Managed to completely screw something up that caused flash to stop working, my drives no longer want to mount, and probably one or two others things that I didn’t bother to find out first. On top of that ever since I switched USB ports on my mouse fiddling around a week or [...]
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Installing Ubuntu 8.10 from scratch
25-Jan-09Customize the bash prompt
21-Jan-09http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=614743
cd ~/
cp .bashrc .bashrc-backup
touch .bash_colors
gedit .bash_colors
Paste in:
# ANSI color codes
RS=”\[\033[0m\]“ # reset
HC=”\[\033[1m\]“ # hicolor
UL=”\[\033[4m\]“ # underline
INV=”\[\033[7m\]“ # inverse background and foreground
FBLK=”\[\033[30m\]” # foreground black
FRED=”\[\033[31m\]” # foreground red
FGRN=”\[\033[32m\]” # foreground green
FYEL=”\[\033[33m\]” # foreground yellow
FBLE=”\[\033[34m\]” # foreground blue
FMAG=”\[\033[35m\]” # foreground magenta
FCYN=”\[\033[36m\]” # foreground cyan
FWHT=”\[\033[37m\]” # foreground white
BBLK=”\[\033[40m\]” # background black
BRED=”\[\033[41m\]” # background red
BGRN=”\[\033[42m\]” # background green
BYEL=”\[\033[43m\]” # [...]
To resolve this error:
“Google Gears” could not be installed because it is not compatible with your Firefox build type (Linux_x86_64-gcc3). Please contact the author of this item about the problem
Stan Joel posted the lastest (5.18.0) on Issue 335
Download: http://jms.id.au/~shenki/gears/gears-linux-x86_64-opt-0.5.18.0.xpi
In Firefox, click File -> Open File, find gears-linux-opt-0.5.18.0.xpi
Click “Install Now” when prompted
Restart Firefox
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