To create ASCII art or just some colorful things with lots of ANSI color codes, there’s the package aewan – Ascii-art Editor Without A Name. aewan itself saves the files in an own format. But there’s the tool aecat which lets you cat those files – and thus you can also write the output into… Read More »
Homepage: http://btg.berlios.de/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/btg.berlios/ Incoming directory To have a directory scanned for .torrent files and let them be added to BTG, there is this nice bash script from the BTG HowTo: Set Speedlimits based on time of day This script also comes from the BTG HowTo:
Installation manual: mono-project.comForum: UbuntuForums.org The System.Windows.Forms.dll is contained in the mono-winforms2.0-cil package. The file resides in /usr/lib/mono/2.0/. To make it show up in MonoDevelop, you might have to create a file /usr/lib/pkgconfig/windows-forms.pc with the following contents: Afterwards you can add this as a Reference to your project in MonoDevelop.
To use UMTS Internet via a bluetooth mobile phone, install the packages gnome-ppp and ppp. There’s a nice manual at UbuntuUsers.
There’s a slightly outdated list at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=185758 DropBox Repository for DropBox. feisty-commercial Google LaunchPad Projects Aguignard (Sonata, a MPD client) Bazaar Bazaar BETA Blueman blueyed (TV-Browser) c-korn (wine, vlc) Conduit Deluge Gnome Do Gnome Do BETA Gnome Terminator GnuCash Hamster Applet hyperair (Pidgin) james-w (Ubuntu Netbook Remix) mishd (Hotwire, PasswordSafe) mozillateam (Mozilla Alpha) Netbook Remix… Read More »
Model: JMicron JMB38x PCI Express to 1394a OHCI and Memory Card Host Controller Enabling the device The cardreader device seems to be hidden on bootup and you have to enable it by issuing: This didn’t work on the commandline but inside the rc.local, my 16GiB SDcard in the left slot was recognized fine. Multicard-reader driver… Read More »
There exist several manuals on how to install Linpus from a recovery DVD. Basically you just boot the recovery DVD on some PC, select “create rescue usb key” and insert a 2 GiB (or more) usb key. ⚠️ 1 GiB won’t work – the recovery image is slightly larger ⚠️ After the recovery stick has… Read More »
There’s a nice help page at the Ubuntu page. Needed: Missing features: Intrepid Ibex (8.10) Works almost out-of-the-box. You just have to blacklist the ath_pci module to make the WLAN card work. Everything else seems to work fine. You might have to keep the setkeycodes mappings for the popup displays when changing volume or brightness… Read More »
After playing around a bit, my Aspire One (v3114) got bricked after a normal reboot (blank screen, power led and fan on, nothing else). There’s a nice recovery procedure for the BIOS at macles. Somehow an A150L with the v3114 BIOS didn’t let me update it to v3304. The Power-LED was blinking and the LED… Read More »
To flash HTC devices under Linux, there is the HTCFlasher tool. You might be missing the /dev/ttyUSB0 device in recent Ubuntu installations. To fix this, use lsusb and look for the device ID of a Microsoft Corp. Generic PPC Flash device (if in bootloader mode). Now do a or add the following line to your… Read More »