Archive for November 2007

Wammu is mobile phone manager running on Linux, Windows and possibly other platforms, where Gammu and wxPython works.
To install it on Ubuntu issue the following command:
sudo apt-get install wammu
Here is a screenshot:

To make your Nokia 6230 connect to Ubuntu using a bluetooth device, edit your ~/.gammurc file to contain:

[gammu]
port = xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
connection = bluerfphonet
name = Nokia [...]

gt5 is a console command which provides an easy to understand interface to show a detailed disk usage list. Due to its console nature, i recommend using this tool for remote computers too.
Install it on Ubuntu using the following command:
sudo apt-get install gt5

They say ‘Easy to learn, Easy to work, Easy to play.’ I say ‘All You Need is an Eee Pc and a Dream!’
PcNews si ASUS Romania pun la bataie 3 Eee PC pentru cei ce publica cele mai interesante sloganuri pentru Eee PC.

Detalii despre concurs aici.
Detalii tehnice despre Eee PC aici si aici.
Nu ma apuc [...]

In the following video, Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz give us a short demonstration of Google’s new open source platform for mobile devices, Android.

Nice!
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2037035841&size=o

iftop does for network usage what top does for CPU usage. It listens to network traffic on a named interface and displays a table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts.
More info here.

Very nice pictures!

http://picasaweb.google.com/rbmgogu

It is possible to install Firefox add-ons for all users that use a computer instead of installing them for every user separately. This is helpful if you are the computer guy in the family for instance and want everyone to have a basic set of extensions enabled that add functionality and security to the accounts.
The [...]

1. Install build-essential and libgtk2.0-dev packages:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libgtk2.0-dev

2. Download Nodoka GTK+ engine 0.6 from here.
3. Extract tarball package:

tar zxvf gtk-nodoka-engine-0.6.90.2.tar.gz

4. Now go to gtk-nodoka-engine-0.6 directory:

cd gtk-nodoka-engine-0.6.90.2

5. Configure:

./configure –prefix=/usr –enable-animation

6. Make:

make

7. Install:

sudo make install

Install theme
1. Get Nodoka theme 0.3.2 from here.
Then execute command in terminal:

tar zxvf nodoka-theme-gnome-0.3.90.tar.gz

2. Copy the Nodoka folder to themes folder:

cd [...]

Qps is a visual process manager, an X11 version of “top” or “ps” that displays processes in a window and lets you sort and manipulate them.
Install it on Ubuntu using the following command:
sudo apt-get install qps
Screenshot: