It’s time to kickstart!

So, here are the facts:

1. Distro: Ubuntu 11.10
2. Kernel: 3.0.0
3. WM: awesome wm; stopped using Gnome3 (gnome-shell), ‘cos it still crashes a lot; btw, awesome wm is blazingly fast and configurable; I consider it to be the best wm for laptops I’ve ever tried; btw2, skype in stacked mode is the best linux skype gui I’ve ever used
4. Terminal: urxvt
5. sh: zsh/oh-my-zsh
6. Editor: still on vim; tried emacs for a while and loved org-mode, but all those Ctrl/Alt shortcuts drive me crazy, especially, when I’m on the ukrainian kbd layout; hate switching
7. Kbd: started using CAPS-LOCK as the primary key for layout switching; that’s awesome and quick
8. Dormitory Linux Box: enchaned htb queue; I love dynamic traffic shaping

And some rotten tomatoes at the end: What I HATE in Linux right now. If anybody knows the solution, please comment! I’ll buy you a beer/juice/chocolate:

• all the programs use various copy-paste methods! It’s fucking hard to copy text from terminal and paste that into browser and vice-versa! How you deal with this?

I guess, that’s enough for the first time

Here are the commands:

Just paste them in your beloved terminal emulator and press enter

Several weeks ago, I desperately needed torrent client, but in that environment, no applications could be installed. It was a great disappointment to find out, that me own rTorrent is down on the server. So I tried to perform mentioned actions again, but with no luck.

Right at that moment, I found out about an AWESOME!!! script, which does everything you need! It just installs

• rTorrent
• ruTorrent
• your favourite web-server
• FTP
• Webmin

It binds everything together, and it just works!

Here’s the MAGIC link to the documentation:
http://forums.rutorrent.org/index.php?topic=608.msg4427
Everything is pretty strait-forward and troubleless.

Hint: run the downloaded script inside screen session. Script, itself, runs several minutes. It configures and compiles everything. So, please, be patient. If you have poor ssh access, it would be much better to reattach to the running screen process, after connection failure or something.

The only thing, I had to modify afterwards, was a web-server’s port, ’cause my ISP blocks port #80.
As I’ve chosen lighttpd, as my webser, I had to modify lighttpd config file
nano /usr/share/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
and set
server.port = 1234

My dream was to have licensed version of Microsoft Windows. In post-soviet countries, it’s really that hard to use one. But with msdnaa my dream came true.

I’ve downloaded client application (<500kb). This one is downloading iso-image of the item, I’ve chosen on microsoft.com. Finally, it downloaded 2,3 Gb Windows 7 Professional Retail x86 iso-file.

Unfortunately, I had no free dvd-r at that moment, and my dvd-drive was in such a horrible state, that it could hardly read any dvd. I don’t even mention it’s ability to write smth :/ But lightscribe works as it should

So, I’ve downloaded Microsoft ISO2USB tool. This one allows users to burn their iso to usb-drive, and install OS from it. Unfortunately, it failed. That one needed some extra libraries, which I couldn’t find.
I found one third-party tool, which did that for me.

I’m rebooting my system… and there it is! Windows 7 installation!
Unfortunately, right after first screen, my setup failed It couldn’t find any drivers for my lapton, so with the message “Insert dvd/choose location of drivers” all my dreams fainted.
I’ve been trying lot’s of solutions. But nothing could help me.
The only outcome, I’ve faced was: several new partitions on hard-drive, no OS at all.

Right at that moment, I’ve found my Ubuntu 10.10 CD. That’s the only non-brain-damaging solution! It installed from the first time. No pop-alerts! Easy as abc! Even after logging into my braid new ubuntu installation, I wasn’t satisfied enough. I had a valid Win7 Pro key! I had no Win7 Pro. That’s ridiculous.

I thought, the only place in internet, where I can find valid iso-image of Win7 can be somewhere in torrents! I’ve logged into one of the most popular torrent sites out here and quickly found Genuine Win 7 Retail.

But there where no Pro. Only Ultimate revisions. Somewhere, I’ve read, that Ultimate installation has all the versions inside: from Starter to Ultimate, except Enterprise. And yes! You just have to remove or modify
/isoimage/sources/ei.cfg file! That definitely cool

I’ve downloaded win 7 ultimate, changed that ei.cfg with the one from the image, which I’ve got from msdnaa. Finally I’ve got working Windows 7 Professional installation image. The only problem was, that I installed Ubuntu, and got too accustomed to it. Moreover, my dvd-drive wasn’t working correctly I’ve downloaded Virtual Box and installed Windows 7 Pro inside it. It completed successfully and passed validation test with the key provided.

Currently, I’m working under ubuntu, and waiting for the moment, when I’ll suddenly kill my system with “rm -rf /” Then, I’ll try installing Win7 once more

Have a nice day

I was disappointed, when in my lovely Ubuntu it did not!
I tried to go back, as I usually did that, and the key didn’t work.

That was irritating for me, so, if you have the same problem, feel free to use the following fix:

1. Type
   about:config
   in address bar.
2. Filter properties by:
   browser.backspace_action
3. Double-click it and set it to
   0

Have a nice day!

• sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
  and add
  options snd-hda-intel model=mobile
• sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/options
  and add
  options snd-hda-intel model=mobile

that’s if your sound isn’t working

*will be updating this page with good stuff for ubuntu/hp6735s laptop

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• I enjoy using Ubuntu!
• I enjoy using Ubuntu 9.10 (cos’ I still haven’t upgraded to 10.04)
• I have hp6735s laptop
• I use ATI proprietary driver
• everything is too smoothed on the screen
• font look like shit
• windows *** works fine

After digging a little I found out that the problem is:

• not with the fonts
• Ubuntu set wrong screen resolution for me: 1280×768
• right screen resolution 1280×800 is not in the list in System > Parameters > Screen
• right screen resolution is not available in ATI Catalyst either

Here’s how I fixed it:

1. run sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf in terminal
2. found something like Section "Monitor" ... Option "PreferredMode" "1280x768"
3. changed 1280×768 to 1280×800
4. everything works fine after reboot!
5. compiz and all 3D effects work nice too!
6. …and hey, it’s the first time I edited xorg.conf by hands!

Enjoy using linux!
That the OS you really need!

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Today, I was really shocked with the abilities of the mplayer!
Here’s a short video of what I’ve done:

So, here’s a list of what I was doing with it (everything is done in tty-conole->[Ctrl]+[Alt]+[F5]):

1. I wondered if I can watch films in console. That’s real! You just have to specify the special output driver. It’s the ASCII-Art driver:
   mplayer -vo aa nameOfYourFile.avi
   You can enjoy colour video in console, just replace aa driver with the Colour ASCII-Art driver caca!
2. I felt it’s not enough! So, I tried to watch my web-cam in console! Obviously, mplayer is able to do it! You just need to specify the tv:// protocol, instead of filename:
   mplayer tv:// -vo caca
3. Here’s the first problem. The output is alright, but that stats information always updates, and the video is blinking:( So, it makes impossible for you to watch your wab-cam normally. I started to investigate the mplayer’s man page:
   man mplayer
   it’s so huge! (read it if you want )
   I quickly found the solution! Here is it: the parameter -really-quiet:
   mplayer tv:// -vo caca -really-quiet
4. But that was not enough! I wish I can watch the web-cam, as I look at mirror! I found the parameter -flip. But it just turns everything upside-down. The real solution for that is the video-filter Mirror! Specify it & enjoy:
   mplayer tv:// -vo caca -vf mirror -really-quiet
5. There’s one more improvement, you can do to your output. You can make it better by specifing the font. The smaller the font – the better’s the output. I usually use Uni1-VGA8:
   setfont Uni1-VGA8

That’s all, folks! Go and watch your favourite videos in console!

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Everything is pretty stright-forward.

1. Go to http://code.google.com/p/linuxgenius/
2. Get the source for wizardpen. I used http://linuxgenius.googlecode.com/files/wizardpen-0.7.0-alpha2.tar.gz
   wget http://linuxgenius.googlecode.com/files/wizardpen-0.7.0-alpha2.tar.gz
3. Unpack.
   tar -xvf wizardpen-0.7.0-alpha2.tar.gz
4. Move into the unpacked dir:
   cd wizardpen-0.7.0-alpha2
5. Configure, make and install:
   sudo ./configure --with-xorg-module-dir=/usr/lib/xorg/modules && make && make install
6. Check for wizardpen.la and wizardpen.so (driver installed correctly):
   ls /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/wizardpen.*
7. Connect your tablet (if not yet connected)
8. Create file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/99-wizardpen.fdi
9. I used the following data inside the file:
   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<!-- This MUST match with the name of your tablet -->
<match key="info.product" contains="UC-LOGIC Tablet WP5540U">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">wizardpen</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.SendCoreEvents" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.TopX" type="string">0</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.TopY" type="string">0</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.TopZ" type="string">40</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_identifier" type="string">stylus</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.BottomX" type="string">32739</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.BottomY" type="string">32745</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.BottomZ" type="string">1024</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.MaxX" type="string">32739</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.MaxY" type="string">32745</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>

* This source code was highlighted with Source Code Highlighter.
10. After all this You should reboot and start using your Genius G-Pen 4500.
11. FIXED: I still have one unsolved problem. The stylus starts working a bit far from the tablet. Can’t resolve this. Under Windows I found quite unique driver, which let me set sensitivity for it. FIX: Add TopZ and BottomZ values to the file
    
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