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.

gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible false
gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/computer_icon_visible false
gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/trash_icon_visible false
gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/home_icon_visible false

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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

about.config

into my address bar and

change app.update.incompatible.mode = 1

instead add new entry

extensions.checkCompatibility

set it to

false

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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.

I’m looking forward to this.

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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.

To back a mysql database into a gzipped archive:

mysqldump [database] | gzip > backup.sql.gz

To restore the backup:

gunzip < backup.sql.gz | mysql [database]

Reference: web cheat sheet

Something to remind you what is is to be a man, in case you’ve forgotten.  Thanks, honey for the Monday morning laugh.