tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62956959852447703782012-01-25T17:03:49.665ZMainly written as my own personal notebook for Ubuntu Linux tutorials, tips and help. If it helps someone else, then great.Subbasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11856024057020569566noreply@blogger.comBlogger561100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6295695985244770378.post-26666465171787650812011-02-02T14:51:00.003Z2011-02-02T21:40:43.819Z

Just recently I had a situation where I needed to extract multiple archives, roughly 100 in fact, with each being in a sub folder. Not particularly wanting to sit clicking into each folder, right click the archive and extract each one, then move the file (avi in this case) up into the parent folder I got busy on the terminal. Luckily this is a perfect job for Bash and instead of the job taking

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I picked up this excellent tip from Webupd8.First you should have installed Nautilus Open Terminal for an initial very useful shortcut. It adds a menu entry on the right click and in the File menu to do exactly what it says, open a terminal at the current folder you have open in the active Nautilus window. So enter the following into a terminal.sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminalIf it is

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I need to clarify that this is on the Acer Aspire One 110, a couple of comments have indicated that the wifi fix did not work on their machines, one at least has a different model and its entirely my mistake I didn't state clearly which model it is I have, well the wife and I both have. Doing a lspci shows we have Atheros AR5001 wireless device. Post install there are a number of things that

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Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx has moved the window buttons to the left on the title bar. Its a peculiar thing to decide to do and myself and others I have spoken with can't see *why* they should chose to do it. The only answer I keep coming back to is that this is just something to stand out and give a unique(ish) appearance, as part of their re-branding.Well, I would much prefer them back over on the

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This is now not necessary as Ubuntu 10.04 has dual pane built-in, just hit F3Found this on OMGBuntu and have been using it, its pretty useful so far and has been stable.sudo add-apt-repository ppa:berndth/ppaThen I opened up Synaptic and clicked "Reload" to reload all repository data, and "Mark all Upgrades" and apply it. Alternatively you can do:sudo apt-get update &&;sudo apt-get

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Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala changed the way USB devices get mounted a little bit. Instead of being mounted as /media/disk and then each other device becoming /media/disk-1, disk-2 and so forth, now the device is mounted with its UUID, a seemingly random string.I never minded the disk-1, disk2 thing, though it was slightly annoying to not know which device was which sometimes it was seldom a problem

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This new setting became a pet hate of mine within minutes of installing Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, there is a 60 second delay and confirmation dialog when logging out, restarting or shutting down. This default can be over-ridden to act instantly rather than waiting for 60 seconds or clicking a confirmation by setting the apps/indicator-session/suppress_logout_restart_shutdown boolean to true as

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All credit for this goes to This Blog Entry where I found this helpful information.If you are an early riser like myself (well, occasionally at least) then you may notice your PC grinding away on its harddrives like a mad thing. I have around 3TB of storage so the problem is exacerbated somewhat. The process to blame is updatedb.mlocat which runs between 6am and 7am, I want a quiet morning with

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The new method of alerting users to updates seems ever so slightly hair brained to me, but what do I know. Well I do know I prefer the old method where I was alerted each day, not the new method of waiting 7 days to make the alert. And only being alerted then if 7days had passed since the last activity in apt!Ok, here is the fast fix:gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch

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Do you want to be able to use the history from another terminal quickly and simply in a new terminal, or to be able to use any one of the terminals on your desktops to continue working with a current history?Me too :]This is a very easy tweak and makes a lot of sense to most people. So we need to edit the file ~/.bashrcgedit ~/.bashrcAt the bottom paste in the following:shopt -s

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I've been Apwal for a while now and have been surprised how few people have even heard of it let alone tried it. It gives you a bunch of launcher items that can pop up at you cursor location, its quick and simple and very useful.First open a terminal and enter the following line to install it, or use synaptic if you prefer a GUI.sudo apt-get install apwalNow its loaded we should add some

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I required a simple solution to easily secure some data, a single folder that could be encrypted and require a password to decipher being the ideal solution. A quick google soon pointed me to a couple fo options, Truecrypt and Cryptkeeper. Truecrypt seemed far more than I required but Cryptkeeper was perfect for my use.To get it installed and any extra dependencies issue the following from a

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While on holiday I was unable to SSH into my home PC one morning, worrying slightly about what might have happened as the machine is normally rock solid stable I called home to my parents who live very close and asked my mother when she went around to reboot the machine (assuming the house was ok and hadn't burnt down or been burgled)She called me back up, the lights on the keyboard were flashing

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Before I went on holiday last week I had an internal drive start to fail, so a quick look at Ebuyer and a new Samsung Ecodrive F2 1.5TB monster was delivered. I swapped out the drives and went on holiday. While I was away I realised that I had left the default setting on the drive for system reserved space. Almost 80GB was reserved by the system for logs and such which I feel is a tad excessive

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You can add a extra layer of protection to your machine, or in my case help to prevent wannabe haxx0r brothers at the parents house from changing to extremely short passwords with a little trick that not many are aware of.What happened to me was my brother managed to shoulder surf the admin account on my parents PC, I normally update their PC by SSH from home, but I was around there visiting and

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While mucking about with some scripts I got a little bored of copying them into files and chmod +x and copying them into the path, so I just knocked up this little scriptlet. It will optionally set the execute flag on the file if it is a script you are pasting, or leave it as a normal txt file for just saving some text.First install the package xclip with either Synaptic or:sudo apt-get install

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To be clear, this is how to login using SSH to another machine without having to enter your password. It is not an all encompassing solution but a "good enough" set up. I have to administer a couple of machines and a shell which I have use of, my own machine is kept up to date and I feel is secure enough with only myself as sole user. Firstly we should make a key pair if you haven't already done

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Ever wondered how people get the album covers on the desktop of the tracks they are listening too?From Ubuntu Linux Tips and TutorialsI'm happy to say its very simple, though it will depend on your albums having the cover art available in the mp3 folders.Open up a terminal and simply paste these commands in one at a time:If you do not have subversion installed then issue the following command, if

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Not every computer has the resources to run Compiz, but if you pine after some nice effects like window shadows then there is a good chance your computer is capable of running simpler effects. i use this on my Acer Aspire One, sure it can manage Compiz, but it is a little overkill on the baby netbook.Well rejoice now as Metacity has a composite manager built in which can give you nice drop

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I might be in the minority with this sentiment but I really dislike the transparency Gnome has gained on its inactive window titles when using the GTK window decorator. So here is how to make inactive windows have a solid title-bar or if you are are fan of it, make it even more transparent.Press alt+F2 and in the run dialog enter:gconf-editorNavigate in the left hand tree to the branch /apps/gwd/

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It isn't possible to use OTF fonts directly in Ubuntu without converting them into TTF's.If we spend just a few minutes and install FontForge and make a very small script it becomes almost trivial to do.sudo apt-get install fontforgeNow we should make the scripts, well it is two actually but one is a small config script for FontForge and the other is just a script to convert many OTF files in one

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Lets learn how to create split Rar filesIf you have a large amount of data to backup or especially to transfer it can be very prudent to use an archive that can be split into smaller parts, if one section becomes corrupted during transfer, it is far better to transfer a single 15mb file again, than an entire 10GB file, right?Lets grab the rar program: sudo apt-get install rarOk lets compress

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Autohide panels in Gnome default to a 6 pixel strip remaining showing. I suspect this is done to "reduce confusion" which is a popular phrase from the Gnome guys, regardless its a little annoying to autohide a panel and still have it show around 20% of itself, so lets fix that.The easiest way to do this is pop open a terminal and enter:gconf-editorThis is quite a daunting program if you are

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This is how to cause some programs to wait until they run from the autostart, I will cover both Gnome and Openbox.First, how to do this in Gnome. Fire up the Session manager either from preferences or via:gnome-session-properties Now when you either edit an existing entry, or add a new one the command should be in the following format:bash -c "sleep 30; gnome-do"This will make Gnome Do wait 30

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This may also work for other WM like Fluxbox and TWM.The Debian menu builds a menu from all the installed applications on your system and nicely organises them. I believe it also keeps it updated when you install new software so you do not have to manually add items to your Openbox menu.To install it use:sudo aptitude install menuAfter it is installed run:sudo update-menusTo enable the menu in

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Using a simple command line command it is very simple to rotate any number of images using the exif data (hopefully) contained in the image. Most cameras will save the exif data and include the camera rotation when the photograph was taken.sudo apt-get install jheadthen when we run the following command in the folder it will losslessly rotate the photographs that need it.jhead -autorot *Job done

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Rxvt is a super fast unicode terminal which I have recently switched to away from Eterm for my transparent desktop terminal.sudo apt-get install rxvt-unicode-mlNext is to create a configuration file for it in your home folder.touch .XdefaultsNow paste this lot in... URxvt*termName: rxvt ## borderless and no scrollbar URxvt*scrollBar_right: false URxvt*scrollBar: false URxvt*borderLess:

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Revert the change in notifications of available updates to original behaviour.Open a terminal and issue the command:gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch falseThis will do away with the Update manager automatically opening and revert to showing the update icon instead effectively reverting to original behaviour. The new method seems like a massive regression to me. I don't

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Synaptic fails to show search results for packages that you know are present.This was an annoying little problem I had on 8.10 and bless my soul if it didn't occur on my fresh clean install of 9.04, so I thought I should throw the solution up here in case I need it again, or anyone else does.Open a terminal and issue the following commandsudo update-apt-xapian-indexIt will just take a couple of

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Logitech G9 on Ubuntu 9.04 JauntyInfo taken from : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1092352Firstly we need to install a couple of extra programs so open up a terminal and copy/paste the following line: sudo apt-get install xvkbd xbindkeys Next up we need to make a ~/.xbindkeysrc and put the next few lines into it: "/usr/bin/xvkbd -xsendevent -text "\[Alt_L]\[left]"" b:6"/usr/bin/

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Control+Alt+Backspace shortcut does not restart the X serverEdit: I believe this was removed because the kernal already contained another combo that does the same job, Alt+SysReq+k will terminate and restart X if it should become unresponsive.If you would prefer the old key combination then issue the following two commands in a terminal. I would advise against this though, but as always, the

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Install Samba Server on Ubuntu If you want to share files between your Ubuntu and Windows computers, your best option is to use Samba file sharing. To install, first open a terminal window and enter the following command: sudo apt-get install samba smbfs We’ve got samba installed, but now we’ll need to configure it to make it accessible. Run the following command to open the

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How to install Filezilla3Very simple, download Filezilla from http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=clientThen run these commands in a terminal where you downloaded the file to:sudo tar jxvf FileZilla_3.2.5_i586-linux-gnu.tar.bz2 -C /opt/sudo chown -R root:root /opt/FileZilla3/sudo chmod -R 755 /opt/FileZilla3/You may need to edit the first line to correct for version/name changes to the

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How to read 20 magazines for free.You will need Firefox and an addon called User agent Switcher and configure it with an iPhone setting :Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419 (United States)You can then visit http://zinio.com/iphone/ and read 20 magazines each month for free.It gets better though, it is very simple

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Just updated my Acer Aspire One (Intreprid 8.10) and the wifi broke. A quick poke around and installed:linux-backports-modules-genericAfter a reboot the wifi sprang back into life.

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Fix Naultilus slow loading some directories.If nautilus is taking an age to load some directories on your computer then you may have Assistive Technologies enabled.Simply go to the System menu on your desktop and then in Preferences. Click on Assistive Technologies.Untick the box marked "Enable Assistive Technologies" and choose "Close and Log Out" at the bottom of the window.When you log back in

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Disable IPV6 on Ubuntu.Some people feel loading IPV6 can improve the network performance and if your ISP doesn't support IPV6 yet (which most do not) then it will do no harm to disable it.sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklistappend the following line:blacklist ipv6Save the file and restart your machine!You can verify that ipv6 is actually disabled using the following command:ip a | grep inet6If

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I recently started using XFCE on my Aspire One. I've always liked XFCE and alternated it with Gnome just for variety. Anyway using XFCE full time made me wish for a method to change the wallpaper every X number of minutes so after some hunting and poking this was the solution for automatic wallpaper changing.First step is to define a list of wallpapers to use in the normal Desktop settings

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You will need to add a new repository that contains recent Compiz packages. Open System->Administration->Software Sources. Select the Third-Party Software tab and click Add. Paste in the line below and click Add Source.deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/compiz/ubuntu hardy main Close Software Sources and when prompted, choose to reload the repositories. A number of software updates related to Compiz

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Convert bin/cue into ISOInstallationsudo apt-get install bchunk Usage As the name implies, a BIN/CUE CD image has two files. BIN being a binary of the raw CD data, and CUE being an ASCII file of CD layout.General usage:bchunk image.bin image.cue basenameFor example:bchunk myimage.bin myimage.cue myimageWhere basename(myimage) is myimage.iso of the produced file.

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The computer fails to mount a device with the following error:Cannot mount volume.Unable to mount the volume 'yourdevicenamehere'.Detailsmount_point cannot contain the following characters: newline, G_DIR_SEPARATOR (usually /)This can be from incorrectly setting the mount point by right clicking the drive and choosing Properties then the Drive tab and finally expanding the section for Settings,

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Recover images off a corrupt/damaged memory card. The first step to do is to install a software package named “testdisk”. sudo apt-get install testdisk Or of course use synaptic to search for "testdisk" and install it. The next step is to make an image of your memory card, this is achieved using the ‘dd’ command which comes by default with most distributions, the command you will have to

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Do more with Gnome Do.I just discovered this launcher a few days ago and was instantly impressed after viewing the demonstration video available via the homepage. It provides some of the most powerful features of a launcher I have ever seen with massive potential for speeding up *real* productivity in ways you won't have considered.First you need to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list filesudo gedit /

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I just stumbled across this excellent post at The Linux and Unix Menagerie which lists a brilliant little script to add a thesaurus command to your shell, this just perfectly rounds off my recent discovery of the dictionary word lookup commands!This script is very small, in fact surprisingly so. Just be careful copying it into your text editor as the formatting isn't 100% and needs some tweaking,

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This is a command reference that I have been using for several months now (check your plug-ins if you can't see the image above) that I got off Amazon and it has really earned its keep. using 'man' in the terminal is an excellent source off information if you already know the command but sometimes you just don't know it or even know the facility existed. Don't worry about the "Covers Fedora Linux

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Install Clamav with either Synaptic or apt-get/aptitude.To update the definitions use:sudo freshclamscanning files is as simple then as calling clamscan with the -r or --recursive flag and a path, if the path is omitted then it will scan at the current path:clamscan -r /home/subbassor clamscan -rIf you would rather only see infected files then use the -i or --infected flag:clamscan -ri /home/

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Exiftran is a command line utility to transform digital image jpeg images. It can do lossless rotations like jpegtran, but unlike jpegtran it cares about the EXIF data: It can rotate images automatically by checking the exif orientation tag, it updates the exif informaton if needed (image dimension, orientation), it also rotates the exif thumbnail. It can process multiple images at once.exiftran

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Assuming the remote machine has SSH successfully installed and working then it is a simple case:rsync -v -u -a --delete --rsh=ssh --stats username@192.168.0.100:/home/username/remotefile.txt This will copy files from /home/username/remotefile.txt on the machine at 192.168.0.100to copy files to that same machine then the command syntax is as follows:rsync -v -u -a --delete --rsh=ssh --stats

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I use two torrent clients almost every day, Transmission on my own box with a gnome desktop, and for a long time now rTorrent in a shell via SSH to a spare machine I have use of on a separate connection. Setting up rTorrent on an Ubuntu machine is what I am going to discuss here.First step is to install the program, open a terminal and enter:sudo apt-get install rtorrentOr use Synaptic and search

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This article is taken from http://www.thelinuxblog.com/automated-scanning-with-the-shell/ as I need to scan several hundred photographs very soon. Thanks to Owen for correcting my link, I had linked to the wrong page.I recently needed to scan a lot of images on my desktop PC. Unfortunately I am not the owner of an automatic document feed printer, and if I were it wouldn’t have helped this time

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I just had to move a bunch of files out of individual sub-folders into the parent folder, time consuming to do that 50 or so times so a quick check of the "find" command and the solution is here:find . -iname '*.avi' -exec mv {} /home/subbass \;Command breakdown looks like this:find .find "here"-iname '*.avi'case insensitive name match on *.avi-exec mv execute the move command on

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One of the nicer features of Linux is the ability to use Secure Shell (SSH) for encrypted remote access. Using SSH, you can control a remote computer without having physical access to the machine. The traffic generated by SSH is encrypted, and assuming you configure SSH correctly, quite secure as well. Here’s how to install the OpenSSH Server software with a basic security configuration on Ubuntu

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I got asked to look at one my parents PC's a couple days ago as it had 'locked up'. Upon investigation it hadn't locked up but the motherboard had fatally broken with the PS2 and USB ports left lifeless. I was able to SSH into it and the machine was just fine.I wasn't able to easily get any data off the HD while in the case so popped it out and took it home, plugged it into another of my own

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This information is taken from the Ubuntu Documentation (here) and any copyright remains with them. This is here for my own use.Playing Restricted Formats in Ubuntu. Follow these steps to play most common multimedia formats, including MP3, DVD, Flash, Quicktime, WMA and WMV, including both standalone files and content embedded in web pages. Using the GUI (Synaptic) Go to Applications → Add/

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Ok, so you you have taken a bunch of photos with your new camera and what do you know, some of them are half decent. I use this after I have copied photo's I want to print or photo's that I am sending to flickr or deviant art to a seperate folder as it really adds a finishing touch, I copy them to a seperate location so I know exactly which ones I am printing/uploading and don't omit any.Now you

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So you have just completed a download and it is in multiple zip files, rather than unpack them in the gui one at a time try this.Open a terminal and 'cd' to the folder containing the zips, then enter this command: for FILE in *.zip; do unzip -jo $FILE; doneI would suggest having the zip files in a separate folder to anything else to avoid confusion over the files that get unpacked.

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