Open up a terminal session and type the following:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/beta sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Remember this is KDE 4.5 BETA. Do NOT do this on a production system.
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How To: Install KDE 4.5 beta on kubuntu 10.04
How to Forecast Weather Without Technology
In a complete 180 degree turn from this websites normal content, I am going to tell you how to forecast the weather without any technology.
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How to: Install Evolution 2.30 on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
For some reason unbeknown to me, the developers of Ubuntu 10.04 updated Gnome desktop environment to version to 2.30 but left the Evolution version as 2.28. I think that this version of Evolution is really buggy and the decision was a very bad idea. In this article I will show you how to upgrade your Evolution version to 2.30 and install the Evolution-mapi client so that you can connect to a Microsoft Exchange 2007 server.
To do this we will be using unofficial Ubuntu packages created and maintained by Jacob Zimmerman. The packages are located on his PPA page.
Step 1:
Install Jacob’s PPA package repository on your system. Open up a terminal session and type the following:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jacob/evo230
This will install Jacob’s PPA repository for Evolution 2.30. It will also import the security key.
Step 2:
Update your computer’s repository information.
In the same terminal windows type:
sudo apt-get update
Step 3:
Next type to upgrade Evolution from 2.28 to 2.30:
sudo apt-get install evolution
apt will respond by telling you that there are several packages that need installed, upgrade, and removed. Hit the “Y” key to continue.
Now sit back and relax as apt upgrades to Evolution 2.30.
Extra:
If you are in a corporate/school environment that uses Microsoft Exchange 2007 for its email server you can install the evolution-mapi package to allow Evolution to communicate with the server. Remember this is still a very experimental package, however I have found that it is far better in version 2.30 than it ever was is 2.28.
Type this to install evolution-mapi
apt-get install evolution-mapi
This will also need you to hit “Y” to install becuase there are several new packages that get installed to support Evolution-mapi
You should now be able to fire up Evolution and configure it for you email environment.
Note about mapi-plugin:
Here is the response from the evo230 maintainer about the evolution-mapi plug-in
Hi Terry
I’m sorry that I had to remove the mapi package from the PPA for the moment. The latest version doesn’t build properly on lucid, and besides many people experienced problems with that package that could only be solved by upgrading openchange to version 0.10, which is also not possible for dependency reasons. Hope you understand.
Kind regards
Jacob
I will keep you posted if anything changes
Note:
The first time that I open Evolution after upgrading I just got a gray screen. To fix this all I did was reboot.
How to Skip Past Previews on DVDs
We all hate having to sit through those annyoying 15 minutes of previews on DVD movies, its even worse when you have to make a little kid wait. Here is a way to skip past all of those previews and go directly to the movie even when you the DVD maker has blocked the fast forward or skip button. Get you pop corn becuase it’s movie time.
Step 1:
Put the DVD in your DVD player and press play
Step 2:
Once the previews start hit Stop twice on your remote and then hit play.
You should now be at the start of the movie. This trick should work on most DVD players but your mileage may vary. Enjoy
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Google Code University is a free site that has on-line courses to teach you how to program in many different programing languages. It include on-line video lectures, written material, and code examples. Currently I am taking the Python class so I am sure you will see some Python projects on this site soon.
Fix Minimize/Maximize/Close Button Order in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
For some unknown reason the developers of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx swapped the order of the minimize and maximize buttons. Here is how to change it back to normal order.
In Gnome hit Alt-F2 to open up the run box. Once opened type gconf-editor
Once gconf-editor is open navigate to the apps -> metacity -> general and change
button_layout to :minimize,maximize,close
That’s it.
Update: (2010-05-12)
Even easier way and cooler because its done on the command line is to open up a terminal and while logged in as your user account
Type this:
gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout ":minimize,maximize,close"
Update: Thanks to the comment from LMB you can use this command to add the menu icon on the left side of the menu bar.
gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout "menu:minimize,maximize,close"