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- Overview
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- Includes a 15' cord set.
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- Includes a 15' cord set with plug-end.
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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron)
Ubuntu Hardy Heron, el sucesor de Gutsy Gibbon fue lanzado el 24 of abril del 2008. Por favor ayuden a probar y perfeccionar esta guía.
Esta guía fue iniciada por Chua Wen Kiat (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), Versión en español José Guzmán Tórtola (Guatemala).
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Información sobre Hardy
- Ubuntu 8.04 se lanzó el 24 de abril del 2008 .
- Su nombre código es Hardy Heron y es el sucesor de Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon.
- * Hardy Heron es una versión LTS (Long Term Support o de soporte a largo plazo) cuyo soporte con actualizaciones de seguridad tendrá una duración de cinco años en la edición para servidores y tres años para le version para computadoras de escritorio.
Cómo saber que versión de Ubuntu estás usando
Usar este comando:
lsb_release -a
Cómo saber que versión del Kernel de Ubuntu estás usando
Usar este comando:
uname -r
Nuevas versiones de Ubuntu
- Ubuntu se renueva en ciclos de 6 meses
- Cada nuevo lanzamiento de Ubuntu ocurre en Abril y Octubre
- La próxima versión se espera para el 30 de Octubre del 2008 y será el Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) el cual es Hardy+1.
Acerca de Ubuntu y páginas oficiales en el internet de Ubuntu
Ubuntu 8.04 Guías y Links
- Ubuntu Website Oficial
- Página oficial de Ubuntu
- Forums oficiales de Ubuntu
- Wikipedia: Ubuntu (Linux Distribution)
- Ubuntu Geek incluye Tips,qué hacer,tutoriales y artículos sobre Ubuntu Linux
Capturas de pantalla de Ubuntu
Galería de pantallazos en Ubuntu 8.04
Capturas de pantalla de Kubuntu
[http://www.debianadmin.com/kubuntu-804-hardy-heron-screenshots-tour.html Galería de pantallazos en Ubuntu 8.04
Información importante
Esta sección contiene información importante sobre como usar esta guía.
Usando console / terminal / shell
Los términos console, terminal, y shell se refieren a la misma cosa - una interface de comandos en línea. Puede ser utilizada para controlar el sistema en lugar de usar la interfase gráfica de usuario (GUI). Muchas de las tareas en ésta guía pueden realizarse a través del GUI, pero para muchos usuarios es más sencillo utilizar la línea de comandos.
Para abrir la consola:
Applications --> Accessories --> Terminal
A cualquier comando al que se le antepone la palabra "sudo" se le concede acceso administrativo (o root)para lo cual el sistema pedirá el password del usuario.
Usando "manpages" para mostrar los parámetros de los comandos en linea y ayuda.
La mayoría de los programas y comandos tienen un manual de ayuda llamado "manpages".
La función de un comando y las opciones de un comando en línea pueden mostrarse tecleando en la ventana de comando (ventana de consola) de la siguiente forma :
man <comando>
man apt-get
mostrará las opciones del comando apt-get.
Windows Vista y Ubuntu instalados al mismo tiempo
Es posible tener problemas al tratar de arrancar Windows Vista o Ubuntu (dual-booting) ya que el programa de arranque del Vista trabaja de forma distinta a las versiones anteriores ya que espera que el MBR y el sector de arranque se comporten de distinta manera. EasyBCD es una aplicación gratuita en Windows que permite solucionar este problema de manera segura y rápida.
Manteniendo el sistema al día
- Es importante mantener el sistema al día con los últimos parches y arreglos de seguridad disponibles.
- Asegúrese que los lugares de almacenamiento están activos:
System --> Administration --> Software Sources
- Abrir la consola de comandos en línea:
Applications --> Accessories --> Terminal
- Ejecute la actualización:
sudo apt-get update
(El sistema pedirá la contraseña (password) del ususrio)
- Actualizar los paquetes de la versión instalada actualmente:
sudo apt-get upgrade
- Si desea actualizarse con la última version teclee:
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
- El actualizar a una nueva versión debe hacerse con precaución. Asegúrate que no estás utilizando un sistema que necesita de una versión específica de Ubuntu para funcionar correctamente. Algunas aplicaciones no son compatibles con las nuevas versiones y pueden dejar de funcionar tras una actualización de la distribución. Esto se puede dar si estás utilizando una versión de Ubuntu descargada desde "appliance". These often should only have a distribution upgrade in co-ordination with a complete appliance upgrade.
Instalando paquetes(programas) y librerías
En Ubuntu existen dos formas de instalar paquetes en su sistema.
Usted puede instalar paquetes desde la línea de comandos o con el Gestor de Paquetes Synaptic.
Como Instalar un paquete con Apt (desde la terminal de comandos en linea)
- Apt es el gestor de paquetes de Debian y se usa también en Ubuntu.
- Inicie una terminal de comandos en linea:
Sistema --> Accesorios --> Terminal
- Instale un paquete digitando:
sudo apt-get install nombre_del_paquete
- Para instalar el reproductor de musica Amarok, por ejemplo:
sudo apt-get install amarok
- Desinstale un paquete tecleando:
sudo apt-get remove nombre_del_paquete
- Para desinstalar el reproductor de musica Exaile, por ejemplo:
sudo apt-get remove exaile
- Apt selecciona las dependencias de un programa y automaticamente las instala o las elimina.
Como instalar un paquete con el Gestor de Paquetes Synaptic
- Inicie el Gestor de Paquetes Synaptic:
Sistema --> Administracion --> Gestor de Paquetes Synaptic
- Busque un complemento o un paquete usando el Botón Buscar.
- Marque la casilla(s) del paquete(s) a instalar; el/los paquetes seleccionados entrara(n) a una lista de instalación.
- Presione "Aplicar". Synaptic busca las dependencias e instala el paquete seleccionado así como sus dependencias.
Buscando un paquete/programa
Existen muchas formas de encontrar paquetes en los repositorios.
Encontrar un paquete en Synaptic
- Abra Synaptic:
Sistema --> Administración --> Gestor de Paquetes Synaptic
- Presione el botón Buscar.
Seleccione el mirror mas rapido
- revise [http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-select-fastest-mirror-in-ubuntu.html Como seleccionar el mirror mas rapido.
Encontrar un paquete en la página de Ubuntu
- Vaya a la página de paquetes de ubuntu..
- Busque los paquetes Hardy en:
Encontrar un paquete con Apt
- Abra una terminal de comando en linea:
Aplicaciones --> Accesorios --> Terminal
- Busque por un nombre de paquete en la cache.
sudo apt-cache search <nombre de paquete>
- Ejemplo:
sudo apt-cache search music player
Encontrar un paquete en Aptitude
- Aptitude es una versión con menú de apt. Se trabaja desde una terminal de comando en linea.
Aplicaciones --> Accesorios --> Terminal user> aptitude
- Use la opcion Buscar como en el Gestor de Paquetes Synaptic.
Añadir un programa al menu de Aplicaciones
- Click derecho sobre la barra de menú para editar menú.
- Opcionalmente, desde la terminal de comando en linea:
- Para encontrar la localizacion de la aplicacion en el disco duro:
locate <nombre de la aplicacion>
Tarjetas graficas y displays
Instalación de drivers ATI y nVidia Graphics
Instalar drivers restringidos
Driver nVidia
- Determine que kernel esta usando:
user@localhost:~$ uname -a Linux ubuntu804server 2.6.24-17-server #1 SMP Thu May 1 14:28:06 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
- I have the server kernel, so I need to install the following:
sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-server
You can also install this package from Synaptic Package Manager (which I did.)
- Go to System > Administration > Restricted Drivers Manager and turn on the driver.
- Reboot
- Some users may receive an error screen: "The software source for the packsge nvidia-glx-new is not enabled." This can be overcome by going to System > Administration > Software Sources and ticking all the boxes under the heading "Downloadable from the Internet", click close and then allow Ubuntu to reload the package lists. The NVidia drivers can then be enabled using the method above.
- You can optionally prevent showing NVidia logo on startup by:
sudo nvidia-xconfig --no-logo
Install latest EnvyNG driver (ATI & nVidia)
- Ensures you are always running the latest version of the drivers.
- Read this faq.
- Install the gtk package:
sudo apt-get install envyng-gtk
Install drivers from the repository (ATI & nVidia)
- From Synaptic Package Manager:
System --> Administration --> Hardware Drivers
- Choose your Graphics Card and desired options.
- Reboot.
Open Source rRadeon driver (ATI)
- For those that have older ATi GPU installed
- See these instructions.
RadeonHD driver (ATI only)
- For those that own the latest ATi cards (2xxx and 3xxx generations) and can't have appropriate display with the latest ATi drivers (via EnvyNG) or with the repository driver.
- Make sure that you don't have another ATI driver installed.
- Also see this location for more info.
- Search Synaptic Package Manager for the package:
Fix for Video Playback Problem in Compiz-Fusion
Problem: While running Compiz-Fusion in fullscreen, a blue screen appears instead of special effects (3D cube, expo window viewing, video while moving the window).
Solution: Try this fix.
Note: This fix is not a permanent fix. It makes your CPU render the video, not your graphic card. The video will seem pixelated when re-sized at a higher resolution because the CPU is not able to post-process the video (and taxes your system resources). There seems to be no current fix for this video playback issue. This is a driver problem at the X-Server side.
Configuring multiple monitors with a nVidia graphics card
Install the nVidia graphics control panel:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings
And then run the configuration utility:
gksu nvidia-settings
You should be able to configure all your monitors, set them to seperate resolutions, and change their positioning relative to one another. When you are finished, make sure you click 'Save to X Configuration File'. It is possible that you may have problems with the boundries of monitors; logging off and back on again should resolve this.
How to install multimedia support on Hardy Heron
Installing Codecs
Open a terminal and type :
sudo -s -H
sudo -i
and then enter your user password.
After that :
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
To be upgraded. Please check that you have all repositories enabled in Software sources.
Then these commands :
apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread3
Now you have the most of the codecs needed to play most of multimedia you may own.
Installing DVD Support
If you want to install codecs in i386 and 64 bit check This
At the console, type:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Αnd paste in the end of the file the below:
## Medibuntu - Ubuntu 8.04 "hardy" ## Please report any bug on https://bugs.launchpad.net/medibuntu/ deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free
save the document and then in the terminal type:
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
in order to receive the appropriate key.
Finally, at the terminal, type:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2
I used this method and DVD movies wouldn't play previews or allow me to go to the Main Menu. English DVD's would also play French or Spanish language when set to Auto in Language.
I used this forum page to get my DVD working and it works great! Not just for xubuntu.
I just set up a fresh box, here's what worked well to take care of dvd/cd playback. Run in order
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc libdvdcss2 ubuntu-restricted-extras w32codecs
Thats it.
To add the better totem-xine player as default totem player
sudo apt-get install totem-xine
sudo update-alternatives --config totem
choose 2
edit : the libdvdread3/install-css.sh thing is somewhat outdated, much better to get your libs, codecs and players from medibuntu. In the rare case the current libdvdcss2 doesn't work for your system then that's an option
On Xubuntu, you may experience some glitches with Pulseaudio like no sound at all after upgrading from Gutsy. The reason may be that the Pulseaudio daemon is not started. Take note that the sound server is not started at boot time (to reduce the risk of inter-user audio corruption), but at login time. So, you will have to add an entry to your autostarted applications for Pulseaudio. Here is an example:
:[Desktop Entry]
Installing VLC Media Player
At the console, type:
sudo apt-get install vlc
To remove,
sudo apt-get --purge autoremove vlc
If you encounter sound problems (due to PulseAudio ), type:
sudo apt-get install vlc-plugin-pulse
and choose PulseAudio as output in VLC options.
How to make VLC open when you insert a DVD
Some users may run into problems using Totem to play DVDs. Totem is the default program for DVD-playback in Hardy, and there is no obvious way to change it. A lot of tips that worked in previous versions no longer work. The main problem is that VLC does not register itself as a DVD-capable application. These steps will set VLC media player as your default DVD player.
Create a new directory, if it doesn't already exist, for our custom settings. At the console, type:
mkdir ~/.local/share/applications
Copy the standard VLC settings file. Type:
cp /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/vlc-dvd.desktop
Edit vlc-dvd.desktop. Type:
gedit ~/.local/share/applications/vlc-dvd.desktop
Scroll down, and find the line that reads:
Exec=vlc %U
Replace the above line with one of the following:
- 1. (all you really need)
Exec=vlc %f
- 2. (recommended settings from ubuntuforums for better dvd playback)
Exec=vlc --vout-filter deinterlace --deinterlace-mode blend --volume 512 %f
- 3. (recommended settings from ubuntuforums for better dvd playback and automatic full screen playback)
Exec=vlc --vout-filter deinterlace --deinterlace-mode blend --volume 512 --fullscreen %f
Save the file and close gedit, then open mimeapps.list. At the console, type:
gedit ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
In most cases this will be a new (blank) file, and all you will need to do is paste in the following text. If mimeapps.list already exists, scroll down until you find the line that begins with «x-content/video-dvd» under the [Added Associations] heading, and change it to match the following text (or paste in the entire line if you couldn't find it).
[Added Associations] x-content/video-dvd=vlc-dvd.desktop;totem.desktop;
Save the file and close gedit. To check that the settings have properly applied, from the Gnome menus go to Places → Home Folder, then from the file manager menus go to Edit → Preferences → Media, and «DVD Video» should be set to «Open VLC media player» (you should be able to choose between Totem/Move Player and VLC)
Installing Amarok (a Music Player)
Whilst Amarok is a KDE/Qt application, it will work fine on Ubuntu, and can be installed by typing:
sudo apt-get install amarok
Installing Exaile (Amarok-like Music Player)
Exaile is a GTK, Amarok-like Music Player. From the command-line terminal:
sudo apt-get install exaile
Make sure you have the appropriate multimedia codecs installed.
Installing Pulseaudio Tools
This will install pulseaudio utilities such as individual application volume controls and audio server tools.
Open a Terminal window and type the following:
sudo apt-get install libasound2-plugins "pulseaudio-*" paman padevchooser paprefs pavucontrol pavumeter libflashsupport
Run Pulseaudio Device Manager from the Applications > Sound and Video menu to access the tools.
Installing XMMS
Note: XMMS is no longer included in the package tree and must be installed from source. This guide is based on <http://blog.sartek.net/2008/04/install-xmms-on-ubuntu-804-hardy-heron.html>.
Be extra carefull. The installation of a package out of PMS (package management system, that means apt and its frontend, Synaptic) may be dangerous, since the system doesn't have a trace of the binaries that are installed after the compilation.
Be sure that you know very well what you do.
Instead of that you should consider of making a .deb package so that you may do an appropriate installation'
XMMS depends on a lot of packages; install them by typing the following into a terminal:
sudo apt-get install autotools-dev automake1.9 libtool gettext libasound2-dev libaudiofile-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglib1.2-dev libgtk1.2-dev libesd0-dev libice-dev libmikmod2-dev libogg-dev libsm-dev libvorbis-dev libxxf86vm-dev libxml-dev libssl-dev build-essential make
Download the source from the XMMS website and unpack the .tar.gz:
From a terminal move to the newly untarred director and type:
./configure --prefix=/usr
Compile the code:
Then install:
sudo make install
You can remove the untarred directory if you so desire. To make audio output work properly, you may have to change the output audio plugin to ALSA from the OSS driver. This is done by opening xmms and navigating through the Options-Preferences menus.
Installing Real Player 11 and Configuring Mozilla Plugin
The following steps show how to install Real Player 11 and Mozilla Plugin for Firefox 3.0 browsers running on Hardy Heron.
Download Real Player 11 from:
Open a terminal and change to the directory where the file was downloaded. Grant execute permissions and run the setup using the following commands:
chmod 770 RealPlayer11GOLD.bin sudo ./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
Use the following default installation directory during the installation:
The installer will copy the files and create menu shortcuts. Then run the following commands.
cd /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins sudo ln -s /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt nphelix.xpt sudo ln -s /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so nphelix.so sudo mv /usr/lib/totem/gstreamer/libtotem-complex-plugin.so ~/.
Open Firefox and type about:plugins in the address bar. Scroll down and look for the following entry.
Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible File name: /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible version 0.4.0.4005 built with gcc 3.4.3 on Feb 25 2008
If found, your Real Plugin is installed properly!
Systems and Network Monitoring
Install the Zenoss stack
Zenoss is a full-featured open source networking monitoring application. To install a version of Zenoss which includes all dependencies, first add the repository by typing:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Αnd paste in the end of the file:
## Zenoss - Ubuntu ## Please report any bugs at http://dev.zenoss.org/trac deb http://dev.zenoss.org/deb main stable
Save the file and exit. Then type:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install zenoss-stack
Start zenoss:
sudo /etc/init.d/zenoss-stack start
Then in your browser, visit http://yourhost:8080, where yourhost is the FQDN of the server on which you installed Zenoss. Zenoss docs are available at http://docs.zenoss.com.
Internet and Web Development
Howto: Tweak and maximize your bandwidth in Ubuntu/Linux via sysctl!
Here I will unleash a few hidden settings that should improve your internet speed, and work with all current linux operating systems including Ubuntu:
1. Open a Terminal via Applications->Accessories->Terminal
sudo vim /etc/sysctl.conf (press i for edit mode)
Then Paste the Following at the end of the file:
## increase TCP max buffer size setable using setsockopt() net.core.rmem_max = 16777216 net.core.wmem_max = 16777216 ## increase Linux autotuning TCP buffer limits ## min, default, and max number of bytes to use ## set max to at least 4MB, or higher if you use very high BDP paths net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 16777216 net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 65536 16777216 ## don't cache ssthresh from previous connection net.ipv4.tcp_no_metrics_save = 1 net.ipv4.tcp_moderate_rcvbuf = 1 ## recommended to increase this for 1000 BT or higher net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 2500 ## for 10 GigE, use this, uncomment below ## net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 30000 ## Turn off timestamps if you're on a gigabit or very busy network ## Having it off is one less thing the IP stack needs to work on ## net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 0 ## disable tcp selective acknowledgements. net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 0 ##enable window scaling net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 1
Type :wq to exit and save.
Type in terminal
sudo sysctl -p
to apply the settings.
You can disable all these settings by removing these lines you added via:
sudo gedit /etc/sysctl.conf
Install a LAMP server on a Desktop
LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MSQL and PHP. You can install an integrated package that includes all four from the Synaptic Package manager (if you are using a Desktop Edition).
System-->Administration-->Synaptic Package Manager--> Edit-->Mark Packages by Task-->LAMP server -->Apply
Simple LAMP server Setup
In around 15 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Server Edition, you can have a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) server up and ready to go. This feature, exclusive to Ubuntu Server Edition, is available at the time of installation.
Check LAMP Server Setup in 15min Very easy setup guide
Install a LAMP server for local web development
This will install Apache2, PHP5, MySql5, and PHPMyAdmin.
Firstly, type the following command at the console:
sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 mysql-server-5.0 phpmyadmin
This will install all the necessary applications. You may be prompted to decide on a MySQL root password (set one if you want), and to configure PHPMyAdmin (select apache2 as the server type). After this is complete, we need to perform some minor configuration to get PHPMyAdmin working. Type:
sudo gedit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
Scroll right to the bottom of the file that opens, and add:
# Enable PHPMyAdmin Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf
Now save, exit, and type:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Everything should now be configured - go to http://127.0.0.1 for webpages, and http://127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin for database administration. The webroot is located in /var/www/ by default. This is not particularly useful, as we do not have write access to this directory. Fortunately, this is easy to solve, by...
Adding a virtual host to your LAMP server
This allows us to access a different folder as our webroot from a different address in our browser - face it, 'localhost' or 127.0.0.1 is boring.
Start by adding a new host. This is easy to do via System --> Administration --> Network; click on the Hosts tab, select the localhost item from the list and click properties. You may need to click the 'Unlock' button and enter your password first. Underneath the entry 'localhost', on a new line, add your entry of choice; for example, we'll use 'testhost'. Add this, and close all the dialogs.
To confirm that the above worked, you can check the '/etc/hosts' file.
sudo gedit /etc/hosts
You should see the following line.
127.0.1.1 testhost
Now we need to edit the Apache configuration file, so type into the console:
sudo gedit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
In the resulting file (which may well be empty), add the definition for your host! My username is 'dan', and I want my webpages to be served from a directory named 'www' in my home, so I would add:
<VirtualHost *> ServerName testhost DocumentRoot /home/dan/www </Virtualhost>
where testhost is the name of the new virtual site (it must match the above entry in your conf file).
After this, you need to restart apache so it can load these new configuration file entries.
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
I can now add files to /home/dan/www, and access them by visiting http://testhost
Fire up terminal and type the followings:
cd /etc/apache2/sites-available sudo touch your-site-name.conf sudo nano your-site-name.conf
Type in your Virtual Host directives, example:
<VirtualHost 127.0.1.1:80> ServerName myserver ServerAdmin me@myserver DocumentRoot /home/me/webroot/default <Directory /home/me/webroot/default> Options -Indexes AllowOverride All Order Allow,Deny Allow From All </Directory> </VirtualHost>
Save the new file and type in the followings:
cd ../sites-enabled ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/your-site-name.conf ./your-site-name.conf cd ../ sudo nano apache2.conf
Go to the end of the apache2.conf file and add the following line just before the comment listed below:
# Include the virtual host configurations: NameVirtualHost 127.0.1.1:80 Include /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
Save the edited file and type the following:
sudo nano /etc/hosts
Edit the entry after 127.0.1.1 to match your configuration, example:
127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 zozi myserver
Last but not least, save the edited file and restart the daemon by doing this:
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Your new virtual host will be accessible at the address http://myserver/.
Home Automation / Home Theater / Home Security
Complete Systems
Linux MCE (Media Center Edition)
LinuxMCE is an integrated home theater/home security/home automation/telephone PBX/intercom system for your home. It is a community project that is a fork of the Linux Pluto commercial endeavour. There is a version that runs on Kubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) and a version for Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy). A version for Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) is due out soon. It is available in 32 and 64 bit versions. LinuxMCE can run either as a standalone Home Theater PC or can co-ordinate a fully networked home, using the networking capabilities that are intrinsically part of the Kubuntu Linux OS. For more info see the LinuxMCE website.
LinuxMCE can be installed at the same time as the Kubuntu OS, on a new PC with an Nvidia graphics card (6000, 7000, or 8000 series), from a single DVD.
LinuxMCE can also be installed as an add-on package to an existing Kubuntu system, using the LinuxMCE 2 CD installation. You will need a Kubuntu LiveCD for your installation, even if you already have a full Kubuntu installation in place. (The LinuxMCE installation uses the Kubuntu LiveCD for additional modules.) Note that the LinuxMCE version must match the Kubuntu version -- i.e. the LinuxMCE 710 version CDs require the Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) Live CD.
With the 2 CD installation, it is possible to run Kubuntu separately from LinuxMCE on the same PC, but it is recommended to dedicate at least one PC to LinuxMCE as a Core server.
LinuxMCE incorporates MythTV, Pluto home automation, Motion security surveillance, Asterisk PBX, VDR video disk recorder, and other home automation/security/theater packages in an integrated platform.
At this time, the automatic installer for Linux MCE uses the KDE desktop (Kubuntu). There are users that have made Linux MCE work with the Gnome desktop (Ubuntu) and other Linux distributions, but it is recommended to stick with the Kubuntu OS, as required by the LinuxMCE automatic installation.
PVR (Personal Video Recorder)
Mythbuntu is an Ubuntu-based derivative (based on the Xubuntu (XFCE) desktop) that is meant to function as a standalone PVR, based on MythTV. It can be used, however, with a Gnome (Ubuntu), KDE (Kubuntu) or XFCE (Xubuntu) desktop, which can be added at any later time.
- Start Synaptic Package Manager.
System-->Administration-->Synaptic Package Manager
- Choose to install the Mythbuntu LiveCD package, or a combination of the Mythbuntu frontend, master backend, slave backend, and/or additional roles. See the website for details.
Synaptic Package Manager-->Mark Packages by Task...
Remote control configuraion - Lircd
In Mythbuntu Control Centre use the following:
- Remote: Custom ( or use one from the list if you happen to have it )
- Driver: [blank] ( most of the time if the right module is loaded )
- Modules: lirc_dev lirc_i2c lirc_igorplugusb ( in the case of diy custom receiver igorplugusb otherwise use module acordingly)
- Configuration: myremote.conf
- use irrecord to generate a .conf file for a custom remote, almost any remote should work
Also use:
dmesg # to check that receiver registered corectly in the kernel sudo mode2 -d /dev/lirc0 # to check that receiver is functioning, try different usb ports if not working irw /dev/lircd # to check that lircd receives the correct remote messages
Warning: Make sure ~/.mythtv/lircdrc uses remote = YourRemoteName, same name used in myremote.conf
sudo /etc/init.d/lirc restart # restart lircd daemon
Restart mythtvfrontend
Home Security
Zoneminder surveillance system
Zoneminder manages surveillance cameras and stores images on the hard disk. Images can be viewed using a (LAMP) server remotely. X10 devices can be triggered using built-in perl scripts. For more info see the Zoneminder website.
- Read #General Notes
- Read #Install a LAMP server on a Desktop
- Install ffmpeg from Synaptic Package Manager, or from the command-line terminal:
apt-get install ffmpeg
Installing the latest Zoneminder version
- Minor tweaks are required to install the latest version (1.23.3) of Zoneminder on Hardy. See the Zoneminder forums here or a note on installing from source here.
Using the repository package
- There is a Zoneminder (version 1.22.3) package for Hardy (that was also the package from Gutsy) in the repositories. You should be able to install the package from Synaptic Package Manager. It is available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
- Detailed instructions that appeared to work for Gutsy are at the Zoneminder Installation Wiki.
Original Feisty installation instructions
- However, if that does not work, try the original instructions that worked for Feisty:
- You must have the LAMP server installed. In addition, you may need additional modules if they are not satisfied by the package dependencies:
sudo apt-get install libarchive-tar-perl libarchive-zip-perl libdate-manip-perl libdevice-serialport-perl sudo apt-get install libjpeg62 libmime-perl libstdc++6 libunwind7 libwww-perl zlib1g
- Download the .deb package from the package manager's website:
- Install using the Debian package manager. (No other method seems to work.)
dpkg -i zoneminder_1.22.3-8_i386.deb
- (Note: If some dependencies are still unsatisfied, make sure you have these packages installed):
sudo apt-get install libc6 libc6.1 libgcc1 libgcc4 libstdc++6
- (These should already be installed as part of the LAMP installation):
sudo apt-get install apache2-mpm-prefork libapache2-mod-php5 libmysqlclient15off mysql-client mysql-server php5 php5-mysql
Setup Zoneminder configuration
If your installation is successful, you will now need to set up the configuration files and databases for Zoneminder.
- Copy the configuration file and restart the Apache2 server.
sudo ln -s /etc/zm/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/zoneminder.conf sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
- View Zoneminder from your web browser:
- Set up a MySQL database for Zoneminder
- Note: In Hardy, the next two steps are accomplished during a LAMP server installation or during MySQL installation.
- If this is the first time you have used MySQL, the default global MySQL superuser root will not have a password. You should set one now. Instructions for setting mySQL initial privileges are here.
- In short:
mysql -u root mysql> UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('your_new_password') WHERE User='root'; mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES; mysql> quit
- In addition, you can set up an additional global MySQL user (such as mysql_user, for example) by following the instructions here. That way you can reserve root login for emergencies.
- In short:
mysql -u root mysql> CREATE USER 'mysql_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'mysql_user_passwd'; mysql> quit
- Now you must create a MySQL database for use by Zoneminder. This is an administrative MySQL command, so you must use one of your global MySQL users (either root or mysql_user, as created in the example above). You can name your Zoneminder database anything you want, instead of zmdatabase.
mysqladmin -u root -p CREATE zmdatabase
- or
mysqladmin -u mysql_user -p CREATE zmdatabase
- Create users for the Zoneminder database. As always, I create a root user for emergency use. I use the same password for root as I do elsewhere on my system. Then I also create a user named zm_user (but you could also creat a user named mysql_user, to keep everything consistent). [I use a unique user here because this is a home security system, after all, and I don't want it breached.] These users are specific to this database; they can be the same users as used elsewhere in the system or can be unique users.
mysql> GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER, CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES, LOCK TABLES ON zmdatabase.* TO 'zm_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; mysql> GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER, CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES, LOCK TABLES ON zmdatabase.* TO 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; (I used my usual root password here). mysql> quit mysqladmin reload
- Note: mysql commands (i.e. any entered at the mysql> prompt) must end with a semicolon. If you forget the semicolon, nothing will happen.
Myth Zoneminder
MythZoneminder allows you to view your security cameras through Myth TV, essentially. It is a plugin that interfaces the two packages Zoneminder (which must be working on your system) and Myth TV (which must also be working.) It can be found in Synpatic Package Manager as the mythzoneminder package.
See the installation instructions.
How to restore GRUB to a partition or MBR with an Ubuntu Live CD
Sometimes, if an Ubuntu installation goes wrong, or a Windows NT bootloader overwrites MBR and doesn't recognise the Linux installation, we have to restore our GRUB bootloader that is, generally, very flexible.
First of all, we burn a Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04) ISO (on a CD(R , RW) or DVD (+R , +RW)) or make sure that we have one already.
Then, we change, in the BIOS, the boot load sequence and we put the CD/DVD option first.
After that, we boot the Live CD, we choose the first option and in a few minutes we have arrived at the Live CD Desktop.
So, we go :
Applications --> Accessories --> Terminal
Then, we have to remember which is our Ubuntu installation partition.
In our example, it is the second one (/dev/sda2), formatted as ext3, in the first HDD of a SATA controller. We suppose that it is the second one, since, in case we have Windows that demand to be in the first partition (/dev/sda1), this one is occupied.
Now, you have to be really careful. You have to enter the right partition, instead of sda2 (unless it is the same) In the terminal :
cd / sudo -s -H
mount -t ext3 /dev/sda2 /mnt
mount -t proc proc /mnt/proc
mount -t sysfs sys /mnt/sys
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
chroot /mnt /bin/bash
And now, you are actually "running" Ubuntu within the Hard Drive but through Live CD's terminal.
Now we restore GRUB like that:
1) Restoration to MBR
grub-install /dev/sda
2) Restoration to partition (example: /dev/sda2)
grub-install /dev/sda2
In the first case (that is the most usual) you have certainly installed GRUB on MBR after you receive, in the terminal, the message that there are no errors.
After you reboot, you have your favorite bootloader restored.
Encrypt home partition with cryptsetup & LUKS
First step is to backup all necessary data, if something goes wrong your data will be lost in the process if it's not backed up. Also note that your home folder needs to be located on a separate partition than your root partition, if not see #How to make partitions.
Second, install necessary software:
sudo apt-get install cryptsetup
Insert the new module, dm-crypt into the kernel:
sudo modprobe dm-crypt
Check to see what encryption schemes are available:
cat /proc/crypto
If only MD5 is listed, try inserting the appropriate modules into the kernel:
sudo modprobe serpent
Above is an example, this could also be twofish, blowfish or anything other crypto module that you would like to use.
The following commands will assume that your home partition is /dev/sda1, please change it to match your own configuration.
Next step we use cryptsetup to change the partition with the luksFormat option, this command will cause you to lose all data on /dev/sda1.
sudo cryptsetup luksFormat -c algorithm -y -s size /dev/sda1
Where algorithm is the algorithm that you chose above such as serpent aes, etc.
Size is the key size for encryption, this is generally 128 or 256. Without specifying the algorithm or the size, I believe it defaults to AES 256, more information and additional options can be found by reading the man page. The above step will ask you to choose a password and verify it. Do not forget this password.
We can then use the luksOpen option to open the encrypted drive.
sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda1 home
Home is a nickname which cryptsetup uses to refer to /dev/sda1. It also creates the device /dev/mapper/home, this is what you would actually mount to access the filesystem. If you specify another name other than home, it will create the device /dev/mapper/[name], where [name] is the nickname that cryptsetup will use. This step will ask you for your LUKS passphrase, this is the password you created in the previous step.
Next, we create the actual filesystem on the device. I use reiserfs, but it could just as well be ext3.
sudo mkreiserfs /dev/mapper/home
sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/mapper/home
Next step is to mount your encrypted device and copy your files back to your home directory.
mkdir new_home sudo mount /dev/mapper/home new_home cp -r * new_home
Now we have to set up everything so that it's ready to go at boot, we need to tell the system that there are encrypted disks that we want mounted.
gksudo gedit /etc/crypttab
Enter the following as one line at the end of the file.
home /dev/sda1 none luks,tries=3
remember home can be any name that you want, just remember that this maps to /dev/mapper/[name]. The option tries=3 allows 3 tries before a reboot is required or the disk is not decrypted.
Next enter the device info in fstab that we want to mount on boot.
gksudo gedit /etc/fstab
Enter the information as one line at the end of the file.
/dev/mapper/home /home reiserfs defaults 0 0
Remember to substitute /dev/mapper/home with your device /dev/mapper/[name], /home is the mount point, since this is our home directory, reiserfs is the filesystem type, put ext3 if you formatted it as ext3. For now the default options should be good, change this if you need/require something else. Also, now is a good time to remove the old /dev/sda1 device entry so that fstab doesn't try to load it at boot. This can be accomplished by commenting out the /dev/sda1 line or deleting it.
Final step is to make sure that the proper modules are loaded at boot time.
gksudo gedit /etc/modules
Now add dm-crypt and the crypto module that you used earlier, such as serpent, aes, etc. Each needs to be on its own line.
dm-crypt serpent
That should be it, all that's required is a reboot. During the reboot process, the computer will say "Starting early crypto disks" and ask for your passphrase. If the passphrase is accepted, it will unlock the encrypted partition and mount it on your specified mount point.
You can change the way you enter a command in order to be executed by entering an alias.
For example, you may enter in a terminal "update-system" (a command that in face doesn't exists) that replaces "sudo apt-get update". You can do the same thing for other commands.
This is what you do. Our example is going to be the alias of the command
ls -FCal --color=auto
that shows with colours and many details the contents of a folder.
Open a terminal
Applications --> Accessories --> Terminal
and enter
gedit ~/.bashrc
Be carefull now. Don't erase anything there.
Now, go to the end of the document and enter
alias ll="ls -FCal --color=auto"
As you can see, now with the command
whenever we want, we call, in fact, this one
ls -FCal --color=auto
You can do the same thing for other commands that need a lot of switches.
Save the document, close the terminal and reopen it. You may now check your new alias.
Tips & Tricks
Change the splash screen color
Originally a brownish color to match the Ubuntu theme, it does not quite fit with other themes and might want to be changed. Enter the gdm.conf file (sudo gedit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf). About two-thirds of the way down you will see the lines:
BackgroundColor=#dab082 GraphicalThemedColor=#dab082
Change it to what you like. For all black, use:
BackgroundColor=#000000 GraphicalThemedColor=#000000
Change the default Terminal window size
The default size of the Terminal window is around 80 columns wide and 24 columns high. To alter this, edit the file /usr/share/vte/termcap/xterm. You can use the following command:
sudo gedit /usr/share/vte/termcap/xterm
Just a few lines from the top will be the line reading:
Change the number right after co# to change the width. Change the number right after li# to change the height.
Change the Samba workgroup
- The Samba workgroup for use in a Windows network is set to "WORKGROUP" by default. It should be changed to match the workgroup used on your Windows network
- Edit the Samba configuration file:
sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf
- Edit the line:
workgroup = WORKGROUP
Change it to the name of your actual workgroup name. For example, my workgroup is MSHOME, so I changed the line to:
workgroup = MSHOME
Save the file.
- Reboot.
Fix the shutdown "Network Error" display (restore shutdown splash screen)
Many Ubuntu systems have a minor bug when shutting down. Instead of displaying a splash screen indicating the progress of the shutdown process, the user is dropped out to a console screen flooded with shutdown notices (mostly network error messages). These messages are normal and expected, there is nothing to be concerned about. But it can be a bit unsightly, and it would seem that the Ubuntu team intended to have those messages hidden by the splash screen. The splash screen can be restored without much effort:
- Go to System → Administration → Login Window, and select the Local tab
- Select a different theme, then re-select the default theme ("Human"). This just refreshes the setting
- Click Close, then go back to System → Administration → Login Window, and select the Local tab again
- You'll notice that the settings are different to what you've just chosen. Restore the setting to their defaults -- Choose Selected only from the Theme drop-down box (instead of "Random from selected"), and re-select the default Ubuntu theme ("Human"). When complete, click Close. The setting will have saved properly this time, and the shutdown splash screen should work as intended.
How to make partitions
It is very easy to make partitions with Ubuntu .
Open a terminal and type:
sudo apt-get install gparted
Then navigate to
System --> Administration --> Partition Editor
Then gParted is going to check for your disks and partitions.
There you can modify your partitions but on those that are NOT on the System.
More info :
1) Usage of gParted (it is distributed as Live CD as well) -->http://howtoforge.com/partitioning_with_gparted
2) How to separate your /home partition in Ubuntu --> http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome
How to enable Compiz Fusion in Ubuntu
In Ubuntu Hardy Heron, Compiz Fusion is already installed and is automatically enabled after you have installed your graphics' card drivers.
The only thing you have to do is to install the Compiz Configuration Settings Manager.
Open a terminal and type:
sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager fusion-icon
and it shall be installed. After that navigate to:
System --> Preferences --> Advanced Desktop Effects Settings
and there you may enable/disable any plugin you want.
To run Compiz-Fusion Tray Icon, nativate to:
Applications --> System Tools --> Compiz Fusion Icon
or run in the command line:
and the tray icon shall start.
Add-on Applications
Wine is a Windows Win32 binary compatibility layer for Linux. Latest install instructions are always at: WineHQ.org
Add repository key:
wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
Add repository to apt sources:
sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list
Update apt sources:
sudo apt-get update
Install Wine:
sudo apt-get install wine
The program menu then appears in Programs under Wine, or double-click a Windows/DOS .exe file.
Unison - file synchronization tool
Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.
Nice Installation and Usage Guide check This
PlayOnLinux is a Wine frontend which simplify installation and launch of many Windows programs, particularly games.
Add repository key:
wget -q http://playonlinux.botux.net/pol.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
Add repository to apt sources:
sudo wget http://playonlinux.botux.net/playonlinux_hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list
Update apt sources:
sudo apt-get update
Install PlayOnLinux:
sudo apt-get install playonlinux
Tor, privoxy, and Tor GUI (Vidalia)
Tor is a software project that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world:
If you want to install and configure tor follow This Guide
How to Sync your emails, files, bookmarks, and any other type of personal information
Conduit is a synchronization solution for GNOME which allows the user to take their emails, files, bookmarks, and any other type of personal information and synchronize that data with another computer, an online service, or even another electronic device.Conduit manages the synchronization and conversion of data into other formats.
If you want to install and configure in Ubuntu Follow This Tutorial
How to install applications for study of religious texts
- For study of Bible see GnomeSword
- For study of Quran see Zekr
How to install Google Gadgets in Ubuntu Hardy
Google Gadgets for Linux provides a platform for running desktop gadgets under Linux, catering to the unique needs of Linux users. We are compatible with the gadgets written for Google Desktop for Windows as well as the Universal Gadgets on iGoogle. Following Linux norms, this project will be open-sourced, under the Apache License.
If you want to install and this beautiful gadgets into your ubuntu desktop try This simple installation guide.
How to install Gnomesword (Bible study program)
- Read #General Notes
- Read #How to add extra repositories
- This installs the english version of the program.
sudo apt-get install gnomesword sword-language-pack-en sword-text-web
- If you require other languages type:
sudo apt-cache search bible
- Take a look at the sword-language-pack's and the sword-text's for additional languages and install as needed.
Gnomesword is found under Applications-->Accessories.
- Under KDE, use kio-sword instead of Gnomesword:
sudo apt-get install kio-sword
How to install a Quran researching tool (Zekr)
Zekr is an open platform Quran study tool for simply browsing and researching on the Quran.
- Make sure that You have enabled universe and multiverse Ubuntu repositories.
- Install zekr with the following command:
sudo apt-get install zekr zekr-quran-translations-en ttf-sil-scheherazade ttf-farsiweb
- You can add more Quran translations from here.
- If you like to upgrade to the latest stable version of zekr, which supports Quran Recitation and advanced boolean/regular expression search, follow instructions available Zekr wiki.
Playing N64 with the emulator Mupen64Plus for Linux
Mupen64 was originally a Nintendo 64 emulator for multi-OS. The development was dead, until someone started to check the source again, and thats what Mupen64Plus is about... Really good compatibility with different plugins for video/audio/controllers!!!
Download it from here: Mupen64Plus 1.3 32-Bit Mupen64Plus 1.3 64-Bit
- Unzip it:
unzip Mupen64Plus-1-3-bin-*.zip
- Go to the directory:
cd Mupen64Plus-1-3-bin-*/
- Install:
Now its installed, you can run it from everywhere typing mupen64plus or just create an icon to it.
Watching Live-TV On Your Ubuntu Desktop With Zattoo
Zattoo has developed a software program that allows you to watch TV on your computer. All you need is a broadband connection and a current operating system (Windows XP or Vista, Mac OS X, or Linux). The service is legal and free of charge.
If you want to install and configure Zattoo in Ubuntu, check out this tutorial.
How to upgrade from Hardy Heron to Intrepid Ibex (for developers and bug reports only)
- This isn't yet a safe way to upgrade to the next version of Ubuntu. The packages are still in experimental stage, since the dependencies aren't ready yet. Most users should continue using the current stable edition. Testers consider running Ibext in a testing environment (for example, on a Virtual Machine, Wubi or Lubi.)
Upgrade to Intrepid Manually
- Until the first Alphas enter the repositories, the update manager will not prompt you to install Intrepid Ibex with the command
update-manager -d
- You can do it manually by changing your sources.list file:
- Backup the sources.list file:
sudo -i cd /etc/apt/ cp sources.list sources.list.backup
- Change the repositories:
- Delete everything in the old sources.list file and paste these:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid main universe restricted multiverse deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-security universe main multiverse restricted deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates universe main multiverse restricted deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-proposed universe main multiverse restricted deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-backports universe main multiverse restricted
- Update the repository cache:
sudo -i aptitude update
- Check in Software sources that everything has changed to Intrepid. No Hardy repos should be there. If there are, disable them and enable the Intrepid repos.
- Update the repository cache again, upgrade all packages, do a distrubution upgrade to Intrepid, then upgrade all the new Intrepid packages (some of these are voodoo steps):
aptitude update
aptitude upgrade
aptitude dist-upgrade
aptitude upgrade
Every command should be done alone and you have to check continuously which packages have conflicts with the old ones and which ones are being removed. Be careful: if important system packages are removed (libs, gcc , xorg packages, bash , ubuntu-desktop , gdm etc), you must reinstall them (this can happen in the case of meta-packages)
- Everything sould be done by advanced users and ONLY in testing environment. These packages are unstable (like those in [experimental] in Debian Sid/Unstable).
It has been reported that debconf package may not be installed automatically. Lock it's hardy version through Synaptic.
Upgrade to Intrepid automatically
- When the first Alphas enter their way into the repositories, change the repositories:
sudo update-manager -d
Check if the Hardy repositories are disabled and replaced by Intrepid repositories.

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I have a Dell XPS M140 with the specs listed below. I have not run into any major noticeable issues. Hope this will be of some use, just trying to contribute some. Only startx is the remaining issue with this laptop but does not appear a major issue if you log in, out and back in.
*(The first is with my wireless card. I believe it is an issue with me at this point and not BT. I am not able to use the ipw-patched driver when I select it through WICD manager properties. I have no issues while using the wext driver. I am still reading and researching the issue I am having to get the proper way for the ipw driver to work. I am also going to be starting to use an ALFA card.) ----** This is issue was solved, it was me as I had assumed I finally got around to trying injection on my AP and everything went fine. But only succesful in 3 attacks which from what I read is correct.*
Second is when doing startx I get the error: X: warning; process set to priority -1 instead of requested priority 0. The only time this error occurs is when I start the computer up fresh, log in, and give the startx command. Once it has booted completely if I log out then back in I no longer receive the error complaining about the priority. I have not looked into this issue yet as I have not noticed any problems running it with the error or without. (I did do the fix-splash just have not checked the menu.lst yet)(Trying fix-vesa adds even more errors, complaining about init not being able to do something with X11 fonts for mouse 1) For now, I just have been logging in and out and back to solve it. Only running the fix-splash command.
CPU: Intel Pentium M 1.86MHZ
Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG
Intel Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Chipset
Broadcom Corp BCM4401-B0 100Base-Tx
If specs that are more detailed are needed or any other further information please let me know and I will do my best to get the info posted.
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You are now the 4th or 5th person in the last couple of days to make this complaint. I couldnt get it to even connect to unsecured AP's. It would tell the network has encryption and needs a key.
It seems to occur when I start wicd at the initial prompt. If I wait, and start wicd in a console after I enter the KDE, it seems fine. Tell me if its the same for you.


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Ms. Michele LeVoy (Director)
Michele joined PICUM in March 2002 as a researcher on the organization's first EU project on solidarity towards undocumented migrants in Europe. She became director in April 2006. She was previously coordinator of an international Master Degree program in human ecology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and coordinator of a European multicultural society youth program at Pax Christi International. She has worked with resettled refugees in Chicago, USA, and with migrants in Brazil. She holds a Bachelor degree in French and Justice and Peace Studies from the University of St. Thomas and a Master in Applied Sciences (Housing and Development Program) from the Université Catholique de Louvain.
Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish. She also speaks some Dutch and Italian.
Ms. Eve Geddie (Program Officer)
Eve currently leads PICUM's project on Undocumented Migrant Women. She joined the PICUM team in January 2007, working on the access to health care project before twice serving as Acting Director (maternity-leave replacement). Prior to this, Eve worked in Ireland's community development and NGO sector, providing services to disadvantaged groups and also campaigning for regularisation. She holds a European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC, Venice, Italy) and a BA(Hons First Class), in English, Media and Cultural Studies (DLIADT, Dublin).
Languages: English and French
Ms. Kadri Soova (Advocacy Officer)
Kadri joined the PICUM team as a Project Officer in October 2009. She became Advocacy Officer in November 2010. Previously she worked as an Adviser on social rights for the Chancellor of Justice of Estonia. She specialized in children's rights and also worked as a consultant for SOS Children's Villages in Estonia. Kadri studied Law at the University of Tartu in Estonia and did her Masters Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation at the Inter-University Centre in Venice and University of Padua in Italy. Her academic studies were focused on the rights of migrants.
Languages: Estonian, English, Italian, Dutch. She also speaks some Finnish, Russian and French.
Kadri Soova will be on maternity leave until March 2014.
Ms. Lilana Keith (Programme Officer)
Lilana started in her position as Programme Officer in May 2012 after being Project Officer for PICUM's project on Undocumented Children since March 2011. Prior to this, she worked for the European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM), which funds organizations working on migration and integration issues. She has also worked on community-building and integration initiatives for migrants, regardless of status, in a suburb of Washington D.C. Lilana holds an MA in Migration Studies from the University of Kent Brussels School of International Studies, where she focused her research on international, EU and British human rights and migration laws and policies regarding irregular migrants and asylum seekers. She also holds a BA in Social Anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies.
Languages: English and French
Mr. Paul Geeraerts (Office and Financial Administrator)
Paul joined PICUM in March 2010 as Office and Financial Administrator. Previously, he was Director of Finance and Administration at Avocats sans Frontières for one year, he covered different positions in finance at the International Planned Parenthood Federation for 8 years and before that at Warner-Lambert for 10 years. He holds a BA in accounting and fiscal law.
Languages: Dutch, French and English.
Ms. Elisabeth Schmidt-Hieber (Communications Officer)
Elisabeth joined the PICUM team in February 2013 as Communications Officer. She manages all communications related activities including media relations, publications and newsletters as well as online communications including social media and the communications of PICUM's projects and events. Elisabeth is German and previously worked in the corporate communications team of a global public relations agency in Brussels where she mainly supported the communications of clients in the field of development aid, philanthropy and renewable energy. Prior to that, Elisabeth worked in the communications team of a disability rights NGO in Brussels.
Languages: German, English, Spanish, French and some Brazilian Portuguese
Ms. Maria Giovanna Manieri (Programme Assistant)
Maria Giovanna develops PICUM's legal strategies and is in charge of the working group on legal strategies. She also supports the policy and advocacy work, institutional relations, alliance building and external representation of PICUM. This includes speaking at events, drafting position papers and PICUM's response to relevant legislative and policy developments within the European Union. Maria Giovanna joined the PICUM team in September 2012 and started her current position in January 2013. Prior to that, she worked as human rights lawyer in the UK. Maria Giovanna specialised in migration policies and also worked on the issue of internal forced displacement at the Italian Embassy in Bogotá, Colombia. She studied law at the University of Bologna in Italy and at the University of King's College in the UK. She also holds a Master's Degree in Diplomacy and International Relations from the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Diplomatic School and is a qualified lawyer and member of the Spanish Bar Association.
Languages: Italian, English, Spanish and French. She also speaks some Afrikaans.
Ms. Mercedes Miletti (Administrative Assistant)
Mercedes is in charge of all general administration of PICUM's office including the preparation of internal and external events and relations with PICUM's membership. She also assists the communication, advocacy and programme officers on different projects. Mercedes joined PICUM as intern in June 2013 and became Administrative Assistant in September 2013. Prior to this, Mercedes did field research for her masters' thesis on Filipino migration both in Brussels and in the Philippines with a scholarship from the Belgian government. She also worked for the Center for Migrant Advocacy in Manila and volunteered for two years at OR.C.A, a PICUM member organisation in Belgium, supporting their project on undocumented domestic workers. Mercedes is Argentinian with Italian citizenship and holds an Msc in Cultures and Development Studies from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. She graduated in Political Sciences and International Relations at the Universidad Catolica Argentina in Buenos Aires.
Languages: Spanish, Italian, English and French
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FirstGov -- Opening Up Government
June 29, 2000
Contact: Eleni Martin (202) 501-1231
Washington, DC - Technology is getting better and better and the federal government is using that technology to be more responsive to meeting the needs of its customers--the American taxpayers.
"FirstGov is about open government," said GSA Administrator Dave Barram. "Citizens will have the opportunity to know government better than they've ever known it before. FirstGov raises the bar American citizens will expect more and the federal government will need to deliver more. It will shake up government web sites and will change how people in government work."
The FirstGov government-managed portal will serve as a front door to millions of government web pages, 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week. The FirstGov database will collect all agency-posted pages into an index and provide fast search and retrieval. FirstGov certified partners, who meet the government's conditions, will provide broad and deep navigation by innovative companies.
Today, the FirstGov Board of Directors convened its first meeting to discuss the FirstGov charter. Members of the Board from the President's Management Council (PMC) are: Dave Barram, Administrator, General Services Administration; Mort Downey, Deputy Secretary, Department of Transportation; Bill Halter, Deputy Commissioner, Social Security Administration; Sally Katzen, Counselor to the Director, Office of Management and Budget; Bill Lynn, Undersecretary of Defense (Comptroller), Department of Defense; Robert Mallett, Deputy Secretary, Department of Commerce; Mike McCabe, Acting Deputy Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; Morley Winograd, Policy Advisor to Vice President Gore, Director, National Partnership for Reinventing Government. Members from the Chief Information Officers Council are: Roger Baker, Department of Commerce, Chair of Security & Privacy Committee; George Molaski, Department of Transportation, Chair of eGovernment Committee; Bill Piatt, GSA, Chair of Interoperability & Emerging Technology Committee.
"Government information on the web is like having many needles in the haystack," said GSA's Associate Administrator for Governmentwide Policy Marty Wagner. "FirstGov gives citizens the magnet to find the needles in the haystack."
The first phase of FirstGov charter will be the creation of the critical database that will be built at no cost to taxpayers through a newly formed foundation created by entrepreneur Eric Brewer.
Brewer's Foundation will build a database containing copies of the full-page text of all government web pages�possibly as many as 100 million pages�that can be searched using the scalable search-engine technology that Brewer co-invented and upon which he co-founded Inktomi. This technology allows Inktomi to search half a billion documents in less than one-quarter of a second. The Foundation will use this technology and will have the ability to handle millions of searches a day. A typical search will provide a list of results that will direct the user to the government web site where the actual page resides. The work of the Foundation will also include development of a user-friendly portal
The second part of the charter of the government's FirstGov team will be to create the FirstGov brand. This brand will be available for use by commercial and non-commercial organizations that agree to abide by a set of "FirstGov Brand" conditions. The FirstGov Board of Directors will manage adherence to these conditions.
By allowing Yahoo, Jeeves, and other portals to have access to FirstGov, people can continue to use familiar portals while benefiting from full text search of all government web pages.


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DUBLIN/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Singer Van Morrison on Thursday denied that he had fathered a child with his manager, saying a widely reported statement that appeared on his website three days ago was the result of a hacking attack.
Irish state broadcaster RTE published a statement signed by the publicity-shy blues and R&B singer-songwriter that says a birth announcement on his website on Monday was "completely and utterly without foundation."
A statement saying that "Gigi and Van Morrison are very proud to announce the birth of their first born son, George Ivan Morrison III," was also distributed to the media by the Belfast-born singer's Los Angeles-based publicist, Phil Lobel.
Lobel described Gigi Lee to Reuters on Monday as Morrison's manager and "mother of his child." Morrison, 64, was reported on Thursday as telling a friend he did not even know the name.
Lobel said in a statement on Thursday that his office had "passed along information from the official website of Van Morrison, which we are now told had been hacked. All those with Van Morrison regret any confusion this may have caused."
Morrison said he had asked his management to investigate the hacking attack, adding that it was the second in three months.
Earlier on Thursday, John Saunders, a friend and Dublin-based executive at public relations agency Fleishman-Hillard, said Van Morrison had told him that he did not know Gigi.
"He has said to me on the phone today, he has said it's not true," Saunders told Reuters in Dublin. "He has never heard of this person Gigi, the name means nothing to him."
Gigi Lee is listed as the executive producer of Morrison's 2009 " 'Astral Weeks' Live at the Hollywood Bowl" concert DVD. The LA Weekly described Lee as being backstage during its May 2009 interview with Morrison, and the British Sunday Times quoted her in a September 2009 story about a forthcoming documentary on Morrison.
Morrison said in his statement that he was "very happily married to Michelle Morrison with whom I have two wonderful children."
Asked why Morrison had waited several days to deny the baby story, Saunders said that the singer was not good at handling his public relations.
"Van is a mystery man in many ways, his fans will testify to that," Saunders told RTE.
Morrison, whose 45-year career spans soul, blues, jazz, R&B and country, also has an adult daughter, singer-songwriter Shana Morrison, from his first marriage.
Famed for such tunes as "Gloria" and "Brown Eyed Girl," he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993 but declined to attend the ceremony.
Reporting by Andras Gergely in Dublin and Jill Serjeant in Los Angeles: Editing by Xavier Briand


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Rodarte Spring 2014
Laura and Kate Mulleavy thought out their summer collection as a companion piece to last fall's show, part two of an essay on the California they know, love, live, and work in—and why not? Since Hedi Slimane turned his back on Europe to plug into the energy of the West Coast's indie music culture, fashion as a whole has been craning its neck to understand what goes on out there. The Mulleavy sisters have grown up knowing it. "Last season was so influenced by Northern California—nature, the land, trees," Laura explained. "But L.A. was built out of nothing, the desert. It's a powerful epicenter, a city with so many layers like every metropolis. We think of it as fierce and powerful." So this second installment is about Los Angeles and the many dimensions it brought to the sisters' minds.
Their opener riffed on the eternal vocabulary of street cool: girls in leather biker vests, slung about with hipster chains, padlocked necklaces, ultra cutoff shorts, blazers in garish glam-gold tiger print, razzle-dazzle tinsel bras, and tons of fringe all walking in pointy rockabilly boots. That toughness might seem an alien point of departure for a couple of designers whose more familiar territory is allusive Romanticism, but that imprint emerged later, teased out of Latin flounces and multiple versions of their collaged, panelled dresses.
Well, that's creativity in action—the intensity and openess to free-association, which makes something original, out of the ordinary, even satisfyingly bizarre. The dresses, which came entwined with embroidered scorpions, carried that sharp sting of surprise—a dangerous glamour strong enough to cut a swathe through any party. Laura said she really couldn't account for how she and Kate had decided on it. "But," she laughed, "we mean it as a symbol of power in a positive way. Determined, and really cool."


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Wonder why the reaction of European and US leaders to events in Iran has been so muted? No, it isn't because (as some of the self-hating Leftists who hang out on CIF imagine) the Iranian people joyfully voted for Ahmadinejad in their tens of millions and only a handful of elitist western stooges and spoiled rich girls supported the "moderate". Time has the answer:
When it came time to confront a stalling Iran by dropping the carrots and applying the sticks, said a senior European diplomat, "Try to imagine how difficult it would be to say 'I stop, I don't negotiate anymore,' " if a moderate were in charge in Tehran.
In the days since Iran's troubled election, hard-liners in Israel and neoconservatives in America have made no secret of their glee at still having Ahmadinejad as an antagonistic foil to help build support for taking a tougher line on Tehran's nuclear ambitions. But there is also widespread relief in the Administration, as well as among some moderates on Capitol Hill and in Europe, at the result. Despite all the attention paid to the office of the Iranian presidency, nuclear policy is set by the religious leaders of the country, and they have shown a determination to amass enriched uranium regardless of whether hard-liners or moderates have been President.
The same "European diplomat" - I'm guessing a Brit - described a Mousavi win as "a nightmare scenario". There's no doubt that as a pantomime villain Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fills a Saddam-shaped hole perfectly. But the cynicism of the policy recalls earlier Western interventions in Iranian politics. Mir Hossein Mousavi, latterly a liberal hero, would have done little fundamentally to change Iran, or its nuclear ambitions. Yet he offered some hope to growing numbers of Iranians out of tune with the restrictions and propaganda of Ahmadinejad's Islamist utopia. He and his puppet-masters now seem bent on a cultural revolution that will either break Iran - with all the unpredictable and destabilising results that implies - or, more likely, turn it inwards. It will regress to the condition of a theocratic North Korea, dominated by paranoia and antagonism, its people condemned to years more repression just as they were daring to imagine new freedoms, its regime maintaining itself by talking up external threats. I can't see that as being in anybody's interest.


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Daniel Gervais Gives Fourth Annual Finnegan Lecture at WCL
Tamara Teslovich
Octber 23, 2008
On October 21, 2008 Daniel J. Gervais addressed a room full of students, faculty and IP practitioners on the subject of TRIPS 3.0.
He began his lecture with an introduction to TRIPS including a detailed look at the ways in which it has progressed:
The first multilateral agreement to cover the full range of IP rights, TRIPS began as a detailed set of provisions on domestic enforcement of IP subject to WTO dispute-settlement mechanisms. TRIPS 1.0 was developed in response to the realization that IP was property and needed protection and a way in which to import and export as well as an infrastructure to facilitate outsourcing. With TRIPS 2.0 the focus had changed 180 degrees, with an emphasis on the impact of IP in the west and numerous empirical studies including those regarding the developing world. TRIPS 3.0 is all about calibration. With a vast range of products, consumers, and countries, the question of the day is whether or not IP as a trade right can accommodate these distinctions. Furthermore, there exists mass confusion as to whether IP exists for innovation or for FDI?
Moving on the implementation of TRIPS, Mr. Gervais discussed the trade-related aspects of IP and the ways in which IP interacts with other rights. From human rights to cultural rights, the WTO has made it clear that TRIPS may not be read in critical isolation from international law, and that non IP rights may be imported in an attempt to interpret human rights particularly in those areas related to Traditional Knowledge. With TRIPS 3.0, IP has become more than just another right; it has become part of a national innovation strategy particularly within developing countries. Meanwhile, developed countries are faced with a need to recalibrate their efforts to deal with a plethora of issues including excesses of patent law, technological advancements, dilution, DMCA, business method patents, and more.
Once finished with an examination of the past and present, Mr. Gervais moved on to the future of innovation and the need for us to question the assumptions of our system once and for all. Is democracy necessary for innovation? What about political rights? Should the United States worry about being overtaken by developing nations enjoying a new player's advantage? Is our existing system sustainable? What role is there for the citizens? What role is there for the states themselves? Can the United States afford to remain an exceptionalist player or will we be forced to engage multilaterally at some point in order to remain competitive on an international level? What role should the WTO play in negotiations?
With so many questions left unanswered, the only thing certain about this situation is that now, more than ever, we are in need of innovative minds willing to think outside the box, take chances, and ask those questions that no one dares to ask so that we may find an answer once and for all.
To see the lecture for yourself check out the webcast.


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Mike Bickle gives perspective on the manifestations of the Spirit at IHOP-KC.. Great Perspectives... http://mikebickle.org/video-player/?resource=3131 … [Read more...]
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