into from time to time, and that’s really about it. After recently discovering the Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference, I took [...]

Couldn’t resist

23-Feb-09

Nice.

‘course, it isn’t the DJI ‘runts’…

Yep.

Installing Java x64 in Ubuntu

22-Feb-09

Download jre-6u14-linux-x64.bin jre-6u12-linux-x64.bin (hosted locally)
mkdir /usr/lib/jvm (might already exist)
sudo mv jre-6u14-linux-x64.bin /usr/lib/jvm/
cd /usr/lib/jvm/
sudo chmod a+x jre-6u14-linux-x64.bin
sudo ./jre-6u14-linux-x64.bin
sudo rm -r /usr/lib/jvm/jre-6u14-linux-x64.bin
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jre1.6.0_14/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so /usr/lib64/firefox-addons/plugins/
killall firefox

Restart firefox,  it’s good to go.  Tested it with Wordle and GoToMyPC and didn’t have any issues at all – every other Java install method I’ve used hasn’t worked.
Installed & tested [...]

Logitech MX-518 with Gnome in Ubuntu 8.10

21-Feb-09

Not having my back/forward keys working in anything in Ubuntu was driving me nuts – in Windows I was absolutely dependent on being able to lazily click the side buttons (even though I use mouse gestures). The first thing I stumbled across seemed simple enough.
hyperq just replaced his InputDevice section with the code below, [...]