Launchers are just desktop icons that when double clicked, will execute a given command. They are so useful in a frenzied desktop environment.
In gnome, you can create one by just clicking the right button of your mouse on a free area on the desktop and then selecting “Create a new Launcher”.
However, this practicity often causes a sense of boredom in some uncommon human beings.

Luckily for them, a launcher is just a common file with some simple characteristics and thus it can be made using any familiar unix editor.

This document describes how to set up TrueCrypt 5.1a on Debian Etch (GNOME). Taken from the TrueCrypt page: "TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password/keyfile(s) or correct encryption keys. Entire file system is encrypted (e.g., file names, folder names, contents of every file, free space, meta data, etc)."

Per esportare tutti i contatti di Evolution, il client di posta Linux piu’ diffuso, basta eseguire il seguente comando e otterrete un file con tutto il vostro addressbook pronto per essere importato in qualsiasi altro programma o tool via web (tipo Gmail):

Formato CSV:

evolution-addressbook-export --format=csv --output=mycontacts.csv

Formato VCARD

evolution-addressbook-export --format=vcf --output=mycontacts.vcf

Synergy has worked well for me over the last couple days, but setting up the connection (although not difficult) required a few steps that I’ve tried to streamline.

The following setup is based on a synergy configuration similar to the following.:


section: screens
desktop:
laptop:
end
section: links
desktop:
right = laptop
laptop:
left = desktop
end


BTW, desktop and laptop are arbitrary names I’ve selected for clarity.

Automatically start the synergy server after logging in to gnome on the “desktop” computer to which the mouse/keyboard is physically connected as follows:

Che ne dite se fosse questo il tema ufficiale della nuova release di Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron prevista per Aprile 2008?

A me piace molto, certo il marrone non e’ il massimo ma per il resto e’ un gran bel cambiamento. Tutte le informazioni e come dare una mano potete trovarle nel wiki ufficiale di Ubuntu.

Questi giorni mi sono divertito a creare qualche tema per il mio AWN, la barra in stile Mac OS X da usare con il vostro Ubuntu e Compiz. Scaricate quelli che vi piacciono di piu’ oppure il pacchetto di temi completo:

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I have evolution 2.12.1 installed on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) along with the evolution-exchange plugin on my home desktop and laptop. For some time now, I’ve been unable to figure out why I can connect to exchange with no problems from my desktop, but not from my laptop. All operations using evolution on my laptop would take several minutes, or sometimes it seemed like everything would grind to a halt, leaving evolution completely unusable. I spent some time last night trying to get to the bottom of things, and stumbled across a thread that helped me make some progress. Thanks to joshmachine’s suggestion to start evolution with the E2K_DEBUG environment variable, something like