Today I saw two search engine at Reviewlinux.com. They are really good.
http://www.uboontu.com/
http://search.ubuntuwire.com/
UbuntuWire is a specialized Ubuntu search engine which can help you find information related to Ubuntu operating system quickly without having to wade through countless unrelated websites on the internet...
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Now, VirtualBox comes gradually to maturity.
Some of the features of VirtualBox are:
1.Modularity.
2.Virtual machine descriptions in XML.
3.Guest Additions for Windows and Linux.
4.Shared folders.
5.Virtual USB Controllers.
6.Remote Desktop Protocol.
7.USB over RDP.
See more Here.
I want to talk about the installation of windows XP in Ubuntu via VirtualBox.
Installation of VirtualBox:
sudo apt-get install virtualbox
Or you can get the newest version at the Homepage.
Install Windows XP in Virtualbox:
1. Run Virtualbox in "Applications/System Tools/innotek VirtualBox".
2. Click "New" to creat a new "Machine".
3. Press Next.
4. Type in the name of your new machine and choose the Operating System Type. Here I choose Windows XP.
5. Set base memory size, I think the recommended one is good enough.
6. Creat a new Virtual machine. Choose it by pressing "Existing" if you have created one .
7. Creat a new Virtual disk. You can choose the Virtual Disk Image Type. "Dynamically" or "Fixed", I think the former is better.
8. Set the maximum size of the disks you need.
9. Confirm the Summary of your settings. After that, press "Finish".
10. Set the Location of iso image, you can read it from CDROM or you can creat an ".iso" file on your compute first (I recomend this way since it is much more fast ):
cp /dev/cdrom ~/winxp.iso
11. After about 15 minites to 30, a new Windows XP comes out!
12. Install Guest Additons .
By click "Devices/Install Guest Additons" in the above menu.
13. Moreover, you can choose seamless mode by choose "Machine/Seamless Mode" in the menu so that you can use Windows and Linux more conveniently.
14. Some shortcuts.
The default Host Key is the right "Ctrl".
Fullscreen Mode: Host + F
Seamless Mode: Host + L
15. Share Folders with the host machine.
1) Set the share folders by click "Device/Shared Folders..." in the menu.
2) Click "Tools" in the menu of "My computer",and set the "Mapping Network Drive".
3) Now open your "My Computer", Here comes the Shared Folders.
LyricZilla is a plugin for music players ( BMP and Audacious temporarily). It can search Lyrics automatically, and roll with the playing.
Installation:
1. sudo wget http://lyriczilla.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/package/lyriczilla.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lyriczilla.list
2. sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lyriczilla lyriczilla-plugin-audacious lyriczilla-plugin-bmp
3. Enable it at "Preferences->Plugins->General->Lyriczilla"
4. Restart the player.
Please see Here for the latest news.
Audacious is compatible with Winamp 2.x or "Classic" skins, as well as XMMS skins. (They're basically the same thing.)
You can find Winamp-specific skins at:
winamp.com or customize.org or skinz.org
You can find XMMS-specific skins at:
xmms.org or themes.org or gnome-look.org
More skins can be found at:
breedart.org or deviantART
You can change the skins following this. Actually NOT all of them can be used perfectly.
The following are some simple ones.
Crystal
Download
BeAmp
Download
SilverXP
Download
Luna Element for Winamp
Download
X-Pirate
Download
RVista_II
Download
Every time I install Ubuntu, the biggest problem will be changing the Resolution of the desktop and login window.
If I want "Visual Effects", I will have to enable "Nvidia accelerated graphics drivers"; However, whenever I enable it, the Screen Resolution will change to "50", although it looks the same as "85". Changing the number of rate at "desktop/gnome/screen/default/0" in "Configuration Editor"( gconf-editor ) won't work. I doubt that this is a BUG.
After I turn on "Visual Effects", the "close", "maximize", "minimize" buttons etc. of windows besides Firefox will disappear unless I install "compizconfig-settings-manager".
Next we will change the resolution of login window.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
Delete the resolution you don't need.
An alternative way will be configuring "/etc/X11/xorg.conf", see Here.
Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. It runs on Unix and Windows and is licensed under the GNU GPL.
You can download it Here
Or
sudo apt-get install squid
However, Cohomo has to edit "squid.conf" every time he starts Squid and then restart it since his IP is random. It is very complicated. So He wrote a script to replace the IP address in the row "/acl bb0 src" by the real IP.
#!/bin/bash
echo Please Type in your IP：
read myip
sudo sed -ie “/acl bb0 src */c\acl bb0 src $myip” /etc/squid/squid.conf
sudo /etc/init.d/squid restart
where "-i" means change "squid.conf" directly and "/c" means change the corresponding row.
Copy the above codes as a text, and set the permission as "Allow executing file as program". Once you want to run it, just double click this file and choose "run in terminal".
