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Remove Ubuntu One Nautilus Sync

Kristopher Ives — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:05:37 +0000

I got tired of Ubuntu One alerts advertisements in my nautilus, so I started looking for a way to disable them. I couldn’t find any way to hide the little message that says “Folder not synchronized”. I don’t use Ubuntu One much at all right now, but I was going to keep it around as I saw myself needing it. Since there is no way to disable this, I’ve opted to:

sudo apt-get remove ubuntuone-client

It didn’t have to be this way…

Install Fonts in Ubuntu (Video)

Kristopher Ives — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:53:28 +0000

I’ve been noticing some cool stuff in Ubuntu Maverick and in general have became interested in making high definition videos of Ubuntu running Compiz.

Check out this video of Installing Fonts in Ubuntu Maverick (1080p). It’s in 1920×1080, but YouTube also makes available lower quality video.

Montages and M-80′s

Kristopher Ives — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:59:49 +0000

Got a deadline? Crunch time? Do you have to rise to the challenge?

Do what the movies do, just use a Montage. Put on Eye of the Tiger and grab an M-80 Monster energy drink and watch the project complete itself in transparent milestone fade transisions. Oh, and Journey.

Oh, and Pandora appears to be Montage-Friendly. Starting a station with Eye of the Tiger and they seem to get the idea.

WordPress Auto-Scheduler Doesn’t Work in 3.0

Kristopher Ives — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:08:21 +0000

I just wrote 3 days worth of articles and had them schedule with the Auto-Scheduler plug-in for WordPress 3.0, but it deleted 2 of them and queued another but never posted it. Just a small word of warning out there to anyone who might end up doing the same: Backup your posts!

Launchpad is Slow

Kristopher Ives — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:01:36 +0000

As much as I love Launchpad, they are really slow. Browsing the site is usually painful, and waiting for builds on their systems gets old quick. I popped into #launchpad and asked if it was possible to get into their build cloud, but I was informed that it’s not currently possible and I didn’t get a response on if it would happen in the future. It would be nice if their cloud was easy to jump into, since most everyone has spare processing power they don’t need during some period of the day. Lauchpad is a wordwide community, we could be using our computers at night to build packages for the Australians while we sleep!

Compile Compiz 0.9.0 in Ubuntu

Kristopher Ives — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:56:28 +0000

Sam pointed me to thread that had some build directions that he had put there. I’ve had trouble in the past getting Compiz 0.9 to run, usually with gtk-window-decorator not working. Update: This is really easy now because of Soreau’s script.

Download Desktop.tar.gz which has the script with execute permissions and the source directory
Delete ~/Desktop/compiz-0.9.0 if you have it
Extract Desktop.tar.gz on your desktop (right click works) or in a terminal cd ~/Desktop && tar -xf Desktop.tgz
Open a terminal and type ./install_compiz_090.sh
After it builds it can launch CCSM, which worked for me
Run /opt/compiz/bin/compiz++ (I didn’t need pass --replace or anything)
Thank Soreau

Changes I made to the script:

It uses ~/Desktop/compiz-0.9.0 for source code and that directory is in the tar empty
It installs to /opt/compiz instead of /opt/compiz++

There also seems to be a PPA that falkTX has created. I haven’t tried it yet, but looks promising has been reported to not work and can be added by doing this in a terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:falk-t-j/lucid-latest

Now you’ll either have updated versions of the packages, or renamed compiz packages (haven’t tried it yet)

Update: This got picked up by OMG! Ubuntu

Update: If you followed the guide exactly for the first few hours it was up it didn’t change directory into the build/ directory properly in the install step. Thanks to Eugeny at OMG! Ubuntu! for the tip.

Update: Much of this was replaced with Soreau’s Script, who I welcome as our Compiz overlord.

Turtle Powered

Kristopher Ives — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:49:48 +0000

Three programmers, 15 man hours, and multiple Visual Studio installs later…

TurtlePowered.com

Legit.

Visual Studio C++ 2010 Disclaimer

Kristopher Ives — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:19:09 +0000

WARNING: Installing Visual Studio Express 2010 takes a long time. Before installing ensure that you:

Have absolutely nothing planned for the remainder of your day
Are prepared to restart up to 4 times during the installation process
Allocate additional hours of your life you’ll lose to long re-builds
Accept your proprietary upstream overlords, and love them

Oh, and if you’re using Windows 7:

You’re screwed

pSek Problems

Kristopher Ives — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:14:09 +0000

More problems with the hosting company pSek for another job. For the most part we get a dedicated and all is well, but they are somewhat reckless/negligent. In the past they’ve reverted an entire custom configuration back to vanilla to “fix” everything. Recently they’ve been just reading tickets partially and doing things without understanding the whole picture, like the server going down to rebuild a modules we don’t need while removing ones we do need.

I would hope it’s clear that they will lose a significant amount of revenue once they drive our company away, but my experience with most hosting companies is that they bank on us not being willing to pick up our data and move.

That’s absolutely incorrect.

GNU Shirts at OSCON

Kristopher Ives — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:44:31 +0000

GNU is selling t-shirts at OSCON, which is awesome! However, they are $30, so I don’t think anyone is too interested. Before everyone knew how broke we are (before 2008) we got free T-shirts at OSCON! I want to support them, but either they got ripped off on the cost of printing shirts or they are a bit greedy.