Flash Player 10 for Ubuntu 64 bit

Recently I had to install the Flash Player 10 on Ubuntu. As I have a 64 bit system, I had no choice as to use the alpha release of the 64-bit Flash Player 10 of Adobe. You can find it at the Adobe Flash Player 10 page.
Have fun!

Ubuntu – Annoying Mouse Keys – Numpad „not working“

From time to time, on my machine the numpad is not working anymore. Instead, the keys move the mouse cursor around. This completely bugs me!

Here is two solutions:
1. The inconvenient method to turn this off is via: System->Preferences->Keyboard-> Mouse Keys -> Turn „Pointer can be controlled using the keypad“ checkbox off

2. The cool and easy way is the shortcut:
ctrl+shift+num

Have fun!

SVN tunneling over SSH – The client side

Here is how to let a svn client connect to a svn server on a non-standard port.

Fire up an editor and edit the file ~/.subversion/config.
(On a windows machine with TortoiseSVN go to TortoiseSVN settings. There is a button that opens the file.)

Find the section
### Section for configuring tunnel agents.
[tunnels]
and insert a statement like
otherportssh = $otherportssh /usr/bin/ssh "-p 4321".

This setting can now be used in a svn connection string like:
svn+otherportssh://username@host/path and it will connect to the port 4321.

See also:
The SVN redbook – Server Configuration – Tunneling over SSH

Have fun!

Ubuntu 8.10 and RTL8187B

I struggled around one month with a USB WIFI dongle (RTL8187B chipset) and finally got it to work.

lsusb returned
0bda:8189 Realtek Semiconductor Corp RTL8187B
which seems to have some problems.

I found the solution on the Linux Wireless – Download Website and can now use my new dongle…finally.

iftab gone on (x)ubuntu 7.10 – how to assign persistent names to network devices

It seems like /etc/iftab is gone on (x)ubuntu 7.10.
In fact, it is… but the mapping is now handled by udev.

Update: /etc/iftab/ is missing on (x)ubuntu 8.04, 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10 as well.

So if you want to assign persistent names to devices, just fire up an editor with the file

-$ sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules net.rules

and you will see something like this:

Change the entries of the appropriate macs to something you like. I changed the name of my wired lan (eth0 above)  to lan1 and my wireless lan(eth1 above) to wlan1 as I like to start counting with one.

(x) ubuntu 7.10 – Setting up KeePassX 0.22

Hi folks,

I just managed to install KeyPassX on XUbuntu 7.10 and maybe this short guide helps you.

Please note that I take no responsibility for anything even though these steps worked perfectly for me.

Here we go:

1. download packages:

~$ wget http://keepassx.sourceforge.net/download/qt4_4.1.3-2_i386.deb
~$ wget http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/keepassx/KeePassX-0.2.2.deb

2. install the packages

~$ sudo dpkg -i KeePassX-0.2.2.deb
~$ sudo dpkg -i qt4_4.1.3-2_i386.deb

3. to prevent an errormessage about a missing libpng.so.3 install libpng3

~$ sudo aptitude install libpng3

As KeePassX is now available via the package management system enter:

~$ sudo apt-get install keepassx

and KeePassX is installed via apt-get.

Next step. run KeePass

~$ keepass

Et voilà:

I advise you to make backups regulary and to pick a strong master-password.

Good luck