Ubuntu : Automatically receive files over bluetooth 7

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 files sitting away from your System. This can be fixed. Goto System->Preferences->Bluetooth as shown below. ...

Ubuntu Apache2 : Change default DocumentRoot /var/www 55

By default the document root folder for apache2 in Ubuntu is /var/www. This is where 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 to install LAMP on ubuntu is given here. To do this, we must create ...

Enable sound for 3gp videos in ubuntu using mplayer 4

To play 3gp videos with audio using mplayer in Ubuntu Jaunty, add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/jaunty.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list You need the GPG key for medibuntu packages. Get it the following way. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring sudo apt-get update now install the following packages w32codecs mplayer mencoder amrnb ...

Unable to connect Yahoo messenger in Kopete? 4

[UPDATE] As of now the latest update on jaunty for the kopete package, the problem is fixed in the version 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu2. It seems Yahoo! is changing their protocols for client connection. Heard somewhere this is done to disallow 3rd party clients like pidgin and trillian access yahoo’s messenger service. On my Ubuntu Jaunty, this has ...

Watch web Flash Videos (FLVs) offline.

With most websites you surf these days have some type of video content embedded in them. Be it news sports or entertainment sites. And 9 out of 10 times they are Macromedia Flash Videos (flv). If they are youtube links, there’s a good chance you can download them for future viewing. Otherwise its difficult to ...

Juploadr: Flickr upload tool for Linux and Mac!

Though i had found this tool long time back, it came about pretty handy while using it recently. Get it from jUploadr Just untar the package and run jupload from the installation folder. This launches a simple UI which allows you to drag and drop photos to it. Just add a flickr account and authorize ...

Remote Login to Linux from Windows (Non-VNC) 6

Remote Login to Linux from Windows (Non-VNC)
We can actually login to a *nix based system running X server remotely from Windows XP/Vista based machines. Although there are other ways to achieve remote login using Putty for a SSH login and file transfer over SSH using WinSCP. This particular method allows you to access the entire desktop as a independent session unlike ...

Setting up a SVN 1.4 server using Apache 2.2 on Ubuntu 15

To setup svn 1.4 , we need to compile both apache 2.2 and svn 1.4 from source. This how to has been tested under Ubuntu Dapper and Edgy. sudo apt-get install build-essential libneon25-dev autoconf libtool -y --force-yes Before starting make sure you have removed previous apache2 and subversion installation from your system. To do this: ...

Assorted Linux/Ubuntu Gotchas!! 3

To customise Vi Editor copy /usr/share/vim/vimrc to ~/.vimrc :syntax on for color highlighting :set incsearch for incremental search in vi editor to clear and redraw the screen ^L To get network info netstat -lneap | grep tcp 5900 for vnc 21 for ftp To mount Windows partitions (NTFS) on boot-up, and allow users read and ...