Introduction to Full Circle Magazine
Linux March 29th, 2010
Full Circle is a free, independent, magazine dedicated to the Ubuntu family of Linux operating systems. Each month, it contains helpful how-to articles and reader submitted stories.
Introduction to Full Circle Magazine.
You can download all its issues from here.
Tags: full circle, oss, ubuntu
1- Remove login screen question sound
When the login screen appears, Ubuntu plays a “drum drum” ready sound. It is really annoying when I am in a public place like public library… Let’s image that the whole other people will look at your computer when they here that drum drum sound. It is really awkward huh?
Recently I have a temporary solution to disable that annoying sound, but it should work all Ubuntu version.
Open the terminal, Applications>Accessories>Teminal and run nautilus by the command:
gksudo nautilus
Then locate to /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo Now, just rename the file “dialog-question.ogg” for ex: CUONG-dialog-question.ogg
2- Disable GNOME Login Sound
Go to menu System>Preferences>Startup Applications then just UNCHECK GNOME Login Sound
That’s it!
Tags: gnome, Linux, loginsound, ubuntu
Download Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 1 direct links FPT Vietnam mirror
Linux March 26th, 2010
For beta release, Ubuntu.com didn’t provide down-loaders all local mirrors. So I just list the FPT VN mirror here for you guys who want to download it faster (personally, ~ more than 500KB/s) or just forgot about FPT server.
Note: This is a beta release. Do not install it on production machines. The final stable version will be released on April 29, 2010.
Desktop CD
The desktop CD allows you to try Ubuntu without changing your computer at all, and at your option to install it permanently later. This type of CD is what most people will want to use. You will need at least 256MB of RAM to install from this CD.
There are two images available, each for a different type of computer:
PC (Intel x86) desktop CD
ftp://mirror-fpt-telecom.fpt.net//ubuntu-releases/10.04/ubuntu-10.04-beta1-desktop-i386.iso
For almost all PCs. This includes most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type processors and almost all computers that run Microsoft Windows, as well as newer Apple Macintosh systems based on Intel processors. Choose this if you are at all unsure.
64-bit PC (AMD64) desktop CD
ftp://mirror-fpt-telecom.fpt.net//ubuntu-releases/10.04/ubuntu-10.04-beta1-desktop-amd64.iso
Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2). If you have a non-64-bit processor made by AMD, or if you need full support for 32-bit code, use the Intel x86 images instead.
For other releases (Server vesion…) see:
ftp://mirror-fpt-telecom.fpt.net//ubuntu-releases/10.04
Vietnamese typing for Ubuntu 9.10
Linux February 9th, 2010
Shiretoko Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu Canonical – a world natural heritage site and the Firefox
Life, Linux, Tech November 7th, 2009
Shiretoko Firefox
Today I just recognise there was a Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu Canonical inside my Ubuntu. Wow there were some nice stories about a world natural heritage site and the Firefox web browser.
Discovery about Shiretoko:
http://www.discovershiretoko.org/en/
I have a question, if a famous browser like FF will be named as your home city, or even your name @@, how will you feel at that time?
How to run Opera Mini on Ubuntu
Linux, Tech May 24th, 2009
This is a “copy and paste” post from Source.
I love Opera Mini browser, it is the best way to browse internet on your cellphone. I had found a tutorial which showed how to use Opera Mini on Windows. I tried to run Opera Mini on Ubuntu. It has been a lifesaver. Thanks to the heavy compression done by Opera Mini servers pages load within one second. This makes Opera Mini very useful for those on slow internet connection.When my internet speed dips, say when I am downloading softwares etc I use Opera Mini. I love Opera Mini on Ubuntu.
So here is how you can run Opera Mini on your Ubuntu (or any other Linux distro):
Downloading and installing the software you need:
- go to http://microemu.org/
- download the latest release (you can pick the snapshot as well, doesn’t really matter)
- unzip the archive on your PC
- Download the Opera Mini .jar and .jad files from operamini.com
- Install Java. Go to Applications > Add/ Remove and now type java in the search box. You will find two packages OpenJDK Java Runtime and OpenJDK Java 6 Webstart. Click on them and install them by clicking on Apply Changes. It will take some time as these packages are about 30 MB in size.
Starting and configuring the software:
- Navigate to the folder where you have extracted the microemulator file. Now locate the file ‘microemulator.jar’, right click it and select ‘Open With’ tab now click on the Add button, a new window will pop out clcik on ‘Use a Custom Command’ now paste this thing in it: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/java -jar . Double-click “microemulator.jar” to run it.
- go to “Options > Select device”, click “Add…”, navigate to “microemulator\devices” and select “microemu-device-resizable.jar”
- select the “Resizable device” profile you just added and click “Set as default”
- click the “Resize” button in lower right to set the size you want
- go to “File > Open JAD” and choose the Opera Mini jad you previously downloaded
- “Opera Mini” now appears in the list of apps you can start, click the “Start” button to launch it
Create a Shortcut in Applications Menu
1. Go to System > Preferences > Main Menu
Navigate to Internet submenu and clcik on ‘New Item’. Here fill in the proper details like this:
Type: Application
Name: Opera Mini
Command: This is very important!!!
First copy this in the box:
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/java -jar
Now navigate to the folder where you have extracted the microemulator.jar and right click on it. Select Properties. In the Basic tab you will find location, copy it and then paste it after the above given command in the box like this:
there should be one space between the two commands.
