Nov 21
DBdesigner is a tool to design models and database graphically with a nice feature that can draw the database schema from an existing database (reverse engineering.
There is no deb and the install may be a bit tricky due to depndencies to old libs and missing links.
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Tagged with: dbdesigner • guide • Intrepid • mysql • ubuntu
Feb 15
Here’s a short guide to help you make and set up a search plugin for firefox and Internet Explorer 7 (a search engine of your site to add in the search engine field near the adress bar of your browser), with auto discovery and link to install it easily.
It’s based on opensearch specifications and is really simple to implement and install.
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Tagged with: firefox • guide • IE • plugin • searchplugin
Nov 30
Phosphor is a nice screensaver (at least, I love it) that scrolls a text on the screen in a old school 80’s style. On Ubuntu 7.10, it comes with xscreensaver-data-extra from universe repository.
I wrote a bash script to generate the text choosing a random fortunes from a folder ~/fortunes where I save the fortunes in a text file (the script doesn’t depends from fortune app) :
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Tagged with: bash • config • guide • linux • screensaver
Nov 21
I’ve found a post on ubuntu-fr forums about tilda with true transparency, wow 
. This point me to this article with a link to the patch and a deb package. I tested the package which worked fine on gusty, but update manager always wanted to upgrade it.
So I took the patch and use the (almost) same apt-build method that I used for the mac menu, and I build a tilda package with a superior version number (the trick is to add a changelog section to deian/changelog).
here is the package : tilda true transparency
here also is the patch I’ve used : tilda true transparency dpatch (note that it is only for use with an apt-build method or a deb build method)
Tagged with: applications • guide • install • terminal • ubuntu
Here’s a new howto explaining the steps to compile, install and enable the gnome-globalmenu-0.7 series from trunk on your desktop.
The popular hack to gtk and applet that imitates the Mac menu isnt’t maintained by its original creator AdQ. 
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