Copy SSH Key to Server in One Line
Here is a simple way to copy your public key from your computer to your server (which can allow password-free login): ssh user@hostname "echo `cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub` >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys" If...
View ArticlePlaying Flash Videos in External Player
I have had a lot of issues with flash videos in the past. I have had some difficulties with it crashing in firefox, and I have had issues with full screen support. There are services that let you...
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Move Window Buttons to Right Side – Ubuntu 10.04
The developers at Canonical decided to move the position of the minimize, maximize, and close buttons in Ubuntu 10.04. For most people like myself this is an unwelcome change. We are used to clicking...
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Ubuntu: Why the Buttons Were Moved in 10.04
When Canonical decided to move the close, minimize, and maximize buttons in 10.04 to the left side of the window, Mark Shuttleworth simply said that something very exciting was going to go on the right...
View ArticlePithos Segmentation Fault Fix
Pithos crashes with a segmentation fault in Ubuntu 64-bit. The build queue is apparently backed up right now, so it may take some time before the patched version is released. To manually fix your...
View ArticleInstall Chromium in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)
Chromium is the open source version of google chrome. Installing Chromium in Ubuntu 10.04 is a very simple and quick process. Just run the following three commands in your terminal...
View ArticleYate Server: Free Google Voice Calling
This post details how to setup yate as a google voice sip server. Please feel free to post any questions you have in the comments section. Installation Use one of the respositories, or install from...
View ArticleMonitoring SSD Life
Smartmon can be used to monitor the wear and tear on a SSD. The Media_Wearout_Indicator monitors the life of the drive, and counts down from 100 to 0, 100 meaning 100% of the drive life is left, and 0...
View ArticleMythtv – 0.26 Bug Fixes
I just upgraded to Mythtv 0.26, and I’ve had some issues with it, so I decided to keep a log of what I had to change. This is mostly for me to reference in the future. MythTranscode Error I normally...
View ArticleNmap – List of Hosts Responding to Ping
I was trying to figure out how to return a list of ips on my network that are responding to ping. Here’s how you do it with grep, and get a list of just ips: sudo nmap -sP 192.168.0.100-199 | grep -o...
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