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Activar Transparencias en Compiz

Enrique De la Rosa — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:48:48 +0000

Para activar las transparencias de los menus y ventanas vamos al configurador de Compiz: Sistema > Preferencias > Administrador de Opciones CompizConfig , seleccionamos “Opciones Generales” y dentro de ahi, la pestaña “Opacity Settings“. En esa ventana añadimos las cadenas siguientes:

y les damos un valor de opacity de 80, o el valor que queramos (usando el deslizador). Debe quedar algo asi:
Guardamos los cambios y de manera inmediata deberiamos apreciar los cambios. Al colocar una ventana sobre otra se transparenta la ventana inferior, al igual que con los menus.
Observa p.ej la imagen que encabeza el articulo y podras apreciar alguna de las transparencias.

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Let off The top Gulp down Tautologies!

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The Complete in relation to(Predicted) Days gone by

deborahrenata — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:28:43 +0000

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Script: commenta righe doppie

unicatout — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:20:10 +0000

Premessa

Frequentando il forum italiano di ubuntu, succede spesso di incontrare utenti che chiedono aiuto alla comunità per implementare uno script in modo da poter automatizzare un determinato processo. Nel caso specifico veniva richiesta la possibilità di individuare e cancellare le righe doppie in uno script:

Ciao,
ho uno script (abbastanza lungo) e la necessità di verificare se questo contiene righe uguali. Come potrei fare?

Questa volta, siccome avevo un po di tempo libero da investire, ho deciso di rendermi utile fornendo il mio contributo alla comunità di Ubuntu in generale ed all'utente autore della richiesta in modo particolare; quindi mi sono rimesso a studiacchiare la Guida avanzata di scripting Bash ed ho provato a dare una soluzione al quesito sollevato.

Note:

In realtà lo script non cancella le righe doppie, ma le commenta solamente; questo perchè mi sembrava che dal punto di vista stilistico fosse più elegante ed inoltre è una soluzione molto meno drastica.

Lo script

#!/bin/bash

# Data : 25-07-2008
# Nome script: crd.sh
# Descrizione: commenta le righe doppie presenti in un file (escluso la prima trovata)
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

# input utente
# faccio inserire all'utente il percorso e nome
# dei files (da elaborare e modificato).
clear
while [[ $pathFileOrig = "" ]]; do
echo -n "Digita il percorso seguito dal nome del file da elaborare: "
read pathFileOrig
done
while [[ $pathFileMod = "" ]]; do
echo -n "Digita il percorso seguito dal nome del file modificato: "
read pathFileMod
done

# leggo quante righe ha il file e mi salvo il
# numero ottenuto nella variabile "tr"
tr=`wc -l $pathFileOrig | awk '{ print $1 }'`

# inserisco il file originale in un array
# commentando le righe doppie successive
# alla prima trovata.
let i=1
let z=1
let j=1
while read riga
do
for j in `seq 1 $z`;do
if [ $i = "1" ]
then
array[i]=$riga
elif [[ $riga = "${array[j]}" ]]
then #se uguale
array[i]='# '$riga
break
else #se diverso
array[i]=$riga
fi
done
let i=i+1
let z=i-1
done < $pathFileOrig

# traferisco i dati presenti nell'array
# nel file "pathFileMod"
for u in `seq 1 $tr`
do
echo ${array[u]} >> $pathFileMod
done

Purtoppo l'indetazione è quello che è...

Detenido doctor por poner webcam en el labavo de su consulta

frikardo — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:00:55 +0000

Altos dirigentes de ERC con los que mantiene una gran amistad, deportistas de elite y personajes famosos son habituales de la consulta que tiene en Barcelona Jordi I. P., un reconocido especialista en nutrición y medicina deportiva.

Lo que todos ellos desconocen es que la semana pasada fue detenido por los Mossos d'Esquadra por instalar una webcam en el lavabo del centro, detrás de un radiador y apuntando directamente a la taza del váter.

La Policía catalana está analizando los ordenadores que este facultativo tenía en la consulta, quien fue puesto en libertad y cuya causa ya está en manos de un juez de la ciudad. EL arrestado ha asegurado que instaló la cámara porque sospechaba que la señora de la limpieza le robaba.

Por las instalaciones que el sospechoso tiene en Barcelona han pasado numerosos personajes conocidos, entre los que figura el presidente de Esquerra, Joan Puigcercós, el también republicano Xavier Vendrell, la hermana del futbolista Ronaldinho o el motorista Jorge Lorenzo.

Los hechos que motivaron la captura de este hombre, que se presentó en comisaría de forma voluntaria antes de ser detenido, se produjeron la semana pasada cuando una trabajadora se encontraba en el lavabo -mixto y utilizado tanto por los empleados y los clientes-.

La mujer vio un extraño cable que sobresalía de detrás de un radiador y, estirando, descubrió una suerte de webcam que apuntaba directamente a la taza del inodoro. Cámara en mano, acudió a toda prisa a denunciar los hechos.

Fuentes policiales señalaron ayer que el sospechoso se percató de lo sucedido e intentó contactar por todos los medios con la empleada.

Puesto en libertad

Tras tomarle declaración, los agentes de los Mossos d'Esquadra lo pusieron en libertad, ya que tiene domicilio conocido y no existe riesgo de fuga. La Policía catalana lo detuvo por un delito contra la intimidad, que está penado con condenas de uno a cuatro años de prisión, que podrían aumentar sensiblemente si se demostrara que el facultativo, además de grabar imágenes, las hubiera reproducido o hubiera hecho alguna clase de uso de ellas.

Este facultativo, que ha escrito numerosos libros sobre medicina, posee diversos centros médicos Cimen para la prevención del envejecimiento, medicina predictiva, nutrición y ejercicio.

Descarga videos de YouTube en Ubuntu

Un Mundo Libre — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:27:29 +0000

Existe una pequeña utilidad para consola denominada youtube-dl, de apenas 15 KB, que facilitará el hecho de descargarse vídeos desde YouTube (por nostalgia o las razones que se quieran).

El programa se encuentra en los repositorios universe y su instalación es muy sencilla, al igaul que la manera de utilizarlo.

Para instalarlo simplemente teclea en consola
sudo apt-get install youtube-dl

En cuanto a la manera de usarlo se trata simplemente de escribir el nombre del programa seguido de la URL en la que está ubicado el video, de esta manera:

youtube-dl “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejemplo”

y el programa guardará un archivo ejemplo.flv en tu ordenador.

Si escribís en consola youtube-dl -h os aparecerán las diferentes opciones de personalización del programa, como la manera de escribir usuario y contraseña de YouTube, imprescindible para descargaros vídeos protegidos bajo la etiqueta contenido para adultos.

Leído en Ubuntu Geek

Noticias relacionadas:
LastTube: vídeos musicales a la carta
Buscar en YouTube desde Konqueror

Activar transparencias en Compiz

superpiwi — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:32:19 +0000

Relacionada con la entrada: 30 temas para Gnome, en referencia a las transparencias del tema BlueSpace. En las instrucciones de esa pagina comentaban como poner transparencias, pero por si no quedara claro he preferido escribir este post.

Primero, necesitas tener Compiz instalado y activado. Si no lo tienes, puede que esto te sirva.

Ahora para activar las transparencias de los menus y ventanas vamos al configurador de Compiz: Sistema > Preferencias > Administrador de Opciones CompizConfig , seleccionamos "Opciones Generales" y dentro de ahi, la pestaña "Opacity Settings". En esa ventana añadimos las cadenas siguientes:

ToolTip | Menu | PopupMenu | DropdownMenu

y les damos un valor de opacity de 90, o el valor que queramos (usando el deslizador). Debe quedar algo asi:

Guardamos los cambios y de manera inmediata deberiamos apreciar los cambios. Al colocar una ventana sobre otra se transparenta la ventana inferior, al igual que con los menus.
Observa p.ej la imagen que encabeza el articulo y podras apreciar alguna de las transparencias.

Por cierto este menu es una modificacion del menu Vista que puedes descargar desde aqui. Lo descomprimes y tiene un shell script para instalar o desinstalar el menu Vista sobre Gnome. al instalarlo ya puedes añadirlo como un applet mas a la barra del panel:

Que lo transparentes bien!!!

(Nota: El tema usado es Ubuntu Studio)

Enlace | Transparencias con Compiz

Navigare anonimamente con Linux sul Web grazie a Tor

LucAndrea — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:30:41 +0000

Avete paura di diffondere la vostra identità a sconosciuti sul Web? Arriva in vostro aiuto Tor, il celebre programma di navigazione anonima.

La sua installazione è facile e permette di raggiungere un buon livello di anonimato; non sarete inoltre costretti ad utilizzare un determinato programma per navigare sul Web, ma sarà sufficiente installare un'estensione in Mozilla Firefox per poter navigare in modo sicuro tramite il proprio browser (...sempre che usiate Firefox!).

Per installarlo è sufficiente scaricare i pacchetti dai repository della propria distribuzione. Per esempio, se utilizzate Ubuntu dovrete lanciare da terminale (Applicazioni > Accessori > Terminale) il comando

sudo apt-get install tor

Ovviamente esso varia a seconda della distribuzione in uso (ad esempio, su Arch Linux il comando appropriato è sudo pacman -S tor).

Una volta completata l'installazione, apriamo Mozilla Firefox e rechiamoci alla pagina https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefox/addon/2275 per installare l'estensione Torbutton. Questa estensione aggiungerà un bottone (sulla barra di stato, in basso a destra) grazie al quale potrete attivare o disattivare la protezione a piacimento.

Per approfondire l'argomento, il sito di Tor è un buon punto di partenza (http://www.torproject.org/).

Virtual Infrastructure Client

dermis — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:27:47 +0000

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Using my ubuntu hardy, i run
wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks sh winetricks corefonts dotnet20
and successfully installed Virtual Infrastructure Client 2.5 using wine 1.1.0

i got this error when i tried to login into my ESX server

An SSL error occured.

anyone known how to fix this? please share with me

OS!!!!!

mrrk — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:07:00 +0000

Which OS does this computer has???? Its always a big question that you face while you purchase a computer.

Most of the companies have made tie up with the Microsoft and is bringing out their product with windows preinstalled.. but a good configured system with windows installed is little bit beyond the reach of a common man.. here my question is Do you really need Windows.??? Most of you say yes i want windows because thats the only thing i know. just pause and think have you ever tried to check what Linux is all about or if something like Mac is there in market.. I'm sure most of those using pirated windows on their computer know there is something by the name linux but has never tried to check what it is because 10 years back someone checked it and said it is a geeks thing.. my simple advice try checking out a computer with ubuntu live cd.. its simply great if you need all the features like multimedia in it try fedora.. just see how gr8 it is and ofcourse the key word.. it is free... yo can get a copy of it from anyone who has it already. Free dosent mean it is sub-standard. Free means it gets improved every second. this is something unlike from windows. they make you pay and give you the bad experience. So why not go for more amazing, feature filled linux instead of Windows.. and yeah say good bye to virus along with windows.

Rix opens up

Rix — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:53:52 +0000

A few months back, my friend Chad inspired me with a post describing his foray into the world of open source. I've been a fan of open source for a while. I dabbled in OpenOffice.org, an open source office suite with applications that give MS Office a run for its money -- partly by not even charging any money. I have even administered and used a lot of applications that run on LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). I blog in on a WordPress.com platform, administer a SMF forum and a MediaWiki field guide, and developed a blog for a friend using WordPress.org. In all that, though, I never learned anything about Linux itself since all that fun stuff happened in the background on whatever served provider I used.

So when I saw Chad's blog and that he had actually installed and used (at times, exclusively) Linux as an operating system for his day-to-day computing needs, it excited me. As much as I appreciated the freedom of not having to pay money for great software, the thought of getting away with not even having to pay for Windows as an operating system blew my mind. Could I find complete freedom from the chains of the corporate computing world?

Chad's blog actually made it sound easy. And even better, it sounded like you could maybe even revive older hardware with this Linux stuff and make it run better than it ever did with Windows.

[I] recently created what my coworkers are calling the “Ubuntu Lounge”, a computer room on the third floor of our library where I’ve set up four legacy machines to run Xubuntu and Fluxbuntu.

Okay, Chad didn't say specifically in his blog that he made it run better than it ever did with Windows, but after researching these strange and mystical names (Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Fluxbuntu) I started to get the idea that this magical reviving might be possible.

You see, I've had this little HP laptop that I bought back in 2001 that had died of a virus likely downloaded through Kazaa and compounded by a chronic case of Windows ME. To make things worse, the restore disks that I had gotten with the laptop wouldn't work. If I wanted to ever use the thing again, I would have to either find a Windows ME install disk to use with the license I already had, or I would have to shell out money for a Windows XP license. I remember at one time, Chad had actually mentioned that I should look into putting Linux on it, but at the time those happy-go-lucky distributions like Ubuntu never turned up on my radar.

Also, I work at a non-profit that doesn't always have the money to upgrade its hardware, so the thought of using Linux to bring old hardware back to life -- without having to pay for any license fees -- really appealed to me.

After poking around at the different distros on the plate, I decided to try putting Xubuntu on a machine at work that had pretty much stopped limping along in XP. I downloaded the live CD. What a concept, by the way, letting you try out a whole operating system from a CD that doesn't even have to install a single file on your hard drive. After trying it out, I decided to go ahead and install the full version. And guess what -- I liked it.

It's probably because I started out in Xubuntu's XFCE window manager that I still gravitate to it over the more popular KDE and Gnome environments. But I also love it as a great middle ground: not as weighty as KDE and Gnome, but it's user friendliness is so much better than Fluxbox.

Let me take a moment to explain some of these crazy words to the uninitiated. I know they sound confusing.

Linux is the kernel of the system. It's what lets the hardware and software talk to each other. A distribution (or distro) is all the goodies on top of the kernel that make it into something that you can turn on and run the way you expect a computer to do. The distro packages the kernel together with a window manager (which, imagine that, manages your window environment) and a smattering of software that works with the window manager.

Ubuntu is the name of one of the most popular distros. It packages the Gnome window manager (one of the most popular wm's) with a ton of popular Gnome-based software.
Kubuntu is a distro in the Ubuntu family that uses the KDE window manager (prettier and far more configurable than Gnome, but somehow less popular overall) with a bunch of KDE-based software.
The Xubuntu distro uses XFCE as its window manager and generally tries to get away with sofware that doesn't depend too much on the Gnome or KDE libraries.

The above three distros are all canonical distributions of the appropriately named orgnaization Canonical Ltd that engineers, supports and releases updates for them on a regular basis with fancy animal names like Dapper Drake, Edgy Eft, Feisty Fawn, Gutsy Gibbon, and most recently, Hardy Heron.

The Fluxbuntu distro is a non-canonical and non-Canonical distribution that combines the reliability of the Ubuntu base with the ultra-light-weight Fluxbox window manager.

So is all that as clear as mud now? Good. Don't worry, you'll catch on. The beauty of it is that you can install all of the window managers on the same computer and run whichever one you want whenever you log on to your computer. The computer I'm typing on right now came with Vista installed, but I shrunk down the partition and installed Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu all together on a separate partition. And you don't necessarily have to install a whole -buntu just to run the software that comes with that distribution. For instance if you like Kubuntu's Amarok music player better than Ubuntu's Rhythmbox, you can have it. Just use your fancy Synaptic Package Manager to install the program, and it will check to make sure that you have all the libraries you need in order to make it work.

If this sounds like a bunch of nerdy jargon and doesn't make much sense, don't worry. Two months ago I wouldn't have understood what I'm talking about. So, in no time, you too can be as nerdy of a noob as me. I pretty much use Xubuntu exclusively at work and at home. If I can do it, then so can you. I can even recommend some required viewing so that when you take the nerd test you'll pass with flying colors. You do know the difference between a TARDIS and a DRADIS, right? I mean, you could potentially catch a TARDIS on the DRADIS, but you're not too likely to see a DRADIS on a TARDIS. And you know that Serenity is in Firefly and is a Firefly at the same time, right? Beats. Bears. Battlestar Galactica. I'm off to Tashi Station to pick up some power converters. Leggy Blonde, goodbye.

Foxconn - The Art Of Sabotage!

lele85 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:44:12 +0000

Credo che dopo questa storia eviterò di comprare Hardware da questi signori.

Se avete dubbi sulla gamma di prodotti DA NON COMPRARE se volete usarli con linux andate direttamente sul sito del produttore.

Se come me volete far saper all'azienda cosa pensate del loro operato andate QUI e fatevi sentire.

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Howto: Use xplanet for a desktop weather map

K.Mandla — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:56:48 +0000

I found xplanet the other day because ... well, I forget why. But I tinkered with it yesterday and came up with a fairly interesting use for it. (Actually I didn't really come up with it. It's more or less hinted at on the xplanet home page, but I'll put all the steps here for you.)

That's a satellite cloud map for the northeastern part of the globe, around 6 p.m. on Friday, July 25. The cloud patterns were superimposed on on the globe by xplanet, which oriented itself so Tokyo is directly at the center. I have enough of an angle on the planet that I can see weather coming in from China and the Koreas, and typhoon systems coming up from the Phillippines and Taiwan, which is important this time of year.

The night-and-day shadow is updated every 30 minutes, and the cloud map refreshes every three hours and on each boot. The rendering itself is somewhat processor intensive, but aside from that, the system drag is dependent on how often you want the image to update.

Since xplanet comes with a standard earth map for night and day, the entire setup really only relies on your settings. Trigger xplanet like this:

xplanet -latitude 40 -longitude 139 -radius 75 -quality 100 -geometry 1600x1200 -fork -wait 1800 -config config

The latitude and longitude numbers should be fairly obvious -- those are the general coordinates for Tokyo. Replace those with the location you prefer.

The radius command zooms the map in close enough to give a better angle on my location. The setting is generally 50, which is the distance from the top of the screen to the center. In other words, the radius of the planet is 50 percent of the height of the screen. Setting it to more causes part of the planet to be cut off, like in the screenshot. Mess with that and see what you like.

Quality is a quality setting of course, and roughly corresponds to JPEG compression settings, like in the GIMP. I set it at 100 just because I happen to like my wallpaper to have some detail.

Geometry matches the screen dimensions. I set that because I don't care to have an outsized image rendered, then resized to fit the screen. Might as well do it all in one step.

The wait command tells xplanet to pause for 1800 seconds -- 30 minutes, give or take. I see no point in rerendering the map any more frequently than that. -fork sends it to a background process, independent of a terminal. Finally, the config file, where some more important settings lie.

In Crux, the default configuration file is at /usr/share/xplanet/config, which you can copy to ~/.xplanet/ and modify from there. Here's the only line I changed:

cloud_map=/home/kmandla/.xplanet/clouds_2048.jpg

There's plenty more in there you can change; just as an example, uncommenting the marker file setting for earth gives you city labels everywhere on your planet.

So there's only one other small trick that needs to be set, and that's a fresh cloud map. The xplanet home page talks at length about cloud maps (and maps for other planets too), but the long and short of it is this Python script and this command:

python download_clouds.py /home/kmandla/.xplanet/clouds_2048.jpg

The script searches mirrors for a fresh map, and sends it to the .xplanet/ directory. The config file passes it to the xplanet process, and the entire trick is complete.

Almost. That map is refreshed every three hours, so while it's convenient to rerender the globe, we'll need a fresh cloud map every now and again. The obvious way to solve that problem is with cron, and if you decide you want to go that route, I leave it to you to set it up. It doesn't take much effort.

I decided to leave that out, only because I don't usually have the machine on for much longer than an hour or so without rebooting -- or it's on overnight, and I don't need to refresh it. Take your pick.

Adding both of those commands, in sequence, to your .xinitrc file gives you a fresh weather map at each X startup (or boot). Of course, you might have already sniffed out a little problem.

There's a considerable delay between when X starts, and when the first map appears on the background. Of course, that delay is going to depend on the settings and your system speed; on mine it's about ten seconds or so.

Which means you'll be staring at the awful default hash pattern for a little while. I haven't actually bothered to fix this yet, but my suggestion is to rewrite the xplanet command to output the image to a file instead of directly to the window.

Then you can use something like feh to actually paint the image to the background, and additionally you can trigger feh on startup to put up the old map, and let xplanet draw a new one. When it's done, trigger feh again, this time to apply the new image.

That's about it. There are other ways and other applications that can do this, but xplanet is really very cool; it does a lot more than just draw wimpy weather maps. Take the time to learn all the ins and outs and you'll be making some very cool background images. Check the xplanet home page for some more screenshots.

Cambiar los servidores DNS y evitar que se modifiquen

superpiwi — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:50:56 +0000

El otro dia me quede sin internet, Y empece como Enjuto Mojamuto: !!Nooooo!!Interneeeeee!¿donde estas?.
Pero no, no me habia quedado sin internet, lo que me habia pasado es que los servidores DNS estaban fallando. Eso a priori, ni piensas en ello.

Los servidores DNS son los encargados de resolver los nombres de dominio por las IPs correspondientes. Tu cuando en tu navegador pones por ejemplo: "www.google.com", realmente ese nombre es "traducido" por tus servidores DNS a una direccion IP: (208.69.34.231).

Como los servidores DNS me estaban fallando, cuando ponia cualquier direccion en el navegador me daba un error de "Pagina no encontrada", pero si ponia la IP en vez del nombre, si que podia entrar. Claro, que no me iba a aprender de memoria las direcciones IP de los sitios que visito, asi que decidi resolver la situacion.

Es bueno de todas formas que guardes una direccion IP de algun sitio (p.ej la de Google), asi si alguna vez te quedas sin conexion, puedes comprobar facilmente si es por culpa de la resolucion de nombres DNS, o de algun otro motivo. El comando "ping" te dira si puedes llegar o no a la maquina destino:

$ ping 208.69.34.231

Ahora la verdad, yo queria cambiar los servidores DNS porque estos ultimos dias se descubrio una vulnerabilidad muy grave en los servidores DNS de los principales proveedores que podria hacer que un hacker p.ej falseara la pagina de entrada a tu banco online y tu te conectaras creyendo que la conexion es segura, mientras el te "desvalija" o te roba tus datos bancarios.
Puedes comprobar si tus servidores DNS son seguros, ejecutando el chequeo de la siguiente pagina. Puedes encontrar mas informacion acerca de la vulnerabilidad DNS en el siguiente enlace.

Si nuestros servidores DNS son seguros, no hace falta cambiarlos, a menos por ejemplo que tengas otros que sepas que resuelven el nombre mas rapidamente y tal vez te interese cambiarlos para conseguir algo mas de velocidad. Si buscas en Google, podras encontrar las direcciones IP de muchos servidores DNS gratuitos (otra vez, ten cuidado con los que usas, no vayan a ser fiables).

Yo he preferido cambiar mis servidores por los de OpenDNS: cuyas IPs son 208.67.222.222 y 208.67.220.220. Estos servidores son seguros y no se ven afectados por la vulnerabilidad anteriormente comentada. Generalmente suele haber 2 servidores: uno primario y otro secundario. El primario es el principal y el secundario se usa en caso de que el primario falle.

Para cambiar los servidores DNS que usas vete a Sistema > Administracion > Red. Seleccionas tu conexion y te vas a la pestaña "DNS", ahi puedes añadir/eliminar las direcciones IP de los servidores DNS que quieras utilizar.

Esta misma informacion se guarda en el fichero /etc/resolv.conf que si editas como root, puedes modificar. Un ejemplo: aqui mi fichero resolv.conf:

search local.lan nameserver 208.67.222.222 nameserver 208.67.220.220

Sin embargo tenia un problema, cada que vez que reiniciaba la conexion a internet, se me sobreescribia este fichero con los DNS antiguos (aquellos que tu proveedor te devuelve de manera automatica cuando te conectas). He conseguido solucionarlo (temporalmente) ejecutando el tip que comentan en esta pagina. No se si habra una forma mas "elegante" de evitar que te cambien los DNS. La idea es modificar el fichero resolv.conf con los dns que quieras usar y despues proteger el archivo para evitar que sea modificado. Para proteger el archivo basta con ejecutar:

$ sudo chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

Y voila, ya tenemos resolucion de nombres mediante otros servidores. En el caso de España, aqui tienes una lista de los DNS de las principales operadoras y de los tiempos que tardan en resolver.

Actualizacion | Me respondo a mi mismo, para los que tengamos router, podemos entrar en la configuracion del router (p.ej en mi caso via web es http://192.168.1.1) y modificar los parametros de servidores DNS a usar en el apartado correspondiente.

Actualizacion | Gracias a Marcos por el comentario. En el siguiente enlace cuentan como evitar perder los DNS modificados y que sean sobreescritos:

$ sudo cp /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.auto $ sudo gedit /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf # append the following line to the document prepend domain-name-servers 208.67.222.222,208.67.220.220; # save and exit $ sudo ifdown eth0 && sudo ifup eth0

A proposito di Gnome

polimorfico — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:42:43 +0000

Da quando uso linux ho usato (come DE) XFCE (che trovo fantastico ma un po limitato e poco sviluppato), KDE che uso tutt'ora.

Non ho mai provato Gnome senza una vera ragione. Ho deciso di riparare ha questa mancanza per cui, in una macchina virtuale, sto disinstallando kubuntu-desktop-kde4 e installando ubuntu-desktop tramite adept, ha tutti una chance.

A breve le mie impressioni.

Aria, un gestor de descargas para Linux

mainelcc — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:42:39 +0000

Muchos habrán tenido el problema al migrar de windows a ubuntu de no tener un gestor de descargas compatible con Flashgot en Firefox. Pues quédense tranquilo, existe Aria Download Manager, un rápido gestor de descargas para Linux.

Primero, tenemos que instalar el programa, para eso, vamos a la consola (o buscamos el programa en el Gestor de paquetes Synaptic) y tipeamos:

apt-get install aria

Luego, vamos a Aplicaciones - > Internet -> Aria Download Manager. Para mejorar notáblemente la velocidad de descarga, es recomendable habilitar la división de las descargas en partes, para eso, hacemos click en este pequeño iconito (el penúltimo de la barra) y nos dirije a las opciones por defecto de cada nueva descarga. Entramos a la solapa Descarga 1 y subimos "Dividir archivo" a 10 (o a cuánto se desee).

Como último paso opcional, recomiendo instalar el plugin Flashgot para Firefox. Este plugin permite que se inicien las descargas con Aria (o cualquier otro gestor de descargas) de forma directa, enviar múltiples enlaces al gestor, entre otras funciones.

Para terminar, como no podía faltar, screenshots del programa en Ubuntu:

GdMap visualiza el espacio.

Nico — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:23:34 +0000

GdMap es una herramienta que permite visualizar el espacio de disco.Alguna vez se preguntó por qué su disco duro está lleno o que directorios y archivos se llevan la mayoría del espacio?.GdMap contesta esas preguntas con rapidez.GdMap muestra directorios,discos duros completos [usb],etc....

How's Ubuntu Hardy Heron?

Abiyasa — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:11:51 +0000

I just installed Hardy Heron on my laptop (which I'm using right now to write on this blog.)

Well, everything is looking good!:D I love the theme, I love the pricing (free of charge, woohoo!!!), compiz-fusion is just awesome. Updates are overwhelming, which is good.

But it seems that I can't set my network easily (xp was EASY!). Well, since I'm new to Linux/Unix, I think I just have to learn!

I'm all open for tips and tricks for Ubuntu :D

Teach me! Onegaishimasu! :D:D

Far aprire a Firefox i risultati delle ricerche in una nuova pagina

aincy — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:05:28 +0000

In Firefox è presente un box di ricerca che permette di effettuare velocemente una ricerca con il motore di ricerca selezionata, che di default è Google. I risultati di questa verranno visualizzati nella scheda attiva. Firefox non permette di scegliere se aprire la pagina dei risultati in una nuova scheda.

Ecco che ci viene in aiuto il caro about:config. Digitiamo quest’ultimo nella barra degli indirizzi. Ora troviamo la stringa browser.search.openintab cambiamo il valore di questa da false a true e clicchiamo su Ok. Le modifiche dovrebbero essere immediate.

Proviamo ora ad effettuare una ricerca, et voilà se abbiamo fatto tutto bene i nostri risultati di ricerca d’ora in avanti verranno aperti in una nuova scheda.

Inoltre gli utenti che utilizzano la Google Toolbar potranno configurare questa opzione mediante le impostazioni di quest’ultima e decidere di sostituire il box di ricerca di Firefox con la Google Toolbar.

Fonte Geekissimo.com

Foxconn sabotea sus Bios para que fallen con Linux

superpiwi — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:51:43 +0000

¿Miedo a Linux? ¿Odio? ¿Ganas de fastidiar?. Me he quedado de piedra leyendo esta noticia. Por lo visto Foxconn sabotea deliberadamente sus Bios para que den problemas y no funcionen correctamente cuando son usadas en Linux.

Esto se desprende a partir de los comentarios de un usuario.Estuvo analizando la tabla de la BIOS y comprobo que en funcion del sistema operativo almacenaba un valor diferente. Los pasos:

Coger el compilador Intel de BIOS ACPI source:

$ sudo apt-get install iasl

Volcar la tabla DSDT:

sudo cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT > dsdt.dat

Desensamblarla:

iasl -d dsdt.dat

Editarla con gedit:

gedit dsdt.dsl

Y solucionar el Foxconn sabotaje:
Buscamos para ello el codigo que empieza con:

If (_OSI ("Windows 2000")) { Store (0x04, OSVR) } .... Else { If (MCTH (_OS, "Linux")) { Store (0x3, OSVR) }

Y cambiamos este ultimo por:

If (_OSI ("Linux")) { Store (Zero, OSVR) }

¿Que hace el sabotaje?
Pues funciones sencillas de la ACPI como son reiniciar, suspender o hibernar funcionen de manera incorrecta o den problemas de ejecucion.
Eso si. La propia empresa presume de cumplir las especificaciones ACPI y haber recibido una certificación de Microsoft. Es chocante que a dia de hoy te encuentres cosas asi...

P'a flipar!!!!

Noticia Original | Barrapunto

Conky en Wolvix [simple configuracion]

Nico — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:51:27 +0000

Screenshots en Guia de instalaciòn

[sourcecode language='xml']
# Conky sample configuration
#
# the list of variables has been removed from this file in favour
# of keeping the documentation more maintainable.
# Check http://conky.sf.net for an up-to-date-list.

# Edited by: Wolven

# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background
background no

# X font when Xft is disabled, you can pick one with program xfontsel
#font 5x7
#font 6x10
#font 7x13
#font 8x13
#font 9x15
#font *mintsmild.se*
#font -*-*-*-*-*-*-34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

# Use Xft?
use_xft yes

# Xft font when Xft is enabled
xftfont DejaVu Sans Mono:size=8

# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 0.8

# Print everything to stdout?
# out_to_console no

# MPD host/port
# mpd_host localhost
# mpd_port 6600
# mpd_password tinker_bell

# Print everything to console?
# out_to_console no

# mail spool
mail_spool $MAIL

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 2.0

# This is the number of times Conky will update before quitting.
# Set to zero to run forever.
total_run_times 0

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes

# If own_window is yes, you may use type normal, desktop or override
own_window_type normal

# Use pseudo transparency with own_window?
own_window_transparent yes

# If own_window_transparent is set to no, you can set the background colour here
own_window_colour hotpink

# If own_window is yes, these window manager hints may be used
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# Minimum size of text area
#minimum_size 180 5

# Draw shades?
draw_shades yes

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Draw borders around graphs
draw_graph_borders yes

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 8

# border margins
border_margin 4

# border width
border_width 1

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color white

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
#alignment top_right
alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right
#alignment none

# Gap between borders of screen and text
# same thing as passing -x at command line
gap_x 10
gap_y 46

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no

# number of cpu samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
cpu_avg_samples 2

# number of net samples to average
# set to 1 to disable averaging
net_avg_samples 2

# Force UTF8? note that UTF8 support required XFT
override_utf8_locale yes

# Add spaces to keep things from moving about? This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer yes

# mldonkey_hostname Hostname for mldonkey stuff, defaults to localhost
# mldonkey_port Mldonkey port, 4001 default
# mldonkey_login Mldonkey login, default none
# mldonkey_password Mldonkey password, default none

# boinc (seti) dir
# seti_dir /opt/seti

# Allow for the creation of at least this number of port monitors (if 0 or not set, default is 16)
#min_port_monitors 16

# Allow each port monitor to track at least this many connections (if 0 or not set, default is 256)
#min_port_monitor_connections 256

# none, xmms, bmp, audacious, infopipe (default is none)
#xmms_player audacious

# variable is given either in format $variable or in ${variable}. Latter
# allows characters right after the variable and must be used in network
# stuff because of an argument

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

TEXT
${color FFFFCC}CPU: ${color }$cpu% ${color D3D3D3}- ${color FFFFCC}MEM: ${color }$memperc% ${color D3D3D3}- ${color FFFFCC}File System: ${color }${fs_bar 8,64 /} ${color D3D3D3}- ${color FFFFCC}Upload: ${color }${upspeedgraph eth0 8,64 000000 ffffff} ${color D3D3D3}- ${color FFFFCC}Download: ${color }${downspeedgraph eth0 8,64 000000 ffffff}
${color FFFFCC}Audacious: ${color }${audacious_title}
[/sourcecode]

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server HAVP problems

primalcortex — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:57:15 +0000

I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server as a proxy/mail gateway, and I had a problem with apt-ge and havp.

It seems that every time I used apt-get it complained about some problem with havp:

Starting havp: Starting HAVP Version: 0.86
Could not create server (already running?)
Exiting..
invoke-rc.d: initscript havp, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing havp (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
havp
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

So what I've done was:

sudo bash

cd /etc/init.d

mv havp havp.old

apt-get upgrade

mv havp.old havp

and this cleared my apt-get errors.

Now it works.

Turn Your Ubuntu Hardy to Mac OSX Leopard

TheAlteredState — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:40:25 +0000

So I got sent an interesting link yesterday titled "Turn Your Ubuntu Hardy to Mac OSX Leopard". The guide was written by MAKETECHEASIER and can be found here. Now while it doesn't feature all the iApplications that you would get with your Mac OS X, it does a pretty impressive job in converting the visual appearance of your Linux PC into an Apple! I still haven't set up my spare PC with Ubuntu yet, so I can't test it really? But let me know if you come across any problems!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="304" caption="Ubuntu Before"][/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="304" caption="Ubuntu After"][/caption]

Letter to Electronic Frontier Foundation regarding Foxconn's damaged BIOS

Ryan — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:22:15 +0000

From: Ryan F.
To: action@eff.org
Subject: Foxconn motherboards sabotaging Linux ACPI

I am writing to inform you that Foxconn, one of the biggest manufacturers of computer motherboards is currently shipping boards with a BIOS that seeks out and attacks Linux with an intentionally broken DSDT table, this effectively cripples Linux's power management features, and makes it terribly annoying and crash prone, I've dissected part of their BIOS that proves this:

http://izanbardprince.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/foxconn-bios-sabotaging-linux-change-of-plans/

http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869249

I've already complained to the FTC and the Better Business Bureau over this, but I feel that backing the customer into the corner of using Windows, from a company that violates the user's trust is a horrible thing to do, if there is anything you can do to help in this matter, it would be greatly appreciated.

-Ryan F.