I’m aware that Xen or KVM are much more used and recommended to create and mange virtual machines on a server, but for some reasons I needed to use Virtualbox. Here is a short note on how to install virtualbox on ubuntu, and how-to use it without GUI (graphical interface) to create and manage your VM’s (Virtual Machines).
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Tmux, like screen, allows to open serveral tty in the same terminal window. It has plenty of cool features and a much more readble configuration syntax than screen.
Tmux is really flexible on how you handle windows, attach or dettach different windows in different sessions is not a problem.
Tmux also have a interactive command interface where you can use the same commands as in $HOME/.tmux.conf file.
It is also easily scriptable and have multiple paste buffers.
simple as :
gst-launch-0.10 pulsesrc device=alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor ! audioconvert ! lame bitrate=256 mode=stereo ! filesink location=input.mp3
The device name (alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo for me) may vary. You can use the command : pactl list to list all pulseaudio connections, grab the name for “Destination #0″. Note that you need to add a .monitor extension when you call it with gst-launch
I like the messages UI of empathy but still prefer the flexibility of pidgin. So, I used this tutorial to install pidgin webkit plugin with tiny modifications that make it even easier.
This plugin make pidgin able to use adium styles (not all will work though).
Here is how I proceeded :
Assuming you can’t configure your apache server to use hg fast cgi script, or you don’t have apache, here is another solution :
using hg –serve with nginx as proxy for authentication
Ok, new year, new decade and a new desktop.
New ? not exactly. It takes most of my prebious desktop features and ressources with some changes and evolutions.
I’m trying to give you most of the details and ressources (orignals and my mods) bellow, in case you need to ask for something that missing, feel free to comments.
Happy new year to all 
I’ve just got a brand new HP Probook 5310m. It’s a really cute and efficient piece of hardware and almost everything worked out of the box after installing an ubuntu karmic 9.10.
Grsync is a simple frontend to rsync tool. It comes with many rsync options but nothing about ssh.
I’ve found the solution in this thread. It’s pretty easy and obvious once one knows.
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Here is my second eee desktop setup for november.
GTK Theme is devART Autumn 09 edition metacity comes from Sugar suite.
I made a few modifications to gtkrc, I’ll try to update this post with a diff between original and mine.
Conkyrc is the same as last time.
The dock is cairo-dock with a custom theme (prefer the packages from cairo-dock repositories than the one from ubuntu repositories).
The clock is a cairo-dock detached desklet.
I change colors of the wallpaper, original is here
Update : as promised, here is the diff between original gtkrc file and my modified one :
I discovered yesterday, after reading this article, a bios option to overclock my eee pc processor.
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