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Category Archives: linux
Ubuntu: Fix for Picasa missing titlebar on fullscreen.
On Ubuntu you may have noticed that when running Picasa in fullscreen mode and returning you would notice the titlebar will be missing on the picasa. Normally this can be fixed after closing and re-opening picasa again. But there’s a … Continue reading
Ubuntu : Fix for Firefox to download picasa albums
There is a simple guide to install the latest picasa 3.8 (as of this writing) in Ubuntu as shown in this post.. However, I have noticed that, atleast in Ubuntu 11.04, that the “Download to Picasa” option doesnot work under … Continue reading
Ubuntu: VMware and mount.ntfs high cpu usage fix
If we run VMWare player on Ubuntu to run guest OS, and if the virtual machine files are stored in a NTFS partition (like a large External HDD), then chances are that you would notice mount.ntfs taking up almost 100% … Continue reading
Ubuntu : Convert video for Nokia Mobiles in MP4 format
Most Nokia handsets feature symbian s60 platform v9.0 and upwards. Natively they have option to record and play MP4 files with MPEG-4 part 2, which is h.263. Higher end Nokia mobiles like N8 will support mp4 files with MPEG-4 part … Continue reading
Ubuntu 11.04 : Uninstall Gnome3 and revert to Gnome 2.x
Ubuntu 11.10 Update : If you are coming here to revert or remove gnome3 or unity from the latest Ubuntu 11.10, then the original solution in this page (found below) is not for you. To get a gnome classic like(not … Continue reading
Ubuntu : Automatically receive files over bluetooth
In Ubuntu 10.10 maverick meerkat, the default setup of bluetooth would not allow you to automatically receive files over bluetooth. For every file(s) transferred you have to manually accept the request. This gets annoying when you have to send multiple … Continue reading
Ubuntu clive http 404 error solution.
Update: For 11.04′s clive version 2.2.13, the youtube video URLs are throwing the following error. error: no match: `(?-xism:fmt_url_map=(.*?)&)’ and the solution for this is to pick the package from Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric which is of version 2.2.25-2 as of … Continue reading
Remove pen drive folder.exe virus using linux.
Instructions to detect and delete EXE folder viruses. This virus has an extension of .exe corresponding to the folder name in the drive. For example if a folder has subfolder called as exam there will be an equivalent exam.exe existing … Continue reading
Ubuntu Apache2 : Change default DocumentRoot /var/www
By default the document root folder for apache2 in Ubuntu is /var/www. This were you can store your site documents. In order to change the default site location to a different one, /opt/mysite use the following method. A detailed steps … Continue reading
Shell : Remove blank spaces from filenames
Just like I last posted the below script can be used to remove blank spaces from file names. #!/bin/sh find . -name “* *”|while read file do target=`echo “$file”|tr -s ‘ ‘ ‘_’` mv “$file” “$target” done