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Monday, November 2, 2009

Ultimate Edition HOW TOs

Are you new to Ultimate Edition? Do you need a little guidance with the installation, setup or configuration of some application or feature? Experiencing a problem with some part of your Ultimate Edition installation?
Come visit the Ultimate Edition Forums and check out our HOW TOs section. Lots of good information from the creator of Ultimate Edition, Thee Mahn, the Administrators and Moderators of the forum, and from Users such as yourself.
Just click the following Link - http://forumubuntusoftware.info/viewforum.php?f=7 and explore the HOW TOs - you will find lots of information covering most issues and questions regarding Ultimate Edition.

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HOW TO configure FireFox

Hello everyone.

This HOW TO will help you configure the FireFox browser. BTW- I would suggest you NOT install the newest FireFox Upgrade at this time. Sometimes the newest version is a little "Buggy" until the users have had a chance to report the shortcomings and the corrections to be included in the normal update cycle.

Here is a step by step HOW TO for the configuration of FireFox.
All you have to do is follow the screen shots and make the selections shown. You might want to make some changes - such as the location to which the Downloads are saved, or your Home Page, etc.. These screen shots cover the most common configuration options, so get busy and configure FireFox to your liking!

By the way, a few of my favorite Add-Ons for FireFox are:

NoScript - this Add-On allows YOU to control which sites are allowed to execute Scripts in your Browser! See http://noscript.net/ for more information on this excellent utility.

Adblock Plus - Blocks Popup adds! See http://adblockplus.org/en/ for more about this utility.

XMarks - Synchronize all your Bookmarks, and even your "Saved Passwords" to all computers running Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari (Mac OS). See http://www.xmarks.com/ for more information.

DownThemAll - An excellent Download Manager capable of multiple simultaneous Downloads! See http://www.downthemall.net/

Good luck to you ALL with the Guide.

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HOW TO protect against deleting files.

What is safe-rm?

Safe-rm is a safety tool intended to prevent the accidental deletion of important files by replacing /usr/bin/rm with a wrapper, which checks the given arguments against a configurable blacklist of files and directories that should never be removed.

Users who attempt to delete one of these protected files or directories will not be able to do so and will be shown a warning message instead - for example:

$ rm -rf /usr
Skipping /usr

(Protected paths can be set both at the site and user levels.)

Recovering important files you deleted by mistake can be quite hard. Protect yourself today by installing safe-rm and reduce the likelihood that you will need to contact a data recovery service!

Installation is simple and easy:

1: Download the package safe-rm-0.8.tar.gz from the following link:
http://code.google.com/p/safe-rm/downloads/list

2: Use the command which rm to determine the current location of the original rm command:
which rm
/usr/bin/rm

3: As you can see, this returned the path to the rm command as:
/usr/bin/rm

4: Now we need to un-archive this package with the following commands:
cd /usr/home/texasmike/Downloads (or the directory where safe-rm-0.8.tar.gz is saved)
tar -xvpf safe-rm-0.8.tar.gz

This will create the Directory safe-rm-0.8 within the current directory, and extract the files into that directory.

5: Copy/move the /usr/bin/rm original file to an alternate name for backup purposes.
sudo mv /usr/bin/rm /usr/bin/rm-original

6: Now copy/move the new safe-rm to the /usr/bin/ directory and rename to rm :
sudo mv /home/texasmike/Downloads/safe-rm-0.8/safe-rm /usr/bin/rm
(Use the appropriate path for the location of the extracted safe-rm file)

You will now be using the new safe-rm package when removing/deleting files by simply typing the command rm filename.

Once you have installed safe-rm on your system (look in the safe-rm-0.8 directory for the INSTALL file), you will need to fill the system-wide or user-specific blacklists with the paths that you'd like to protect against accidental deletion.

The system-wide blacklist lives in /etc/safe-rm.conf and you should probably add
paths like these:

/
/etc
/usr
/usr/lib
/var

The user-specific blacklist lives in ~/.safe-rm and could include things like:

/home/username/documents
/home/username/documents/*
/home/username/.mozilla

This will keep you safe when deleting files and/or folders, knowing you can not make an error and cause damage to the operating system.

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HOW TO compile the kernel

Download the latest source code of the kernel can be downloaded here vanilla.
http://kernel.org/

cd /usr/src

sudo apt-get install linux-source-$(uname -r)

cd linux-source-$(uname -r)

Now Step 1: configuration

Well there's all sorts of tools but if you are already on the console then the end
Configure Mac can do but then answer the many questions and all sorts of tools
Have a good visual tool based on terminal configuration ncurses package should then be installed to work with ... You can check installed libncurses5 ... I think that's the name of the package:
"make menuconfig"

You can use the other already made changes and add it goes like this:
Or it is located in / proc / config.gz but it ubuntu So that in / boot
Then copy it to the place we're in.

sudo cp /boot/config-$(uname -r) .config

Every time I records the uname-r kernel version this number.

Now we run:

sudo make menuconfig

Down can load our file configoration. Config

Now you can make changes to what starred Mkomfl into the kernel source code
What is selected in kernel module M Mkomfl
And whatever Mkomfl not marked at all.

Step 0.5

Paste the patch's
patch's kernel with the extension of pfile.patch infect code like this:
Spread 'should be in compiling the library or elsewhere;

sudo patch -p1 <>


Bz2 extension instance

bzcat file.patch.bz2 | patch -p1

There are all sorts of tools that whoever deals with it regularly saving time should recognise some commands.
For instance you could deploy the bzip file with another command, then you can use that allows
All these operations into one command.

Do not forget to check Distribute Jim appropriate kernel version which infect them ...
Otherwise Hkimfol can be detained in the middle with all sorts of strange error messages ...
If anyone knows how to turn off this option will continue despite the mistakes Hkimfol ignoring several versions tell me.

Step 2 - Update Makefile file

Yes it has to Ubuntu and any distributions. Ubuntu has a package called Linux-restricted-module
She has invented its own version number ... To screen card drivers and all those working Snkmfl new kernel without having to compile this package again (only to change her name and number version of the kernel we want to suppose that does not exist reservoirs) date in November 2008 can open the file Makefile and add sub-version is the number The next version after version 2.6.20-22 kernel Suppose
So 22 is the sub version of this. Must write the sub version of the kernel for Komfl Linux-restricted-module. Line where it says EXTRAVERSION =
Then EXTRAVERSION = 22 for example.
Example when it is necessary:
Suppose I installed the 2.6.27 kernel and it does not exist and reservoirs of ubuntu configuration file located at the Boot and kernel 2.6.16-22. Restricted Mkomfl module for this kernel
So he also works for 2.6.27 to get him the number 22 comes after the kernel version number of the previous value of extraversion

Cleaning of make ...
Well you make not just doing the usual way because it's Ubuntu idea is to create a Debian kernel package
Setup Manager automatically installs like any software package in ubuntu.
The idea is to create a distribution that matches the installation package will be installed automatically with the Package Manager.
To create the installation package of the kernel this way Ubuntu should download the package kernel-package.
She brings the tool that does make the road creates the possibility to create an installation package of creating kernel.

Well I wrote this whole story comes down to rows:

sudo apt-get install kernel-package

Tools in question:

sudo make-kpkg clean

Step 4 - Hkimfol

Summarize it this way:

sudo make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-SomeStringsHere kernel-image kernel-headers

It's a library off .. / DEB packages for the version you install both a click
If you already terminal then to the end:
It saves just edit the grub and add the link

sudo dpgk -i linux-image-???-SomeStringHere.deb


Good luck to you.



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Ultimate Edition 2.3 Gamers has been released

Ultimate Edition 2.3 Gamers has the following games pre-installed:

Play on Linux included in this distro, which allows playing of windows games in a nearly seamless manner. Many additional Linux games available though Ultamatix tool also included in the distro. It uses the Ultimate Edition 2.4 theme pack, but is Jaunty based.

3D chess
Airstrike
Aisleriot Solitaire
Barrage
Blackjack
Boswars
Brutal Chess
BzFlag
Brutal Chess
Chess
Dream Chess
Five or more
Foo Billiard
Four-in-a-row
Freecell
Gbrainy
Glest
Gnometris
Gridwars
Hearts
Lango
Kslotski
Majongg
Mines
Nexuiz
Nibbles
Nimuh
Open Arena
Play On Linux
PokerTH
Robots
SameGnome
Sauerbraten
Snoballz
Suduku
Super Tux 2
Tali
Tetravex
Tremulous
Vetris
Warsow

Release Name: Ultimate Edition 2.3 Gamers
Architecture: x86 (32bit)
Code base: Ultimate Edition 2.2 (Jaunty) upgraded
File size: 3.8 GB (4,049,158,144 bytes)
MD5SUM: dfed949027ff6c1702f3736e8ad2f2b6
Download: Torrent, MAIN, University of Maryland, Unixheads, Linuxfreedom, Germany, United Kingdom, Ultimate-Network, Australia Bigpond users.

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