Technical notes, and other ideas.
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
Make sure to cook the skin side up first, and use indirect heat for cooking. Takes about 15-20 minutes to cook.
Refer: www.tipandtrick.net
To fix the Shared Network (NAT) Internet no connection or not working issue, the resolution is to manually assign the IP address for the DNS Server for the guest operating system to 192.168.131.254, the virtual gateway IP address used by Virtual PC. To make the change (in guest operating system), open Network Connections folder (in Windows Vista, access via Network and Sharing Center), and right click Local Area Connection network icon to select its Properties. Then double click on Internet Protocl (TCP/IP) under General tab or Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) under Networking (for Windows Vista) tab.
Workstation:
net statistics workstation | more
Server:
net statistics server | more
Quick Conversion Command
find . -name "*" -type f -exec dos2unix {} \;Sample Script
#!/bin/sh
# MAKE SURE TO ALWAYS SAVE THIS FILE AS UNIX FORMAT.</code>
# Date: Monday, November 17, 2008 8:30 AM
# Author: Maurice Ruckman
#
# Description: Scan scripts directory looking for CR/LF which indicates
# a script was not saved in UNIX format. This would cause the script
# to fail.
grep -l -r $'\r\n' /devl/scripts > scan_for_crlf.output.txt
if [ -s scan_for_crlf.output.txt ]; then
echo "FAILURE CR/LF DETECTED IN SCRIPTS FOLDER"
echo "Found CR/LF when scanning scripts folder" | mailx -s "FAILURE FAILURE FAILURE CR/LF DETECTED IN SCRIPTS FOLDER" mruckman@hollandamerica.com
else
echo "ALL OKAY"
echo "All scripts passed test scan." | mailx -s "Scripts Folder Passed Scan" mruckman@hollandamerica.com
fifind "/home/jboss1/workspace/HAL" -type f -name "*.java" > list.txtWe can easily convert the code with dos2unix
and find the problem code with something like this:
grep -l -r $'\r\n' /home/jboss1/workspace/HALor just convert everything by scripting it, here's a start
find "/home/jboss1/workspace/HAL" -type f -name "*.java"Try installing FileZilla instead.
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/aliases
Replace
alias net-pf-10 ipv6
with
alias net-pf-10 off
and reboot. After that, 'ifconfig' should no longer show any scary looking hex-notated IP addresses.
Update: It did not help FTP speed. Change rolled back...