[Update] – Fixed the DREAIMG.nbh link, it should now work fine – tested it this time. Thanks @Doshin!
This is the instructions that ended up working flawlessly to root my G1, install JesusFreke’s 1.51 T-Mobile US ROM, and setup AppstoSD. I must’ve wiped my phone about a half-dozen times and spent ridiculous amounts of time trying [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]