VNC through SSH
May 29, 2008 by tibor · Leave a Comment
INTERNAL: ssh -p10000 -X -L 5900:localhost:5900 user@internalIPaddress
EXTERNAL: ssh -p10000 -X -L 5900:localhost:5900 user@externalIPaddress
vncviewer localhost
Firefox 2 on Hardy cannot install extensions/addons
May 24, 2008 by tibor · Leave a Comment
The error message in the Firefox 2 error console says: “installlocation has no properties”
Solution: Close firefox, delete extensions.rdf file in your firefox path, restart firefox
Fix Flash audio not playing in Ubuntu Hardy under PulseAudio
May 23, 2008 by tibor · Leave a Comment
sudo apt-get install –reinstall pulseaudio libflashsupport
Flyback on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 LTS
May 22, 2008 by tibor · Leave a Comment
Original code homepage: http://code.google.com/p/flyback/
$sudo apt-get install python python-glade2 python-gnome2 python-pysqlite2 python-gconf rsync gnome-schedule
$ mkdir ~/Applications
$ cd ~/Applications
$ wget http://flyback.googlecode.com/files/flyback_0.4.0.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf flyback_0.4.0.tar.gz
$ cd flyback
$ cp GPL.txt ~
$ ln -s flyback.py ~/flyback.py #it expects flyback to be installed to yourhome directory, ie the cron line is looking for the file /home/user/flyback.py
$ python flyback.py
Create a custom application launcher in Gnome Panel to create an icon:
python /home/t/Applications/flyback/flyback.py
Turn off X on Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty server
May 7, 2008 by tibor · Leave a Comment
$ cd /etc/rc2.d/
$ sudo mv S13gdm K87gdm
$ sudo reboot
This way the server stays at the console login prompt instead of booting into X (GDM)
