tips’n’tricks
Easy and dirty solution for your EOL (end of life) Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail for the Heartbleed / cve-2014-0160?
wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/openssl_1.0.1c-3ubuntu2.7_armhf.deb \ https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/libssl1.0.0_1.0.1c-3ubuntu2.7_armhf.deb \ https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/libssl-dev_1.0.1c-3ubuntu2.7_armhf.deb
Continue reading “Fix heartbleed / cve-2014-0160 on ARM Ubuntu 13.04 with packages from 12.04”
It seems that little bundle of joy called Raspberry Pi computer is perfect for media player and what better choice than XBMC. I have decided to use XBian distribution since it is optimized and tweaked just right. Here are few tips I have stumbled upon during setup:
Cache all filesystems (internet/local) and optimize cache fill rate to make playback as smooth as possible. In your /home/xbian/.xbmc/userdata/advancedsettings.xml you should add/edit following section: Continue reading “Xbian/XBMC on Raspberry Pi tweaks”
First of all you will need certain packages:
apt-get install postfix ssl-cert mailutils libsasl2-modules
Then you need to create /etc/postfix/main.cf Continue reading “Configure Postfix as gmail SMTP relay”
When I switch my old adventure games in ScummVM under Archlinux to fullscreen mouse becomes too sensitve. This is the case with my laptop’s Synaptics touchpad and googling around I’ve found that other people have this issue too. Solution is pretty simple, and I found it on Ubuntu forums. In console window type: Continue reading “Mouse too sensitive in ScummVM linux fullscreen mode”
Since I have other partitions on my HDD that I do not mount in my Archlinux, I did not want to see these drive icons on the desktop. There are few solutions to this, simple one is to disable all of these icons via Settings > Desktop > Icons and uncheck Removable devices, but this will also hide your USB flash disks when you insert them. I just wanted to selectively hide some of my HDD partitions from the desktop. Solution is to create this file, and to reboot your system. Maybe there is some systemctl trick on how to do it without restart but this works just as well. Continue reading “Select and hide unmounted drive icons from Xfce desktop”