PUBLIC MARKS from sylvainulg with tag ubuntu

might be handy when plugging the NUC on TV.

10 years ago, I had plans for FututreShell ... this is not that far away...

just in case ...

which is the best laptop to buy for your Linux distro ? ask the guys who packed your distro ;)

Got the issue this lunch. rebuilding alsa with module-assistant was simple and did the trick. I used mplayer -ao oss mod_of_the_week.ogg to validate my sound hardware was still working properly. The issue is most likely in pulseaudio: re-installing it afterwards killed alsa sound again.

The perfect linux for Cyborg Jeff ?

with Precise Pangolin, this is still usefull. More automated than tweaking cpufreq manually.

enlightenment sur la freebox ? marrant ^_^

talking to a canonical developer about gnome3 oddities.

'pdl' for 'Perl Data Language' is available as is in ubuntu repository: "pdl - perl data language: Perl extensions for numerics"

will it enhance the resolution of the images ? It does. Whoohoo! Open-source power ^_^

grub2 doesn't look to find my older partitions (reiserfs). Actually, it doesn't even look to recognize any partition tables standing on the legacy IDE drives, only the SATA disk seems to exist :P

since the upgrade to lucid lynx, my computer throws "cal: option requires an argument -- 'm'" at me when I invoke "cal -m" to specify I'd love to have the week starting on monday. ""Proper" honoring of LC_TIME mixing it with command line options" says the changelog. I spot that those LC_* settings are actually pointing the library towards a data chunk located in /usr/lib/locale/<language setting, e.g. en_DK.utf8>/<subset, e.g. LC_TIME, LC_MONETARY, etc.>

trying to resume use of my Zaurus PDA raised a silly issue: /etc/resolv.conf on the host system is trashed by NetworkManager upon device wake up :P needs some more investigation. later on.

If you ever wondered, things independent from your actual window manager / desktop environment are stored in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/*

sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin, run /usr/lib/notification-daemon/notification-daemon at session start and use e.g. notify-send `xmmsctrl cur` "This is a superfluous notification" -t 2000 to have a notification shown in a bubble from any script you're coding ^_^

I couldn't open style file alphaurl.bst ---line 2 of file ResumeNet_D2.2a.aux : \bibstyle{alphaurl : } I'm skipping whatever remains of this command

* gnome-exe-thumbnailer (5.3 KiB, text/plain) And here's the script itself (public domain, by qaaq on Ubuntu Brainstorm). It doesn't seem to work on most icons. I changed the install instructions a little to re-use the built-in MIME type: ---- sudo apt-get install sharutils icoutils sudo cp gnome-exe-thumbnailer /usr/local/bin sudo chmod a rx /usr/local/bin/gnome-exe-thumbnailer gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/application@x-ms-dos-executable/command --type string "/usr/local/bin/gnome-exe-thumbnailer %i %o" gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/application@x-ms-dos-executable/enable --type boolean true

autre approche

to make sure I can remotely work from my parent's place.

à creuser ... pour ceux qui se demandent ce qui s'est passé avec leurs S20personalFirewallScript sous ubuntu

keep your secrets secret ... ecryptfs

an alternative to skype for video/voip calls ?