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Ubuntu Wallpapers to Celebrate 9.10

Edd Turtle — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:09:30 +0000

Here are a few wallpapers I made to celebrate the release of Karmic Koala tomorrow. Feel free to take them, change them or distribute them as you wish.

Blue Mystery

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Spook

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Fly

1280×800 · 1440×900 · 2560×1024

Green Goo Glow

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Google Chrome on Ubuntu

Edd Turtle — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:17:45 +0000

I downloaded version 4.0 of Google Chrome for Ubuntu a few days ago and found it brilliant. It’s available in 32bit and 64bit and best of all everything I tried worked, Flash, Chrome themes, downloads, fonts, extensions… The list is endless. It doesn’t use wine either which means that it looks a whole lot better.

Now I suppose it should be mentioned that this version of Chrome is “unstable” and maybe full of bugs, but I personally didn’t notice any problems so I’m continuing to use it.

Available for download here (32bit): http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=unstable_i386_deb

Available for download here (64bit): http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=unstable_amd64_deb

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Useless Linux “Tips”

Edd Turtle — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:38:42 +0000

Here is a good list of six gnome-terminal commands which you really wont need and you probably won’t ever use them unless out of curiosity (like I did). But sure tell me if you do use them and why in the comments at the bottom of the page.

1. Watching Star-Wars

No, no, no don’t get me wrong there’s nothing wrong with watching Star-Wars but when you can watch a text based version of Episode VI IV New Hope from the terminal it gets a little ridiculous (but it is quite clever).

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

2. A Terminal Fire

This is the least warming thing I can think of, if you’re seriously looking at getting warm then you might as well hug your processor for all it’s worth.

sudo apt-get install libaa-bin
aafire

3. E-mail

This is where I completely drop myself in it, I wrote an article a little while ago which implied that this was useful. I now see the error of my ways, it is quite simply sending an e-mail through the Terminal. To see my article and how to do it go to: http://www.turtleblog.co.uk/2009/04/send-e-mail-from-terminal-using-gmail/

4. Disable X Restart

Why would anyone want to disable the actually useful Ctrl+Alt+Backspace key combination to restart X in Gnome? If you do want to this visit: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-disable-ctrlaltbackspace-from-restarting-x-in-gnome.html

5. Twitter

Okay so tell me this, who would regularly update their twitter status via their Terminal? Well with this code you know can! But you wouldn’t want to.

curl -u user:password -d status=”Your status message” http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

6. Yes

Here’s a big one, in the terminal type ‘yes’ and it will continuously repeat the letter y until you press Ctrl+C. Does anyone know its purpose? If so please a comment below.

yes

Mount & Unmount with Simple Script

Edd Turtle — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:19:26 +0000

Ubuntu’s File Manager, Nautilus, has the option of using custom made scripts to carry out specific functions. Examples of what you can so with these custom made scripts are functions like making an image your desktop background, or setting a file to read-only. Today we’ll be looking at how to mount and unmount an iso image in gnome.

You’ll need to download two files, mount.sh and unmount.sh

They’ll need the apply the correct permissions to them:

sudo chmod +x /home/yourusername/mount.sh
sudo chmod +x /home/yourusername/unmount.sh

Move them both to the Nautilus scripts folder

sudo mv /home/yourusername/mount.sh ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/
sudo mv /home/yourusername/unmount.sh ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/

And you’re ready to go. To mount an iso image right click on it and under the scripts menu there should be mount.sh and unmount.sh, click on mount.sh.

NOTE: I’ve just found that this only works with ISO images in your home folder

NOTE: This tip was found on Ubuntu Forums

The Ultimate in File Synchronisation

Edd Turtle — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:00:08 +0000

Dropbox is the ultimate in file synchronisation over the internet. It is a small running, multi-platform program which keeps a folder between multiple computers the same so that you can access your work from which ever computer you’re in front.

I personally use it all the time so that all my website work is kept up to date on my different computers. It’s also very handy keeping a current version of your work between your desktop your laptop.

To Download Dropbox go to: http://www.getdropbox.com/

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Send e-mails from the Linux Terminal using Google Mail

Edd Turtle — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:44:57 +0000

This is just one of those things where you never know when you might need it, add it to your collection. Once setup it’s quite simple and quick to send an e-mail using the the Gnome-Terminal (or equivalent) in Linux.

So to begin, first we’re going to open the Terminal and install sendemail:

sudo apt-get install sendemail

We also need to install some other packages it relies on:

sudo apt-get install libio-socket-ssl-perl libnet-ssleay-perl perl

wget http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/sendEmail-v1.55.tar.gz

Unpack it:

tar zxvf sendEmail-v1.55.tar.gz

Copy it to /usr/local/bin/

sudo cp sendEmail-v1.55/sendEmail /usr/local/bin

Apply the correct Permissions:

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/sendEmail

Send the e-mail:

sendEmail -f fromaddress@gmail.com -t toaddress@example.co.uk
-u any title you like -m “this is the message”
-s smtp.gmail.com
-o tls=yes
-xu gmailusername -xp gmailpassword

Note: gmailusername doesn’t include the @gmail.com