Posts with tag: ubuntu
Our
campus help page on installing the VPN on Linux
describes a fantastically complicated multistep process that begins with downloading some
Cisco tar ball
. I've found a much simpler way on Ubuntu using software from the standard repositories.
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I need to run an old version of Ubuntu Linux on my new server to support some otherwise obsolete software. It should have been easy but my ignorance made it take a few days of intermittent head banging. Here are few notes for my future self.
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To enable access to the CCS PIC18F4550 development board over USB I created a file named /etc/udev/rules.d/myUSB.rules containing:
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I don't want to have to type gb.cs.unc.edu when I'm at home. gb
should be sufficient. Adding search domains is harder than it should
be. I finally got it to work by
editing
/etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf
and adding the
line:
prepend domain-search "cs.unc.edu";
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They dropped spidermonkey from Ubuntu with the Lucid release. This broke my jslint script.
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For testing on our
UOW
project I needed two virtual machines each running Ubuntu and nginx to be able to talk to one another and the outside world without interfering with the server already running on port 80 on my machine.
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I've started using Lightning for my calendar and I really like it except for the stupid balloon tips that pop up and get stuck every time my mouse passes over the Thunderbird window, even when it is below another window. I turned them off with Edit->Preferences->Advanced Tab->Config Editor... and setting browser.chrome.toolbar_tips to false. Much better now.
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Outfox
is a
Firefox
extension that allows in-page JavaScript to access local platform services and devices such as text-to-speech synthesis, sound playback and game controllers. You can read all about it at its
Google Code page
and discuss it in its
Google Group
.
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For the Tar Heel Reader project I needed to convert very simple multi-page WordPress posts into PowerPoint slide shows. I chose the circuitous route of making an OpenOffice Impress show by bashing XML and then converting it to PowerPoint. I manually created a prototype slide show with a title page and a single book page in Impress and saved it in their native
.odp
format. These files are simply zip archives containing
several XML documents
and the images. Why they didn't include the sounds, I don't understand. The important file is
content.xml
. Examining it in Firefox revealed the bits I'd have to change on the title page and for each page of the book. I found several useful hints in a
Linux Journal article by Collin Park
. I used the
PHP DOM module
to read in the prototype, update it for the current book (retrieved with the WordPress
get_post
function), and write it out along with the images. Zipping this result up produces a new Impress presentation for the book.
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I recently upgraded my D800 to Ubuntu Hardy. Things seem to be working fine. Looking through the packages available I saw that I could get sensors-applet to monitor internal temperature sensors. This showed that my GPU was running near 75 degrees C.The nvidia-settings tool showed I was running at Performance Level 2 and appeared to be stuck there. I searched a bit and found other people looking for the same info and got a few hints. After some fooling around I found the following commands would cool things off. They
may
reduce performance but I don't need it.
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