I installed Google Earth 5.0 and the ugly UI font from the beta is still here. Based on the comments from Google Earth Help page from here I’ve created the following script wich will fix the user interface font issue. #!/bin/bash sudo aptitude -y install libqt4-webkit ge=`which googleearth` if [ -n "$ge" ]; [...]
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HOWTO Force fsck on the Next Reboot
fsck is used to check and optionally repair one or more Linux file systems. By creating /forcefsck file you will force the Linux system (or rc scripts) to perform a full file system check. Create a file called forcefsck: sudo touch /forcefsck
Thinkpad HDAPS in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty
One of the cool features in a Thinkpad is IBM Active Protection System. The system consist of two parts. The driver that enables reading the acceleration data and some sort of userspace software that does the actual parking of the harddrive heads, usually hdapsd. The hdaps driver is part of the kernel but the driver [...]
Android applications running on Ubuntu
Canonical will develop an environment wich will allow Andoid applications to run on Ubuntu. Source. Also, HP considers dropping Windows for Android in netbooks. Source.
Random crash of the X server in Jaunty
I experienced a lot of random X server crashes using the proprietary driver for the NVIDIA graphic card on my Thinkpad T61 running Ubuntu 9.04 x86 with Compiz activated. I managed to fix the problem by installing the lastest NVIDIA driver. I wrote a little script to automate the process and save time. I recommend [...]
Custom usplash resolution in Ubuntu
Recently I made a clean install of Ubuntu 9.04 on my Thinkpad T61. I configured the figerprint, the accelerometer is reporting correct values. I did not like the default resolution at boot. So I created a custom usplash.conf file: sudo joe /etc/usplash.conf I should contain these lines: xres=1680 yres=1050 The next step was to update [...]
Auto update for Debian/Ubuntu
I use the following script to automatically update my Ubuntu box. I don’t recommend using this on your servers! #!/bin/bash ################################################# ## ## ## auto-update.sh v1.0 ## ## Use this script to set up automatic updates ## ## on your debian/ubuntu box. ## ## ## ################################################# ## Creating /usr/bin/auto-update.sh file sudo touch /usr/bin/auto-update.sh [...]
No LFE (Low-Frequency Effects) in Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)
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 [...]
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!
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