Love the new button layout in Ubuntu 10.04? Yeah, me neither. Thankfully, it’s absurdly easy to fix it. You can run this from a terminal window or from the Run dialog (Alt+F2).
gconftool-2 –type string –set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout "menu:minimize,maximize,close"
Bada-bing!
My bank, while I’m very pleased with them overall, has a not-so-hot online banking system. My biggest (and simplest) gripe is the inability to get a daily email with the balance of my checking account. I’ve tried multiple ways with limited success, until I did it in Perl.
First, I outlined the steps required to log [...]
So I’ve already done a post on getting track information from Rythmbox, but VLC felt cold and left out, so here it is. The process is pretty much the same, just tweaked a bit for VLC.
First, go into VLC, Tools -> Preferences, click the “All” radio button (near the bottom), Interface, click “Main interfaces” and [...]
Save MySQL and the Internet
So Oracle is buying Sun, and in-turn, is getting MySQL… Something they’ve tried to aquire several times in the past. Monty Widenus, the original founder of MySQL, is pleading for people to sign a petition for Sun to structure the sale agreement in such a way to prevent Oracle from getting [...]