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:
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There’s a slightly outdated list at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=185758 DropBox Repository for DropBox.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: apt Repositories »
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: Install Linpus Linux on the Acer Aspire One »
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: Install Ubuntu on the Acer Aspire One »
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: Flashing HTC devices from Linux »
Using an emulated SCSI-adapter in VMware with a very large root disk may give you either or This is because the initrd image is created (maybe only partially) outside the 1024-cylinder boundary accessible by the VMware BIOS. The only stress-free solution is to move /boot to its own partition directly at the beginning of the… Read More: /boot to own partition »
To use USB devices under e.g. VirtualBox in Hardy, edit the file /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh and find the line: Remove the following four comments so that it looks like this: Also add the following line to your /etc/fstab (129 is the group-ID of vboxusers)1 see Stone.log: Now enable the new settings by doing: Finally, edit the file… Read More: Enable USB Sharing »
Edit the file /etc/sudoers and find the line: Now add ,insults to the end of the line so that it reads like that: From now on, sudo will insult anyone who mistypes his password. See for yourself: [sudo] password for foo:Hold it up to the light — not a brain in sight![sudo] password for foo:Speak… Read More: sudo insults on wrong password »
According to Only Ubuntu, to enable auto-mounting of internal drives on bootup, edit the file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi and change the line to this: From now on, internal drives should appear on your Desktop.