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*

I have been using Matlab at work for some time now.

However only know I am starting to do GUIs (aka, Graphical User Interfaces). You can start using a kane, i.e., use guide from Matlab to assist you designing your GUI. But there will come a time when you'll need more.

In this blog I have found a good way to start a GUI from square one and this gentlemen provides a good example.


Have fun guiing :p

More on Ubuntu 9.04 - If you have an ATI card

.... then you are in troubles :(

This post from Ubuntu Forums was referenced to me and summons up the problems that surround ATI drivers and the new and likeable Jaunty release from Ubuntu.

Fitting Toolbox for Matlab

Matlab has a fitting toolbox of its own, but it is payed.



Here you can find a very simple, practical and FUNCTIONAL replacement :)

Enemy Territory - To Do's for Ubuntu

My favourite site to download ET stuff :) It has the executables, the patches and some hints and tips :)


Plus you should download etpatch 2.60b and follow the instructions :)

In Ubuntu there are a couple of things that you might have to do.

• If you don't have sound when launching the game, do:

echo "et.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss

• If PB kicks you "by game violation integrity" then go to $INSTALATION_PATH_FOR_ET/pb/ and run pbweb.x86. Then go to your $HOME and do rm -fr .etwolf/pb (to clean previous pb files). Recreate it (mkdir .etwolf/pb) and copy your files from $INSTALATION_PATH_FOR_ET/pb/ to that directory. Then run pbweb.x86 again there.

• Some ATI cards have some issues with Quake games. If you get flashes when running ET, then you have to disable compiz before running the game. Do metacity --replace & before running ET and after it, do compiz --replace &. I don't know how NVIDIA cards behave regarding to this.

You can always patch these things together in a small script, like:

#!bin/bash
# Bugz in ET:

# solve flashes
metacity --replace &

# solve sounds
sudo echo "et.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss

# run et
et

# recover graphics
compiz --replace &