MPD - Music Player Daemon, MPC and Sonata

I thought maybe I would be satisfied with Decibel, and I am quite satisfied. But you got to love the idea of MPD! Along side the required MPC, the command line player, you have everything you would ever need from a simple audio-player.
Setting it up was not straight forward. It is not enough to install [...]

update-manager - really necessary?

I installed update-manager on my Debian Lenny today. This installed an update-notifier daemon. I noticed a sudden jump in ram usage.
Top reports of a shared-memory-usage of 8.5 MB,and a total of 11 MB. For a new computer with sufficient resources, this is acceptable. Also on my current laptop ( Dell Latitude 1.8GHz 1MB ram ) [...]

Making gksu and gksudo work

I like the update-manager using Debian. This is default in any *buntu install, so you probably have no problem with this.
My problem occurred last night when I tried to launch the update-manager. True enough, the gksudo app was loaded, but nothing happened. I was asked to type in my password again, and again….
Fix
gksu and gksudo [...]

LXDE - Desktop Environment

I am sold - there is no way I am going back! The LXDE is just amazing!
LXDE is a full desktop environment with OpenBox as window-manager. And believe me - it’s fast! My first run was under Xubuntu 8.04 on a Dell Latitude P4 1.8GHz 1GB ram. It handles Gnome, KDE, Xfce pretty well with [...]

Change Usplash

I had to try - and it worked perfectly! I got tired of the Xubuntu-usplash loader - then I found this:
http://u-fingerprint.sourceforge.net/
Works like a charm - nice to look at too Need to edit your grub file - at your own risk! I installed the startupmanager as a workaround. There I am able to change [...]

Canon LBP2900 setup

This howto sets up my LBP2900. A couple of easy steps - and voila.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardwareSupportComponentsPrinters/CanonPrinters/Canon_LBP_2900
Added:
The ccpd-deamon keeps crashing if the printer is not turned on. I just need to restart the daemon from the command-line for printing to work.
$ sudo /etc/init.d/ccpd start

Extract icon from win-binary

I wanted to use an icon in a windows exe-file. I extractet the ico-file by using a tool called wrestool. It was found in a package, which was easily installed:
sudo apt-get install icoutils
I extracted the ico with this command:

wrestool -x –output=. -t14 file.exe

I could then easily convert the file to whatever, and place the file [...]

Epiphany browser

Gnome’s Epiphany webbrowser uses the Gecko engine - Mozilla’s engine used in Firefox. It is lightweight and actually faster than Firefox.

Skype mic in Ubuntu

After a fresh install of Ubuntu and Skype, my microphone in Skype did not want to cooperate. I could hear myself, but It would not work in Skype. A couple of things one should check.

make sure mic is not muted
System->Preferences->Sound and Sounds-tab - theESD - Enable software sound mixing should be unchecked.

This simple tricks works [...]

Ubuntu IP6V

Turn off every handling of IP6V in Ubuntu for faster internet.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=87798
Simply add the file bad_list in /etc/modprobe.d/ with the line:

alias net-pf-10 off