Not without a certain pleasure I announce that I got Rapache fixed and working again. Rapache is a graphical user tool to help you configure Apache2. It allows easy creation of virtual name hosts and modules activation without prior knowledge of configuration files. I still have to mess with the packaging thing, and there are certain trade-offs, but anybody interested can finally download a working version. To install it run the following commands sudo apt-get …
23 articles Tag [HOW TO] get the damn thing working
Script to enable disable panels auto hide
You may remember about an old post of mine where I show a little trick to make gnome panel auto-hiding actually usable. I have been pleased, today, to find a script automating the whole thing, so I thought I’d share. The code belongs to a nice page on Patricio Páez‘s website, and all credit goes to him. Once run the script applies the tweaks described in my previous article. If you want to revert your system …
Jamendo direct download with Rhythmbox [HowTo]
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While Rhythmbox allows you to download songs from Jamendo via BitTorrent, that method is horribly broken as there are pretty much no seeders. Here’s a quick tutorial to have Rhythmbox open your browser at Jamendo’s direct download page. Backup JamendoSource.py to be sure to be able to recover eventual breakages: sudo cp /usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/jamendo/JamendoSource.py /usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/jamendo/JamendoSource.backup Open JamendoSource.py with your favorite editor sudo geany /usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/jamendo/JamendoSource.py Find line 299 (or look for “mp32_uri” using your editor search function), …
Debugging AndroidX86 with Adb
If you running Android X86 inside a virtual machine (such as VirtualBox) and would like to use it to debug your apps with ADB but still cannot connect you may find useful to do what follows: Open the terminal inside your emulated device (alt+f1) and type: setprop service.adb.tcp.port 5555 stop adbd start adbd then type: netcfg and note down the provided IP address. then on your development machine type: adb connect <ipaddress>:5555 Works wonders
Slow WPA Wireless with a Broadcom card on Ubuntu 10.10
When your phone connects to the Wifi better than your PC, it makes you think that something is not that ok with your computer. In my case my Macbook with Maverick suffered extremely slow wireless connections when connecting to WPA hotspot. Looking on google just brought to a bunch of pretty esoteric solutions that I just didn’t want to dive in. What did I do ? Well I just downloaded the Natty driver for my …
How to fix HTC Desire HD lag
Htc Desire HD (Android Phone) is probably the best smartphone around, but unfortunately it suffers from an unfixed bug that from time to time, busts the init process to take approximately 80% of the CPU, making the whole experience extremely slow and frustrating. While rebooting can restore the usual speed for a while, the definitive fix is very easy. 1- go to “settings” 2- then “applications” 3-click on “development” 4- then Tick the box that …
Where is the Insert key on a Mac keyboard ?
If you’re unlucky like me and own a MacBook, you won’t have an Insert key on your keyboard. In such case the overwrite mode can be toggled on Apple keyboards by pressing Fn+Return. So at least you’ll know how to deactivate it after having triggered it by accident. (also the Delete is fn+Backspace. How frustrating !)
How to repeat a shell command N times
Last day, I needed to repeat a shell command a arbitrary number of times, and all I found was the suggestion to use the repeat command. Sadly, I haven’t been able to found that command in Ubuntu, but after some research I could luckily find something useful. What follows is a very simple bash implementation of the repeat command. First, open your .bash_aliases file: xdg-open ~/.bash-aliases Second, paste these lines at the bottom of the file …
Google Chrome for Linux
Google just released a preview release of Google Chrome. Not Chromium which is the open source project Chrome is based on, but Google Chrome itself. I’m not copy pasting the install instruction. Find out about the debs and ppas at Ubuntu Blog, and thank the author for the news !
Strip Mono from Ubuntu and prevent it from coming back
I’ve recently heard that a discussion about Ubuntu default media player has taken place at the Karmic UDS. News is that Banshee will likely take the place of Rhythmbox sooner or later (possibly in time for Karmic Koala). I don’t really blame the decision, it should be taken as a big compliment to the Banshee development team. I am equally sure, though, that many people won’t like the choice, because of the many concerns that …
