Gnome uses Nautilus as it’s file manager and ultimately the desktop manager. And Ubuntu uses Gnome. I like a clean desktop. But every time I mount a drive, a new icon is added to my desktop. This just will not do. It seems that on at least one of my installations recently I was able to disable them by checking a box somewhere. For the life of me though I can not retrace my steps. Some Googling turned up this which did just what I was looking for, but my memory still fails me.
The latest Ubuntu 8.04 just shipped with Firefox 3 beta. It has disabled many of my beloved plugins. Completely by accident I ran across a workaround for broken firebug and thought this was a workable solution. Other than the time involved in modifying all my plugins and reinstalling them in all of my firefox profiles.
Then when viewing the download page for a favorite plugin I learned that I could just enter
A little over 2 weeks ago I brought you Growl for Linux. I still think it’s pretty slick.
For those that know I’m a command line junkie but has to co-exist in a desktop world I have managed to get my favorite irc client to report highlights to the desktop using Mumbles.
To make this all possible grab mumbles.pl and place it into your .irssi/scripts folder. Then symlink it in .irssi/scripts/autorun. Edit mumbles.pl to contain the machines you want to notify.
It’s handy, fast, and convienient to you mysql on the command line.
Lately, what I’ve been using it most for is to back up and restore
databases. I don’t do it often enough to have the commands committed to
memory, but everytime I need it I go searching for it again. Rather
than trying to find my previous search results again I’ll post them here
with a summary.
About Jon Molesa: aka - rjmolesa aka - dElite aka - The Computer Deconfuser:
Jon has been making his living on the web now for about 4 years. He left a well paying job in Corporate America to pursue the "American Dream". Since then he hasn't ever looked back and doesn't regret a thing about his decision. Jon has wanted to own his own company since he was a little boy. He writes code in C#, Visual Basic, Action Script, PHP, SQL, and some Bash scripting. He enjoys working from home or where ever he may be. He has many interest as you'll find out. His hope is that you discover something worth while here and return often. Registered users can comment on my posts.