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November 5, 2009

how to use users-admin remotely on Ubuntu

Lately I had the necessity to create an account and modify another one on an Ubuntu box at work. I've regularly logged on via a ssh -X shell and gave the command sudo users-admin resulting in a "blocked" window ... I mean one on which I wasn't able to unlock the command via an administrative password input.

After a little diggin' on the web I found that the solution is in giving this command:

sudo ck-launch-session users-admin &

which will ask you the administrative password and make the commands on the appearing window

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October 21, 2009

New Apple iMac

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the 27" one, with amazing 16GB of RAM it's kinda dream machine ...

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October 6, 2009

become a Gmail ninja!

via http://www.google.com/mail/help/tips.html

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August 7, 2009

Using Firebug for CSS

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good stuff here!

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August 5, 2009

What the F**K is Social Media

via jbruin.posterous.com

Reading my "posterous" reading-list I've just encountered this slide disamination on Social Media ... kinda worth to be liked and put in evidence on my Posterous and Twitter stream ...

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July 21, 2009

which version of Ubuntu are you running ?

Ever wondered how to know by command line which version of Ubuntu are you running ?
The answer is simple:

kOoLiNuS@linuxbox:$ cat /etc/lsb-release 

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS"

Enjoy your Open Source operating system ;-)

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July 16, 2009

restore grub installation [Fedora, Centos, RHEL & derivates]

Have you ever found yourself with a non-booting GNU/Linux box?
 
If the cause is a corrupted grub installation (by a bad move on kernel upgrade, a Windows update or whatever) all you have to do is simply:
 

  • set the BIOS of your machine to have CD/DVD-rom player as the 1st boot device; 
  • insert the Fedora/CentOS/RHEL media on it and boot the system, 
  • choose {or manually insert}: linux rescue and press return, 
  • a number of messages will be displayed until you will be taken to a working shell and your old system is mounted on /mnt/sysimage path, 
  • give 'chroot /mnt/sysimage' command to "phisically translate" the shell on your original installation 
  • 'cd /boot/grub' 
  • then check where grub results installed if you have different disks on your machine with a grep '#boot' grub.conf 
  • read the output, verify it's correct eventually with the help of an fdisk -l command, 
  • now you are ready to install grub, after you've choosen the device (or partition) where it sould is located give the command grub-install /dev/device-choosen {ie that could be /dev/sda} 
  • now close the shell and reboot, the system should be working correctly now! 
 
Enjoy ;-)

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July 13, 2009

getting Flash workin' into Flock (on Linux)

Do you have Firefox installed and correctly configurated with the Flash plugin ?
 
Have you manually installed Flock on /opt and can't see videos on
Facebook or blogs, animations and such?
Well to "cure" your installation all you have to do, as root user is
give this command:
 
ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/* /opt/flock/plugins/
 
Enjoy !!!

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