Peter

I Ubunti 10.04 valde man att flytta knapparna i fönstrena från höger till vänster. Varför man valde detta kan alltid diskuteras men det var tydligen för att underlätta då vi i västvärlden läser från vänster till höger. Då man tyvärr är van vid att hitta knapparna uppe till höger så blir man förvirrad varje gång som man skall klicka på dem. Då jag använder windows på jobbet 8 timmar om dagen och där sitter de till höger så lär man nog inte i första taget vänja sig att hitta knapprna till vänster.

Jag har därför valt att flytta tillbaka knapparna till höger. Det finns två sätt att göra det på och det är via det grafiska gränssnittet eller via kommandoraden. Jag tycker det är enklara att göra det via kommandoraden.

1. Öppna ett terminalfönster (shell).
2. Skriv ut de aktuella inställningarna.

   ~$ gconftool-2 --get "/apps/metacity/general/button_layout"
   close,minimize,maximize:
   

3. Ändra nu inställningarna så knapparna flyttas från vänster till höger. Jag lägger även till en meny-knapp till vänster.

   ~$ gconftool-2 --set "/apps/metacity/general/button_layout" --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close"
   

Har kört Linux på min privata laptop i några år. Skall man vara riktigt petig så är det Ubuntu som är den distribution som jag använder. Har hela tiden följt med på uppgraderingarna som skett och jag måste säga att det har fungerat väldigt bra att uppgradera. Som bootloader används Grub som uppgraderas till version 2.0 i och med version 9.10 i Ubuntu. Ubuntu har dock valt att inte uppgradera booloadern automatiskt vid uppgradering av operativsystem utan detta måste göras manuellt. Bestämde mig idag för at göra uppgraderingen av Grub från version .097 till 2.0. Detta var busenkelt att göra för det vara bara att följa instruktionerna i Upgrading to GRUB 2 From GRUB

Today I enabled 2-step verification in Google Apps. This means that if you want to you can use 2 factor authentication when logging in to Google Apps services such as GMail. You can’t force your users to use 2-step verification, they must opt-in themselves.

Anyway, I did opt-in with my account and downloaded the Google Authenticator to my Android that is used for generating codes. It all work well and now I’m using 2-factor authentication for my Google account.

When you want to opt-in for 2-factor authentication you can follow this step by step instruction that is available at Google.

I decided to move my 21″ monitor from my desktop computer to my laptop that runs Ubuntu. Since I have a DVI interface on my monitor and a HDMI interface on my laptop I had to buy a adapter. I bought one at Clas Olson and it worked perfectly.

Ok, now I had to switch my primary monitor so my external monitor holds the panels instead of the built in monitor that is the default monitor. After a quick google I found this perfect blog post that describes the problem and has a nice solution. Kudos to you Andrew.

First we have to create a shell script.

#!/bin/bash
# Author: Andrew Martin
# Credit: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1309247
echo "Enter the primary display from the following:" # prompt for the display
xrandr --prop | grep "[^dis]connected" | cut --delimiter=" " -f1 # query connected monitors
read choice # read the users's choice of monitor
xrandr --output $choice --primary # set the primary monitor

Save it with the name monitor-switcher.sh.
Make the script executable with ‘chmod +x monitor-switcher.sh. Now it’s time to run the script.

~$ ./monitor-switcher.sh
Enter the primary display from the following:
LVDS
DFP1
DFP1

As you can see I choose the DFP1 as my primary monitor.

Done.

Now and then I need to find out for how long the server has been running. And it’s easy.

Linux
Just run the command uptime

Windows
Just run the command net statistics server

Bought 2 new 1.5TB hard drives in the US and they are now installed in my NAS. How easy it was to upgrade, replace disk #1and repair and then replace disk #2 and repair, DONE. I just love my Sonology

Ok, I had problems with my old router so I decided to buy a new one. Didn’t I have warranty left on my old router? I couldn’t remember when I bought it so I had to search for my invoice. I know I bought it in an on-line store but didn’t remember which one and when. I found the invoice in my mailbox and it was InWarehouse and I bought it the 10th of June 2008. I had read on D-Link’s homepage that the warranty time was 2 years. ahhhhh, I missed the warranty time with 2 days…….. Ok, no good to cry over that so I bought a new one today.

The new router, also a DIR-655, is installed and seems to work perfectly. Before I installed the new one I saved my configuration from the old router so I just had to restore it on the new router. Do you think it worked? Of course not. Don’t ask me why, probably because the old firmware version was 1.30 and the new one was 1.31. Thank you D-Link! Since the old router still worked a could easily have it side by side.

When I told Erica later today that we bought the TV, my NAS and her computer at the same time she said it could not have been in June because she remembered it was in autumn some time. When looking at the invoice a second time it was 06-10-2008, 6th of October 2008. Great, I still have warrant left so now I have two routers

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The last couple of days my broadband connection has gone up and down. I have a D-Link DIR-655 that has worked perfectly until a couple of days ago. It seems to reboot itself now and then and it makes the whole family go crazy. I have tried to upgrade to the latest firmware and to change a few settings but with no luck. Suppose it’s time to buy a new one?

If you have any suggestions how to fix this or can give me a recommendation, just post a comment.

I finally got an invite to the new streaming service Rdio. I was invited by Refe Tuma Creative Deconstruction (:-)).

Ok, time to evaluate and compare it with Spotify.

Update, I have no invites left.

/Peter

Google Wave is finally available in Google Apps. Google has promised to release other services such as Reader, Picasa etc. in Google Apps.