Technical notes, and other ideas.
You can get the free updates here, install as a regular package.
http://free.avg.com/download-update-7#tba1
You also need to run the following commands to get the update to work:
sudo chmod 775 /opt/grisoft/avg7/bin/avgupdate
cd /opt/grisoft/avg7/var/
sudo chmod 777 run
sudo chmod 777 update/log
I also needed to manage groups and add everyone to the AVG group, logout and login again to pickup the new virus defintion files.
1. Mix the following in a sauce pan & simmer (covered)
- Soy sauce 50 ml
- White wine 195 ml
- Molasses 1 Tbsp
- Brown sugar 3 Tbsp
- Sake 1 Tbsp
- Salt 1 tsp
- Black pepper 1tsp (20 grinds)
- Ground ginger 1/4 tsp
- Garlic 1/2 clove
- Boulion (smidgen) 1tsp
2. Cut 2 onions like moon 1" wide
3. Add onion to sauce cook 15 mins. until tender and almost brown colored
4. Add sliced beef, and simmer for 5 mins. until cooked
create table temp1 as select field1, field2 from table1
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Time::Local;
print &daysFromNow('20','NOV','08');
exit 0;
# timegm returns seconds from 1970
# its format is (0,0,0,day 1..31,month 0..11,year)
sub daysFromNow
{
my $date2checkDD = $_[ 0 ];
my $date2checkMMM = $_[ 1 ];
my $date2checkYY = $_[ 2 ];
my $check_day = $date2checkDD;
my $check_month;
if ( $date2checkMMM eq 'JAN' ) { $check_month = 0; }
elsif ( $date2checkMMM eq 'FEB' ) { $check_month = 1; }
elsif ( $date2checkMMM eq 'MAR' ) { $check_month = 2; }
elsif ( $date2checkMMM eq 'APR' ) { $check_month = 3; }
elsif ( $date2checkMMM eq 'MAY' ) { $check_month = 4; }
elsif ( $date2checkMMM eq 'JUN' ) { $check_month = 5; }
elsif ( $date2checkMMM eq 'JUL' ) { $check_month = 6; }
elsif ( $date2checkMMM eq 'AUG' ) { $check_month = 7; }
elsif ( $date2checkMMM eq 'SEP' ) { $check_month = 8; }
elsif ( $date2checkMMM eq 'OCT' ) { $check_month = 9; }
elsif ( $date2checkMMM eq 'NOV' ) { $check_month = 10; }
elsif ( $date2checkMMM eq 'DEC' ) { $check_month = 11; }
my $check_year = "20$date2checkYY";
my ( $sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst ) = localtime( time );
$time_1=timegm(0,0,0,$mday,$mon,$year);
$time_2=timegm(0,0,0,$check_day,$check_month,$check_year);
$seconds = $time_2 - $time_1;
$days = $seconds / 86400; # 60*60*24 = 86400
return $days;
}
Update your cache:
apt-get update
Get a list of all packages available, make sure to
apt-cache pkgnames > readme.txt
Install the following:
sudo apt-get install apt-show-versions
This allows you to show all versions installed:
apt-show-versions | sort > readme.txt
A couple of switches are available too:
-u (print only upgradeable packages)
There are more switches available, use apt-show-versions --help for more information.
Completely remove a package
apt-get --purge remove
Use this daemon to monitor logon usage and timeout the user. For example:
# Format: TIMES:TTYS:USERS:GROUPS:MAXIDLE:MAXSESS:MAXDAY:WARN
Al:*:joseph:*:*:30:*:5
30 minutes of session usage with 5 minutes of warning
This is started, you can monitor if it exists by
ps -A | grep -i timeoutd
The configuration file is:
/etc/timeouts
Trying Ubuntu-Tweak on laptop, to hopefully customize some system settings. Suspend does not work, trying to remove option.
Package: ubuntu-tweak.deb
Refer: ubuntu-tweak
Workstation:
net statistics workstation | more
Server:
net statistics server | more
Seeing Network Drives / Get Samba Working
For the Desktop it looks like only the workgroup was added to get the network drive to work.
Step 1: SMBNetFS is a Linux/FreeBSD filesystem that allow you to use samba/microsoft network in the same manner as the network neighborhood in Microsoft Windows. (Refer: ubuntuforums) Run the following command:
sudo apt-get smbnetfs
Step 2: Change you work group:
sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf
Scroll down until you find the Global Settings section and look for WORKGROUP, change it to your workgroup, save and reboot for changes to take effect.
Step 3: User the following command to add a user to samba:
sudo smbpassd -a username
Get a list of all shares for that host name, it means samba is working but nautilus is not interpreting the output as it should. HOSTNAME = host name or ip address.
smbclient --list=HOSTNAME
Playback Codecs and other goodies
Step 1: Install fonts and various codecs by add/remove programs, searching for "Ubuntu Restricted Extras"
DVD Playback
How to install DVD playback for Ubuntu 8.10
Step 1: Get libdvdread3 package
sudo apt-get install libdvdread3
Step 2: Run setup
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh
Microsoft Fonts
Refer: Installing libdvdcss2Installing Microsoft Truetype fonts on Ubuntu
Step 1: You can install the MS core fonts by installing the msttcorefonts package. To do this, enable the "Universe" component of the repositories. This is done by default in Feisty. After you do that, use the following command from the command line:
sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
This will give you the core fonts, but if there are other TrueType fonts that you want installed, it is as easy as copying the font files to the ~/.fonts/ directory.
Step 2: After installing new fonts, you will have to log out and log in again to be able to see and use the new fonts. If you want to avoid this, you can regenerate the fonts cache by issuing the following command:
sudo fc-cache -fv
Other Tweaks