Tag Archives: Ubuntu

How to remove items from nautilus context menu

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

I installed a STUPID application and this STUPID application installed a STUPID item to my nautilus context menu so that whenever I right click any folder or file, I can send it to that STUPID application!! Anyway, whenever I click … Continue reading →

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Compile and Install VLC 0.9.9a on Ubuntu Hardy

Posted on April 18, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

Here is what I did to install VLC 0.9.9a on my Ubuntu Hardy: sudo apt-get build-dep vlcsudo apt-get install paranoia*sudo apt-get install libx264-dev wget http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/pub…-latest.tar.gztar xvfz live555-latest.tar.gzcd livesudo ./genMakefiles linuxsudo makecd ..sudo cp -r live /usr/lib wget http://download.videolan.org/pub/vid…0.9.9a.tar.bz2tar jxvf vlc-0.9.9a.tar.bz2cd … Continue reading →

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Fix Keyboard Sound Controls; Ubuntu Hardy on IBM Thinkpad T60

Posted on April 2, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

I have a ThinkPad T60 (hda-intel sound) and I was noticing that the volume buttons produce very coarse/abrupt volume changes. I guessed that the volume buttons were changing some internal (direct to speaker) volume and, because of key mappings, were … Continue reading →

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Latest Screenshot from my laptop

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik
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Getting (compiling) the latest version of Beagle Indexing Service on Ubuntu Hardy

Posted on March 7, 2009 by Ahmed Tawfik

I couldn’t find pre-compiled packages (.deb) for the latest version of Beagle (0.3.9), so I thought about compiling it myself, I did the following: Downloaded the new source files from http://beagle-project.org/Main_Page (beagle and libbeagle) and extracted the files. Opened a … Continue reading →

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