Archive for August, 2008

Ubuntu Hardy W32Codecs y W64Codecs

Aug 31st

Posted by nseidm1 in DVD

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Quando quiere usar video in Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) nessita usar especial codecs eso puede recibir de Medibuntu. Medibunu tiene el codecs para su OS mirar DVD, WMV y otra typos. Usar nessita poner esto en su /etc/apt/sources.list file; escriba o copia esto en una ventana terminal:

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

Despues nessita los javes:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update

Para DVD nessita libdvdcss2, and para other formattes usa w32codecs. Si su computadora es 64 bit, usa libdvdcss2 and w64codecs. Buen provecho.

Mount Temp Direcories as Devices

Aug 29th

Posted by nseidm1 in flash

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Mounting your temp directories as devices will store the data in your computers ram instead of on the filesystem. This will reduce the writes made to your storage device, which is  benificial for flash based systems. You can achieve this by adding various directories to your fstab (/etc/fstab) configuration file: tmpfs      /var/log/apt    tmpfs        defaults           0    0 tmpfs      /var/log        tmpfs        defaults           0    0 tmpfs      /tmp            tmpfs        defaults           0    0 tmpfs      /var/tmp        tmpfs        defaults           0    0

Intel Atom Powertop System Monitoring Application

Aug 29th

Posted by nseidm1 in Intel

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The Ubuntu repos have Intel powertop software. The software is a quick terminal based interface providing information about your computers power consumption. The software is designed to report on Atom based CPUs. sudo apt-get install powertop Run with: sudo powertop Press “w” when the softwasre tells you and your system will self optimize a bit. It recommends operating your CPUs on dynamic frequency mode, but when on battery power its obviously better to fix the frequency at the lowest value. Also reducing the brightness of your screen will substantially reduce power consumption.

Automatically Switch Your Desktop Wallpaper

Aug 29th

Posted by nseidm1 in app

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I have my desktop wallpaper switching every minute. I think its cool, you may not, but this is how you can do it. Ubuntu repos have the wallpaper-tray app. Install with: sudo apt-get install wallpaper-tray Run on boot with a startup session. Viola.

Gnome Panel frequency Scaling Applet

Aug 29th

Posted by nseidm1 in applet

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By default the Gnome frequency scaling applet does not vary the frequency of the CPU. If your computer supports frequency scaling then the gnome panel applet can server quite useful. The only requirement is to reconfigure the applet to operate with root permissions: sudo dpkg-reconfigure gnome-applets

Avant Window Navigator Development Version 0.3.1 Plus

Aug 24th

Posted by nseidm1 in AWN

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To install the development version, which has the benefit of up to date applets and code, install the appropriate apt source, sudo apt-get update, and sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator-trunk awn-manager-trunk awn-extras-applets-trunk:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/awn-testing/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/awn-testing/ubuntu hardy main
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