Articles from May 2008



AcetoneISO: Great tool for ISO, CD/DVD, images, etc

From the web site: “AcetoneISO2, is a feature-rich and complete software application to manage CD/DVD images. Thanks to powerful open source tools such as fuseiso, AcetoneISO2 will let You mount typical proprietary images formats of the Windows world such as ISO BIN NRG MDF IMG and do plenty of other things. Everything will be done [...]

Make older add-ons work with Firefox 3.0

Want to use the latest and greatest version of Firefox 3 (RC1 at the time of writing), but you have many extensions that will not load anymore ? Here is a trick to disable extension checking. However, once you do the change described, you’re on your own if something crashes. Although the setting is simple [...]

Terminator: Terminals are back !

Terminator is an attempt to maximise useful space on a given desktop for terminals. Great for those who live in ssh sessions and thus terminals. Well worth the try for it. Still in development, so may (read: will likely) have bugs.

Ubuntu Cheat Sheet

With Ubuntu 8.04 now released, a wise author published an updated version of his cheat sheet for Ubuntu 8.04, which are commands, of course. How can you call using a mouse cheating ? Command lines are way more cool. Anyway. The whole page can be found on FossWire here. I discovered some new commands there [...]

Other Ubuntu Tweaks

I found few more Ubuntu tweaks that may be very useful. I was looking to edit the menu options under the Places top menu. I found the trick here: . This page also contains many more useful informations for Ubuntu. It was written for a specific setup, but may solve other problems.

Playing Restricted Formats under Ubuntu 8.04

I found this about enabling restricted formats for media files under Ubuntu 8.04: Follow these steps to play most common multimedia formats, including MP3, DVD, Flash, Quicktime, WMA and WMV, including both standalone files and content embedded in web pages. Ubuntu 8.04 Synaptic Go to Applications → Add/Remove… Set Show: to All available applications Search [...]

My own setup of Ubuntu Hardy Heron on my laptop

This is an evolving series of notes on setting up Linux Ubuntu 8.04 on my own Laptop. The setup should not be started at the booting of the CD, but once the live Linux is actually loaded. In /etc/X11/xorg.conf, the following is needed (replacement): Section “Device” Identifier “Configured Video Device” Driver “intel” (instead of “vesa”, [...]