Under Gnome, you can install alltray :
sudo aptitude install alltray
Then, whenever you want to launch an application minizable in tray area, you start your app with :
alltray thunderbird
(it’s an example)
Minimize all your applications
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Installing missing network driver under Windows Vista under Ubuntu Virtual Box
cd ~/install_files wget http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/utilities/V4.51.zip unzip V4.51.zip -d driver mkisofs -o driver.iso -R -J driver
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Documentation API at your fingertips
The best ever seen interface when you are looking for API. Currently manage a huge list of different languages : HTML, JAVASCRIPT, RUBY ON RAILS, J2EE, C++, PHP, SYMFONY, …
VMWare Tools under Ubuntu Linux
A very complete explanation about installing this usefull VMWare Tools inside VMWare Player.
As other sites have demonstrated, it is possible to create a VMware disk image using free tools and install a full-fledged virtual operating system using the free VMware Player. However, VMware Player does not provide VMware Tools, a set of programs that considerably improve VMware performance.
The following procedure shows how to extract and install the VMware Tools image from the VMware Workstation “tarball” (.tar.gz
1. Download the latest “Archived Version” of VMware Workstation in “.tar.gz” format at http://www.vmware.com/download/ws/. You do not need to be registered nor have a VMware Workstation license key to download this version.
Example:
wget http://download3.vmware.com/software/wkst/VMware-workstation-5.5.0-18463.tar.gz2. Locate and extract the windows.iso VMware Tools image from the tarball.
Locate the windows.iso file (example):
$ tar ztvf VMware-workstation-5.5.0-18463.tar.gz | grep windows.iso
vmware-distrib/lib/isoimages/windows.isoExtract the windows.iso file (example):
$ tar zxvf VMware-workstation-5.5.0-18463.tar.gz vmware-distrib/lib/isoimages/windows.iso3. Mount the windows.iso file as a loopback file system, and either share the loopback file system with Samba, or copy the VMware Tools files to a location accessible by your guest system.
$ mkdir /tmp/vmware_tools
# mount -o loop vmware-distrib/lib/isoimages/windows.iso /tmp/vmware_tools
4. In your guest system, run setup.exe from the VMware Tools directory.
file). In this example, my guest system is Windows XP Professional, and my host system is Fedora Core 4.
IRB completion
Fon : extend your wifi with La Fontenna
Mail reçu hier, commande passée aujourd’hui, réception sous 3 semaines.
Cher Fonero,
Dans les semaines qui viennent, nous allons lancer La
Fontenna, notre nouvelle antenne semi-directionnelle qui
porte votre signal WiFi FON jusqu’à 5 fois plus loin, qui
augmente la couverture de la Communauté FON et qui
améliore votre expérience WiFi.En tant qu’un de nos plus fidèles Foneros, nous
souhaitons vous remercier en vous proposant une Fontenna
GRATUITE.Il vous suffit de vous rendre sur la Boutique FON, de saisir
le code promotionnel suivant, et de commander votre Fontenna
GRATUITE (taxes et frais de ports couverts par FON).Code promotionnel : XXXXX
Pour toute question concernant cette offre n’hésitez
surtout pas à nous contacter ici.Bon surf avec FON !
Votre équipe FON
(édit: photo de la fontenna)
Symfony with Xampp
Si vous rencontrez un souci de page blanche (page vide, rien à l’écran) lorsque vous testez votre sandbox Symfony toute fraîche, la solution est ici :
Affichage d’une page blanche
Si lorsque vous appelez la page index.php du dosser web de votre sandbox, vous obtenez comme réponse une page blanche, faîtes la manip suivante :
- Rendez-vous dans www\sf_sandbox\apps\frontend\config
- Editez le fichier settings.yml
- Dans prod .settings, rajoutez la ligne : strip_comments: off
- Enregistrez, quittez et faîtes symfony clear-cache dans la console
La page blanche devrait maintenant laisser place à une belle page de félicitations !
Install InstantClient on Ubuntu
There are many tutorials, but I want to complete with some tricks I just found :
- in your .bashrc, just add at the end :
# Oracle instant client
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/sinclair/Products/instantclient_10_2 - in your untargzed directory of ruby-oci8 installation, create a script file with :
#!/bin/bash
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/sinclair/Products/instantclient_10_2
ruby setup.rb configure
make
make install - launch this script with sudo command
Smbfs / Cifs share on Synology NAS and Ubuntu
If you get some issue with mounting shares with your NAS from your Ubuntu OS, consider this :
With SMBFS : this solution is unsupported, you have to use CIFS. For example, in your fstab :
//192.168.1.250/public /media/NAS cifs iocharset=utf8,user=diskstation_username,password=diskstation_password,rw,uid=ubuntu_username,gid=ubuntu_username 0 0
With CIFS : if you can mount your share directory, but listing returns always an empty list, there is the solution.
I found another workaround in a ds101 mailing list : you can disable “unix extensions” in the ds106’s samba server. To achieve this, you need to add the folowing line in the [global] section of /usr/syno/etc/smb.conf :
Code: unix extensions=no Then, restart samba :
DiskStation> /usr/syno/etc/rc.d/S80samba.sh restartsource : http://www.synology.com/enu/forum/viewtopic.php?=&p=6244
Ubuntu post installation
Must have package that should be installed by default (if you use Nautilus) :
- nautilus-image-converter
And another file manager (IMHO better than Nautilus) :
- thunar : for example, you can with a simple right click send files or even directory to thunderbird (strictly impossible with Nautilus), you can launch a term in the current directory, you can paste into the folder trackbar, etc.
How to replace definitely Nautilus by Thunar ? 2 solutions :