For using Video Chat over different continents you need under Ubuntu 10.04 following steps: – buy a older used good Webcam Logitech Fusion (UVC-Driver-Webcam) – go to Skype Homepage install Skype Beta for 8.10 (working on 10.04 too) – plugin Webcam – install skype-deb paket #sudo apt-get install skype-ubuntu-intrepid_2.1.0.81-1_i386.deb – login to skype if you […]
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Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx disable hide REBOOT SHUTDOWN STANDBY SUSPEND GNOME SYSTEM MENU SECURE KIOSK MODE
Problem: If you install ubuntu 10.04 Desktop by default every user can shutdown,reboot,hibernate or standby a PC If you want to disable this make: – install gdm2conf from the ppa channel to customize hide System Menu at Login GDM2 Manager – create custom Gnome System Menu Policy against User shutdown,reboot,hibernate or standby. Steps: create new […]
Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04: Nautilus hangs freeze Desktop at FTP SFTP mount
System: i386 Lucid Lynx default setup Problem: If you try to mount a local ftp share Nautilus stops working by loading files of a folder like 100 Images Solution: Remove Samba-Common and Nautilus-share with #sudo aptitude remove nautilus-share samba-commone –purge try now ftp mount..this bug is reported and unsolved
FreeBSD 8.0: Perl Webmin Bug
System FreeBSD 8.0 R3 AMD64 Webmin 1.510 Perl 5.8.9 Webmin-Log: symbol “sdbm_open” – do portupgrade -f webmin – do portupgrade -f perl – do perl-after-upgrade -f (to update all deps of Perl)
Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 Review Workstation: Phenom X6 1090T
Today i got new parts for my workstation: – Phenom X6 1090T – Asus M4N75TD AM3 – 8GB RAM 1333Mhz from Kingston 4x 2GB Kingston HyperX – Graphic Card Nvidia 8400GS Low Noise (fanless) runs well as low noise workstation! tests following… Board works on: – FreeBSD 8.0 (nforce 750) – Debian Lenny 5.0 AMD64 […]
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx: Change Image Location Path of Screensaver Slideshow – Xscreensaver
If you want to use a other Path for xscreensaver Slideshow then create as user file called #nano .xscreensaver and insert: imageDirectory: /home/username/wallpapers
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx: JWM Window Manager hangs on Login
Bug: If you want to use JWM as fast Window Manager instead of Gnome you got a little Bug, after Login at GDM Login Manager the JWM Desktop seems to hang. Background: missing deps of menu and menu-xdg Solution: #sudo aptitude install menu menu-xdg #sudo update-menus #sudo service gdm restart if you miss some installed […]
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Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04: Disable IPv6 (dmesg = no IPv6 routers present)
Problem: on default ubuntu lucid lynx setup ipv6 is enabled, dmesg shows boot.log= wlan0: no IPv6 routers present to speed up on a ipv4 network you should disable it. Solution: – run #sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf add lines: #disable ipv6 net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1 -quit save and reboot.. -to test system […]
Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04: Login Manager GDM with Mac Look
download theme: here and run: sudo gdmsetup or gdm2setup (Lucid) Mac OS is NOT shown under ubuntu you will see PC Name like “Laptop”
How to compile the Centos SME Server 7.4 Linux Kernel 2.6.34
Download the latest stable kernel from the http://www.kernel.org/ unpack the downloaded source file. Steps: # wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.34.tar.bz2 # tar xjf tar xjf linux-2.6.34.tar.bz2 # ln -s linux-2.6.34 linux # cd linux # cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config # make menuconfig (here you can select .config as preselected .config from old kernel) # make rpm (Compile the […]
Change Default Browser on Debian Ubuntu Linux to Opera
run as root/sudo: #update-alternatives –config x-www-browser System shows: Auswahl Alternative ———————————————– 1 /usr/bin/iceweasel *+ 2 /usr/bin/opera Enter: 2 relogin into X-Server/Desktop and Opera is default!