how is the nautilus thumbnail-filename related with the file it belongs to?
6
May
found it somewhere in ubuntuforums.org: echo -n ‘file:///path/to/file/name.jpg’ | md5sum
Tag Archives: ubuntu
list obsolete and/or locally installed packages in debian/ubuntu
3
May
aptitude has a specific list-category to display those when using the curses-GUI, but I do not like it. fortunately, you can use the search-command from the cli-interface with the appropriate search-pattern: aptitude search “?obsolete” or as a shorthand: aptitude search … Read More »
lightning-plugin for ubuntu’s 64-bit thunderbird in 10.04 [updated]
3
May
http://www.secudb.de/~seuffert/mozilla/ UPDATE: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/releases/1.0b1/contrib/linux-x86_64/
10.04 countdown
12
Apr
restoring a MySQL dump on a freshly installed debian/ubuntu system
9
Apr
to restore a dump from a MySQL database created on a debianish Linux system, just feed the dumped SQL to the command-line mysql client like this: mysql -u root -p < mysql-all-2010-03-28-0515.sql since the whole content of all MySQL databases … Read More »
building “gpsturbo” on ubuntu/karmic
5
Apr
“gpsturbo“ seems to be a potential open-source rival for GSAK that a friend of us suggested (he knows the author in person), so I decided to give it a try. Currently, no Linux-binaries are available, so here are my notes … Read More »
installing Funambol on ubuntu 9.10 x86_64 using MySQL as a backend
13
Feb
NOTE: this posting is still very incomplete!! make sure the 32-bit variants of Java and the corresponding MySQL-connector are installed: sudo aptitude install ia32-sun-java6-bin libmysql-java then, adjust the install.properties to use MySQL: —- ds-server/install.properties.orig 2010-02-13 16:54:13.000000000 +0100 +++ ds-server/install.properties 2010-02-13 … Read More »
install virtualbox in ubuntu
11
Feb
just a copy-paste list: sudo sh -c ‘echo “deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian karmic non-free” >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list’ wget q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O | sudo apt-key add – sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install virtualbox-3.1
find changes in config files (debian/ubuntu)
11
Feb
want to know which files in /etc have been changed on your debian-like Linux system? one part can be done with the package debsums, which compares the md5sums delivered with a debian-package with those of the current files: $ sudo … Read More »
configuring TSM and testing the config is a real PITA…
21
Jan
just to remember how to test if a certain directory and its files are included in the backup using the TSM commandline interface: ./dsmc preview backup -console /path/to/dir/ delete one or more files from your backup (NOTE: the quotes in … Read More »