Ubuntu
NDISwrapper
NDISwrapper is a free software driver wrapper that enables the use of Microsoft Windows drivers for wireless network devices.
Download the windows driver wich contains the .inf file
Install with ndiswrapper -i drivername.inf
check the device id with lsusb or lspci -n
Now execute with ndiswrapper -a deviceid driver
ndiswrapper -a 0bda:8197 net8187b
check the installed drivers
ndiswrapper -l
Write the configuration for modprobe
ndiswrapper -m
And use the module
modprobe ndiswrapper
Compiz
To enable compiz install the Nvidia drivers and install CompizConfig Settings Manager
sudo apt-get install simple-ccsm
Now navigate to system > preferences > Appereance And go to the Visual effects tab. Choose custum there
On Kubuntu change the default windows manager
System Settings -> Default Applications -> Windows manager
| Desktop Effects | Keyboard Shortcuts |
|---|---|
| Rotate Cube Manually | Ctrl + Alt + Left Mouse Button |
| Expo | Super + E (toggle) |
| Rotate Cube | Mousewheel on Desktop |
| Film Effect | Ctrl + Alt + Down Arrow |
| Scale Windows | Alt + Shift + Up Arrow |
| Ring Switcher | Super + Tab - overrides Shift Switcher |
Super key is the windows key :-)
First install smbfs
apt-get install smbfs
Then create a folder inside of the /media directory to mount the share on or choose you're own directory
sudo mkdir /media/Storage
Create a credentials file in /root so that you can save your password and have it protected by the root account:
sudo gedit /root/.cifscredentials
Add this to the file
username=Guest password=
sudo vi /etc/fstab Add the following line
//192.168.0.10/SHARENAME /media/Storage cifs auto,iocharset=utf8,uid=USER,gid=users,credentials=/root/.cifscredentials,file_mode=0775,dir_mode=0775 0 0
To check if the file works
sudo mount -a
And you should see you're drives on the desktop
Ik you get error when you shut down the pc CIFS VFS: server not responding then you have to unmount first. Do this with the following
ln -s /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh /etc/rc0.d/K15umountnfs.sh ln -s /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh /etc/rc6.d/K15umountnfs.sh
Citrix Ica client
Download the Linux citrix ica client from Citrix
http://citrix.com/English/SS/downloads/details.asp?downloadID=3323&productID=-1
Install the 32bits libraries if youŕe working on a 64bits platform
apt-get install ia32-libs
Install the Open-motif libraries
apt-get install libmotif3
Unpack the package and execute the installation script
./setupwfc
Find the plugin directory of firefox. Probably is /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/ otherwise use
find / -name plugins | grep -i "netscape\|firefox\|mozilla"
Create a symlink to the citrix ica library
ln –s /usr/lib/ICAClient/npica.so npica.so
If you open a connection to your citrix server. The browser will ask you if you want to open or save the session. Browse to the ica client
/usr/lib/ICAClient/wfica
and tell it to use it for all applications.
When you get a ssl error "you have not chosen to thrust....." Then copy the certificate in this location.
/usr/lib/ICAClient/keystore/cacerts/
For 64Bits OS
Install Needed 32-bit Open Motif libraries to /usr/lib32
Setup a temporary environment
mkdir -p ~/tmp/Citrix cd ~/tmp/Citrix
Download a recent i386 libmotif3 .deb package to the above folder
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/o/openmotif/libmotif3_2.2.3-1.4_i386.deb
Use dpkg to extract the package
dpkg -x libmotif3*i386.deb libmotif
Copy the libraries to /usr/lib32
sudo cp libmotif/usr/lib/*.so.* /usr/lib32/ sudo cp -r libmotif/usr/lib/X11/bindings /usr/lib32/X11/
Make DVD
To make a video DVD you can burn you're image on the dvd. If you just have the VIDEO_TS files then the easiest way is to convert these into a iso.
mkisofs -dvd-video -o ~/moviename.iso /path/to/the/VIDEO_TS
/path/to/the/VIDEO_TS path is for example /moviename not /moviename/VIDEO_TS