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Quick note to myself

StarQuake — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:12:57 +0000

I always forget how to recursively remove the svn directories from a directory. So here is the command for me and anyone that might need it:

find . -name '.svn' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

It removes all svn directories in the current path.

Be careful though!!! A typo like a ‘/’ can easily remove your entire filesystem, so try replacing rm with echo the first time so you can see what files are about to be deleted.

Ubuntu Karmic

StarQuake — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:16:52 +0000

Running Ubuntu Karmic Beta since a few days now. It’s running smooth. Some new features I like:

Apport reports crashing applications
The system feels more responsive
Firefox 3.5
Pretty icons in the task bar

Problems not really fixed…

StarQuake — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:14:31 +0000

Mmmm…. It seems the problem is not fixed yet. npviewer.bin still crashes, not as often as before though. Going to upgrade to the beta release karmic. See if that helps.

Problems with flash are fixed!!!

StarQuake — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:17:02 +0000

The error I was getting was this:

Sep 23 13:07:14 webmonkey kernel: [675069.159578] npviewer.bin[6502]: segfault at ff99cd48 ip 00000000ff99cd48 sp 00000000ff9f059c error 14

The problem is fixed after upgrading the following packages to updates-proposed:

libgl1-mesa-glx 7.4-0ubuntu3.3
libgl1-mesa-dri 7.4-0ubuntu3.3
libglu1-mesa 7.4-0ubuntu3.3
mesa-utils 7.4-0ubuntu3.3

Ubuntu 9.04 64bit

StarQuake — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:00:36 +0000

I’m running Ubuntu 9.04 64bit. Everything works fine except one thing:

Adobe Flash! Grrr….

I installed the default flashplugin package but it keeps crashing on a few sites. It’s really annoying. I installed the flashblock plugin and set it to block all flash content for now.

Apart from that plugin everything is smooth. It works like a charm!

Installed eBox

StarQuake — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:20:49 +0000

I installed eBox on a Shuttle XPC. Now I have a Linux firewall at home. And it has some other stuff like file sharing and OpenVPN.

It was very easy and works quite well.

You can find more about eBox here:
http://ebox-platform.com/