Changing your Console Prompt

I've been looking for a while on a good post on how to change it, and finally, a good reference came up.

*This* site is a good guide! Really... ;)

Personalized Icons in Gnome-Do

I really like Gnome-Do, but a thing that bugged me was the inability to create an button with a personalized icon.

However, a ... erm... simple/clever/idiot/what-the-hell workaround to do it is:

1. Remove the item from your dock if its already on there
2. Add your costumized icon to the Menus (right click on Applications Menu, Edit Menus)
   
3. Drag the launcher into the desktop
4. Restart gnome-do
5. Ops, the icon is not set properly! Remove it from docky
6. Drag the icon from the Applications Menu to docky
7. Restart gnome-do
8. Celebrate your brand new personalized icon! :)
   

I followed him but had to improve a bit ;)

Enjoy :

ATI Mobility Radeon X1700 and FPS Games

I have to use my personal laptop with Vista for a while... It happens... and one thing that never worked properly was the graphic card, an ATI’s Mobility Radeon™ X1700 .

To get it working properly with my FPS games (Enemy Territory and Quake Wars), I had to follow this tutorial.

New Punkbuster

After like 100years without updates, last month Punkbuster released an update.

To sort it out with Ubuntu, just do:

cd [et-install-directory]/pb
wget http://www.evenbalance.com/downloads/et/pbsec.htm
wget http://www.evenbalance.com/downloads/et/pbsecsv.htm
chmod u+x pbweb.x86
./pbweb.x86
cp pbweb.x86 ~/.etwolf/pb/
cd ~/.etwolf/pb/
./pbweb.x86

My personal hate...

At work, it is convenient to lock your screen when you are afk for a while. Thank God, for gnome-screensaver with the lock option....

But it just had to be buggy in Ubunty 9.04..... There was no way to unlock the screen... The solution was simple and stupid and took 3 people to find it out ... And some more bugs in gnome-screensaver... :(

Here I found the solution ...

sigh....

Amarok and Jaunty

Yeah... my new laptop at work has Ubuntu 9.04... and it doesn't seem to like a lot of stuff, including the new Amarok 2.0.# (Which is very fancy, btw)

Amarok returned no sound and after googling a bit and trying the solutions in the Ubuntu Forums, I decided to try the previous version of Amarok, 1.4.n. And guess what, it works! :)

So cute, but wroooong!

New lappy at work, 64bits machine and BAM! Ubuntu 9.04 64bit installed here...
First (of many problems to come....)



Skype doesnt allow avatar changing...
Solution here


*sigh*