Grisbi a Personal Accounting Application for Linux

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Grisbi is a personnal accounting application running under GNU/Linux and Windows, released under the GPL licence.

Grisbi can manage multiple accounts, currencies and users. It manages third party, expenditure and receipt categories, as well as budgetary lines, financial years, and other informations that makes it quite adapted for associations
To install Grisbi in Ubuntu just type "sudo apt-get install grisbi" in the Terminal

Enjoy!


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Automounting Harddisk using a GUI Tool called "pysdm"

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PySDM is a Storage Device Manager that allows full customization of hard disk mountpoints without manually access to fstab. It also allows the creation of udev rules for dynamic configuration of storage devices.

To install pysdm just type this command in the terminal

sudo apt-get install pysdm

After the installation procedure type "sudo pysdm" in the terminal then enter your password and the GUI window will open.


Select your desire partition and click on Assistant then make sure that this option is marked.


Then close the program and restart the PC and check wether the partitions are now Automounted or not.

Enjoy!


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Installing Google Earth 5 on Ubuntu

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Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places, and share with others.

Installation of Google Earth is very easy on Ubuntu.

Download the GoogleEarthLinux.bin file from this link http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html

Then right-click on that file and select "Open with other Application" option.
Then use the option "Use a custom command" and type "sh" in it. {See the Screenshot below}


A GUI window will open which will guide you through the installation process.

A Shortcut is placed on your Desktop to start Google Earth and you can also start Google Earth from Applications->Internet->Google Earth {If the link to Google Earth is not available in the Internet menu then just reload the gnome-panel with "killall gnome-panel" command in the Terminal.}

Enjoy!


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Integrating MorseCode into the Ubuntu Terminal

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For those who don't know about morse code should read it about it from Wikipedia. Army, Pilot and Airtraffic Controllers are basically familiar with the morse code but even a normal person can learn it. It is kinda foreign english language and can maybe come in handy in remote situation for sending distress signal.

You can learn Morse Code from various websites like this one http://www.learnmorsecode.com/

It is a good language to learn it as a hobby and the best part is it is used only in English so even the Chinese or the Russions or the Arabs will talk to you in English if they are talking in Morse Code.

To install morse code in the terminal go to http://morseall.org/ and download the .deb file for Ubuntu and Debian and install it.
After installing Morseall you can start the morseall program by typing morseall in the terminal

Morseall allows people with limited mobility to use a computer.
Morseall is free software, distrubuted under a licese that guarantees future availability.

  • Morseall allows you to tap Morse Code on the mouse buttons.
  • You only need one button to use Morseall - but it is faster with two.
    The left button is for dots. Hold it longer for dashes.
    The right button is for dashes.
    Click the middle button to repeat keys.
  • You can use Morseall at any pace. Fast or slow.
  • Morseall lets you control the mouse with a special mouse mode!

Features of Morseall

  1. Anyone who can press a switch can use Morseall!
  2. You can go faster if you can control two or three buttons
  3. An Iambic Keyer is available for ultra-fast coding
  4. Audio feedback is given for each dot and dash
  5. Characters can be read aloud as they are typed for verification
  6. It works with a standard mouse! No custom hardware needed.
  7. On-line help is always visible for looking up codes
  8. Takes over the mouse so disabled users can maintain control.
  9. Code Timing is adjustable from within the program (seven dots=faster)
  10. A Configuration file allows you to set defaults (/etc/morseall.conf)
  11. A Reset feature helps users recover if the terminal gets stuck
  12. Visual feedback on your morse code timing as you key it
  13. Morseall is Free Software, Licensed under the GNU GPL
Enjoy!


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Various Nautilus Addons

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In one of my previous posts I have written about "nautilus-open-terminal" which let you open terminal wherever you want but there are many other Nautilus addons which can make our life a little bit easy. They are Nautilus-Image-Converter, Nautilus-Wallpaper and Nautilus-Actions.

Nautilus-Image-Converter : This package adds a "Resize Images..." menu item to the context menu of all images. This opens a dialog where you set the desired image size and file name. A click on "Resize" finally resizes the image(s) using ImageMagick's convert tool.

To install it just issue this command in the terminal "sudo apt-get install nautilus-image-converter"

Nautilus-Wallpaper : This is my favourite addon. nautilus-wallpaper is a Nautilus extension that adds the ability to set your desktop wallpaper from the context menu. Just right-click on your selected image and select "Set as Wallpaper" from the menu.

To install it just issue this command in the terminal "sudo apt-get install nautilus-wallpaper"

Nautilus-Actions : Nautilus-actions is an extensions for nautilus which allow to add arbitrary program to launch through the nautilus popup menu of selected files.

It allows you to define custom action or commands for certain types of files or files with names matching your description. Each time you right-click on one or several selected files in nautilus, nautilus-actions will look at its configured actions to see if a program has been setup for this selection. If it is the case, it will add an item in the menu that allow you to execute the program on the selected files.

To install it just issue this command in the terminal "sudo apt-get install nautilus-actions"


Enjoy!


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Monitor your Ubuntu's performance with Bootchart

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Bootchart is a tool for performance analysis and visualization of the Linux boot process. Resource utilization and process information are collected during the boot process and are later rendered in a PNG, SVG or EPS encoded chart.

Bootchart provides a shell script to be run by the kernel in the init phase. The script will run in background and collect process information, CPU statistics and disk usage statistics from the /proc file system. The performance data are stored in memory and are written to disk once the boot process completes.

To install Bootchart fire up your terminal and run this command

sudo apt-get install bootchart

The bootchart result is saved as an image after every boot process of your system and the image are saved in /var/log/bootchart/

Go into that folder after rebooting your PC to see how was your system's booting performance. How many seconds it took to boot?

Mine take around 30 seconds to boot.

This app will help you to keep an eye on your Ubuntu's performances every now and then.

Enjoy!


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Right-click option to "Open in Terminal"

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Sometimes we need to open a Terminal in a hurry at a particular location and the easier way to do is to add a "Open in Terminal" option in the right-click menu.

For doing that we have to run this command in the terminal.

sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal

Now whenever we right-click on or in the folder or on the desktop we will get the option "Open in Terminal" in the menu and we can open the terminal.

Restart Gnome for the changes to take effect.


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How to do a Clean Install of Ubuntu 9.04

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I found a great video on youtube.com about installing Ubuntu along with Vista. It will be a dual boot where one can choose while booting the system wether he wants to go in Vista or Ubuntu. This video is created by a youtube user called CoverlessTech


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Upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 {My Review}

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This was the first time I did an upgrade from one version to another version of Ubuntu instead of doing a clean install. I did this so that I don't have to reinstall all the necessary softwares which I normally do after the clean install also I was having no intention to try the new Ext4 filesystem which Ubuntu 9.04 was having as an option since I heard it is not entirely stable and still have some bugs.

So I got the notification from the Update Manager about the availability of an upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04. Here is the Screenshot.


So I click on the upgrade button to do the upgrade and the upgrading process begins.


For some odd reason the downloading of the files from the Internet was very slow maybe because many users were upgrading at the same time. Anyways it took me nearly 12 hours to do the complete upgrade but I was patient since I started the upgrade process at night  around 8 o'clock and after a couple of hours I went to sleep and in the morning at 8 o'clock the process was almost complete. After the process I restarted the PC as I was instructed and as soon as I restarted the PC I got this error.


But this error was not getting in my way and I was able to explore and operate the new Ubuntu 9.04 without any problem at all. After doing a search for a while on google I found the way to eliminate this error. I run this command on the Terminal 

sudo aptitude reinstall xkb-data

And the error was gone.

Conclusion : The Upgrade was a great sucess on my PC and its been a couple of days now since I did the Upgrade and every thing is working as smooth as ever without any problems whatsoever.


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