Category Archives: Ubuntu

Getting a headless connection to a server

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

I just learnt how to get a headless connection to a server before it has even booted. This gives access to LUKS and LVM, giving the oppurtunity to decrypt an encrypted hard drive. The solution was in this blog post. … Continue reading →

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Thunderbird with Lightning on Ubuntu

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

I’m trying out Thunderbird with Lightning as my calendar application, but for some reason Lightning did not show up under Add-ons in Thunderbird. Instead I installed it by using the xul-ext-lightning package. However, this ended up with all options in … Continue reading →

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Bookmarks in terminal

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

Today I found a great tool to ease the navigation in terminal, called apparix. It lets you bookmark a folder so that you easily can navigate to it just by typing to nameofbookmark To install apparix in Ubuntu, type sudo … Continue reading →

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Fixing the volume treshold and intervals in Ubuntu on Dell XPS M1330

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

So the new Ubuntu version is finally out and as with every other time I’ve been upgrading from one version of Ubuntu to a new one, I keep forgetting how to fix the sound issue on the Dell XPS M1330. … Continue reading →

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Spotify for Linux

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

Awesome news! Spotify is now finally available as a native client for Linux. I have no idea why I haven’t spotted this earlier, as it was already announced in July, but in any case it is finally here. Although they … Continue reading →

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Connect to your N900 while developing via usb

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

Sometimes it feels good to be a bit lazy and let your OS do that boring terminal-typing for you whenever you connect a new device. Continue reading →

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Why I’m not using Ubuntu One

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

Recently I’ve had some issues with my previous solution for synchronizing files between my computers. I used to have an SSH server which I placed all my files on, and usually I edited them directly on this server. Whenever needed … Continue reading →

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Fixing a bug with python-visual in Ubuntu Karmic

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

I was preparing to do some tasks in my physics course today, and experienced a rather annoying problem when attempting to use the python-visual package in Ubuntu. There seems to be a bug in Ubuntu Karmic which results in the … Continue reading →

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Mounting a Windows share folder in Ubuntu

Posted on June 9, 2009 by Svenn-Arne Dragly

Are you mounting your shared folder from a Windows network over and over again in Ubuntu?
Annoy yourself no more, here is the solution for permanent pleasure. Continue reading →

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