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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.

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.

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.

Calm In The Brainstorm

Kristopher Ives — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:48:59 +0000

Ubuntu Brainstorm idea reviewers have been dropping like flies the last few days. The idea is basically they are not participating and don’t want to add to an imaginary army of idea reviewers.

Do you like Ubuntu? It doesn’t take much. I’m notoriously horrible at reviewing ideas, but I’ve turned this into an opportunity to schedule time to look at one page of ideas on lunch time.

Sam Ported Simple Animations to Compiz 0.9!

Kristopher Ives — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:41:23 +0000

Sam ported the Simple Animations plug-in to the new version of Compiz (in C++), so I’m checking it out and going to see if anything is in my version that is worth porting. I only slightly modified it to slide entirely off the screen for a minimize animation and took away some blending operation hooks I didn’t want.

Error sending mail with Evolution and SURBL blacklist

Kristopher Ives — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:26:44 +0000

If you’re getting an error about not being able to send mail through Evolution because of a URL being in the SURBL blacklist, then you may waste your time as I did looking for your domain on that list in attempt to understand what is happening. Chances are your domain has and never will be on that blacklist.

The problem, for me, was that I was authenticating my incoming mail, but not my outgoing mail. I fixed the settings in the Accounts area and everything is working fine again.

Linux ePoc headset update

Kristopher Ives — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 03:16:43 +0000

I had a short email discussion with the folks from ePoc, making the headset I blogged about a bit ago. Their SDK is available for beta on Linux, so finally I can start the real work – and put their SDK to a test.

This is pretty good timing too because 0.9 is released and packaged, since this is not compatible with the old C code.

The developer headset is $500 while the consumer one is $300.

More soon…