GNOME Screensaver Settings
The Configure button is definitely missing in gnome-screensaver. To customize the xscreensaver-modules, you can use xFX Screensaver Settings.
DMS4Pro
Firmware: sksapps.com (Latest is 0.41)
WiFi on bootup with guessnet
Install the guessnet package. This will install the guessnet-ifupdown helper tool. Now edit your /etc/network/interfaces file and add the following lines: This will first try to connect to the CompanyWLAN network and if this is not found, try the WLANatHOME. If everything fails, it will connect to any open Access Point.
incron – Jobs by file activity
incron allows you to run jobs when the filesystem changes. There is a nice tutorial at Linux.com.
BIOS Update on the Acer Aspire One
To update the BIOS without Windows, install UNetBootIn and use it to put FreeDOS on a flash drive. Now extract the e.g. v.3305.zip to it and reboot the machine. Press F12 in the right moment and select your USB flash drive from the list. Press ENTER when you see the boot: prompt, then launch the… Read More: BIOS Update on the Acer Aspire One »
WiFi on the Acer Aspire One
Chipset: Atheros AR2425 Change Regdomain The WiFi card comes set to regdom 0x65 (World/ETSI C) which limits the channels to 1..11. (iw list shows channels 12..14 as disabled.) In Germany, there are also channels 12 and 13 which are unusable this way. But there’s the tool ath_info which can read and write the EEPROM on… Read More: WiFi on the Acer Aspire One »
ASCII-Art
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: ASCII-Art »
BTG
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:
Mono + WinForms
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.
UMTS via Bluetooth
To use UMTS Internet via a bluetooth mobile phone, install the packages gnome-ppp and ppp. There’s a nice manual at UbuntuUsers.