Install Atolm (Borderless Elementary, GTK Theme Updates) Ubuntu 10.10

Atolm, the new but already popular dark theme created by the Orta author has been updated yesterday. Here's the changelog for Atolms 0.6.5:

• Speed optimizations, the theme is now faster than Orta
• Notebook spacing changed.
• Notebook tabs changed.
• Nautilus breadcrumbs and mode button improved.
• Check, radio buttons and tabs now share the same coloring with buttons.
• White arrows on spinbuttons fixed.
• Ubuntu Software Center text colors fixed.
• Emesene status button text color fixed.
• Pidgin status toggle button text color fixed.
• Various Evolution Fixes.
• OpenOffice text visibility fixes.

Download Atolm

Borderless Elementary

Borderless Elementary is just a modified Elementary theme which looks very slick thanks to the removal of the borders and smaller widgets. This theme is ideal for a netbook, but looks great on any screen resolution.


Download Borderless Elementary

Source Webup8 

Install HandBrake 0.9.5 Ubuntu 10.10

Handbrake is a multithreaded video transcoder that supports any DVD-like source and most multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode.

Even though it's not its first aim, Handbrake is used by many as a DVD ripper and it was voted as "best Linux DVD ripper" by the WebUpd8 readers.

Handbrake 0.9.5 was released today, bringing some very interesting new features and improvements:

• BluRay disc structure support. (No decryption support)
• Updated Libraries (x264, ffmpeg)
• SSA Subtitle support (including burn-in)
• MP3 audio now supported in MP4 files
• VOBSUB subtitle now supported in MP4 files
• Updated Presets for newer devices and better quality
• AC3 encoding support.
• Improved DVD Main Feature detection (when using dvdnav)
• Universal audio downmix support (all audio types can be downmixed)
• Point*to*Point encoding (second or frame start and end times)
• Batch Scan (Scan Multiple files at once)
• Many Bug fixes and UI improvements.

A complete changelog is available @ Handbrake forum.

Install Handbrake 0.9.5 in Ubuntu

Add the Handbrake PPA and install Handbrake 0.9.5 in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic, 10.04 Lucid and 10.10 Maverick using the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases

 sudo apt-get update

  sudo apt-get install handbrake-gtk

For other Linux distributions, Windows and Mac OSX downloads, visit the Handbrake downloads page.

Convert .rpm files to .deb files in Ubuntu

Just switch from redhat/fedora to Ubuntu and your used to rpm's? Or did you find an rpm that isnt available as a .deb file? I sure have so I thought I would share the easy process of converting rpm to deb, check it out.

To do this, install Alien using:

  sudo apt-get install alien

And convert using:

  sudo alien -k name-of-rpm-file.rpm

To install .deb packages, double click the file and click Install Package or simply:

  sudo dpkg -i name-of-created-deb-file.deb

Alternatively you can simply install rpm files, This command converts rpm to deb then installs the deb file, after it will delete the temporary .deb created.


  sudo alien -i name-of-rpm-file.rpm


Enjoy.,

Bleeding Edge - Simple shell script to install media players, codecs, MS fonts, drivers and more

Bleeding Edge is a shell script designed for Ubuntu 32 bit. It installs repositories, keys, and software - such as media players, codecs, MS fonts, drivers, etc. It also cleans up the system.

Install Bleeding Edge in ubuntu

You need to download BleedingEdge0_9_9.sh file from here once you have .sh file you need to provide execute permissions to this you can do this by right click on the script select properties or run the following command from your terminal

sudo chmod +x BleedingEdge0_9_9.sh

You can run this script using the following command 

sudo sh BleedingEdge0_8_4.sh 


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How to change network card speed and duplex settings in ubuntu

If you want to change speed and duplex of your network card you have to use ethtool or mii-tool.


ethtool can be used to query and change settings such as speed, auto- negotiation and checksum offload on many network devices, especially Ethernet devices.

In ubuntu if you want to use mii-tool you have to install net-tools package.

Net-tools package includes the important tools for controlling the network subsystem of the Linux kernel. This includes arp, ifconfig, netstat, rarp, nameif and route. Additionally, this package contains utilities relating to particular network hardware types (plipconfig, slattach, mii-tool) and advanced aspects of IP configuration (iptunnel, ipmaddr).

In the upstream package ‘hostname’ and friends are included. Those are not installed by this package, since there is a special “hostname*.deb”.

Install required packages

sudo apt-get install ethtool net-tools

First you need to find the existing network card speed for this you can use the following command

ethtool eth0

Once you have the current speed and duplex details you can change using the following commands

If you want to setup eth0 10 or 100 or 1000 speed with ethtool try this

sudo ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off speed 10 duplex half

sudo ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off speed 100 duplex full

sudo ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off speed 1000 duplex full

If you want to make it permanent you have to add following lines to /etc/network/interfaces file

gksudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces

Add the following line

pre-up /usr/sbin/ethtool -s $IFACE autoneg off 100 duplex full

Save and exit the file

sudo networking restart


enjoy...