Archive for May, 2007

How to get Flash working in Opera in Ubuntu

Monday, May 28th, 2007

The process has been hit and trial for me. But this guide definitely works for me. Is quite complicated which makes me think that Opera should have a dedicated section with all the related links and information on their own website. Ubuntu (And Linux) user base is growing and they should help the users as [...]

Better looking Firefox in Ubuntu

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

Here are some command line steps to improve the looks of web control in Gnome Ubuntu:

sudo su
wget http://users.tkk.fi/~otsaloma/art/firefox-form-widgets.tar.gz
tar -xvzf firefox-form-widgets.tar.gz
cp /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/res/forms.css /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/res/forms.css.bak
cat firefox-form-widgets/res/forms-extra.css | sudo tee –append /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/res/forms.css > /dev/null
cp -r firefox-form-widgets/res/form-widgets /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/res
rm -rf firefox-form-widgets

MTR command in Ubuntu Linux

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

MTR
Very usable. Acts as a combination of the ping and traceroute command. Incidentally Ubuntu seems to be missing the traceroute command in default installation. At least it was not installed on mine.

Show Hidden Files in Nautilus in Ubuntu - Linux

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

Control H
Damn. Took me sometime to figure this one out. Helpful when you are playing with .htaccess file.

Kflickr: Uploading images to Flickr from Linux

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

I have tried a couple of applications I found. I even tried using the Firefox extensions. But frankly, Kflickr has been the most efficient way I have seen to upload images to Flickr from Ubuntu.

If you guys have a better idea, suggest!
Checkout: KFlickr