ubuntu Reflashing my LG Chromebase back to ChromeOS With a lot of effort (back then when not much was known) I flashed my LG Chromebase (22CV241) to use Coreboot and installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on it. For RDNZL 19 Mar 2020 • 5 min read
ubuntu Using cadaver to download files from webDAV My Ubuntu installation refuses to mount a particular webdave share. Using a share and GUI browser is for Windows users anyway. So I used cadaver instead! $ sudo apt-get cadaver Connect RDNZL 6 Jan 2019 • 1 min read
ubuntu Ubuntu YouTube Player Was looking for a tool to backup some movies from YouTube to local disk. Found Minitube, it appears to be an excellent player too. $ sudo apt-get install minitube Just install RDNZL 6 Jan 2019 • 1 min read
ubuntu Open MS .URL shortcuts on Ubuntu We need to create a wrapper script and associate the file type with it. $ sudo vi /usr/bin/open-url.sh #!/bin/sh # opens Windows .URL files in your default browser RDNZL 6 Jan 2019 • 1 min read
ubuntu Install Silverlight on Ubuntu 14.04 Ok, sometimes you can't go around a Microsoft product because a crappy site is written in Silverlight and you can't go without it. These steps install a modified version of RDNZL 6 Jan 2019 • 1 min read
ubuntu Install Flash player inside Chromium on Ubuntu 14.04 Chromium on Ubuntu 14.04 doesn't use Netscape plugin API anymore, it simply not there. The Chrome browser has support for Flash, so the following steps download Chrome, extract it's RDNZL 6 Jan 2019 • 1 min read
ubuntu How to convert FLAC files to MP3 when running Ubuntu $ sudo apt-get install flac lame $ for f in *.flac; do flac -cd "$f" | lame -b 320 - "${f%.*}".mp3; done RDNZL 6 Jan 2019 • 1 min read
ubuntu Fix SSD Trim on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS In Ubuntu 14.04 LTS SSD Trim is enabled by default. That's nice and all, so I thought, nothing to do here but I found out it doesn't work when RDNZL 6 Jan 2019 • 2 min read
ubuntu Change Color Gamma on Ubuntu Install xgamma-gui: $ git clone https://github.com/dfc643/xgamma-gui.git $ cd xgamma-gui Add to Makefile: CONFIG += qt QT += gui $ qmake && make && make install $ ./XgammaGui RDNZL 6 Jan 2019 • 1 min read
