There is a new catch if you want to enable 5.1 surround sound in Ubuntu 9.04. First you need to follow the same steps like you did for Hardy Heron. There is an old post I wrote about it.
In this new version of PulseAudio they don’t synthesize an LFE signal anymore by default.
They introduced [...]
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No LFE (Low-Frequency Effects) in Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)
Apply themes to GTK apps running as root
When you install custom GTK themes, applications running as root will still look ugly.
To make your current installed themes available to the root account as well, you just need to run these in your terminal:
sudo ln -s ~/.themes /root/.themes
sudo ln -s ~/.icons /root/.icons
sudo ln -s ~/.fonts /root/.fonts
Enjoy!
Songbird: glibc 2.8 detects invalid free() pointer
Sometimes I use Songbird to listen to my music files or internet radio. On some systems running Ubuntu 8.10 it does not run. The error is a known bug reported by some people.
The resolution is simple. Just remove libvisual-0.4-plugins.
sudo apt-get purge libvisual-0.4-plugins
Enjoy your music!
Bash script to retrieve info about current playing track on ARM.FM
I am a big fan of ARM.FM.
Their playlist contains the freshest tracks in the dance music.
I wanted to keep track of the tunes I like the most, so I made a little script to update a file on my desktop with the name of the track currently playing.
Here is the script, you may use and/or [...]
Install Django on Ubuntu 8.10
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
To install it on your Ubuntu, follow the next steps:
1. Install python (if you have it installed, skip this step)
sudo apt-get install python
2. Download the tarball from the Django Project website. You can download this file to your home directory.
cd
wget http://www.djangoproject.com/download/1.0.2/tarball/
tar [...]
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