Output Audio to Airport Express From Unbuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 (PulseAudio)

July 13th, 2010 Alex Posted in linux, music, ubuntu Comments Off

  1. :~$ sudo apt-get install pulse-audio-module-raop paprefs
    :~$ paprefs
    
  2. check "Make discoverable network sound devices available locally"
    check "Make discoverable Apple Airtunes sound devices available locally"
    
  3. Reboot (or restart pulseaudio)
  4. Go to Sound Preferences – Output (by clicking on the speaker in the taskbar)
  5. Select Base Sation as output
  6. Start your favorite radio station (Pandora?), mp3, etc..
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Move The Minimize, Maximize And Close Buttons To The Right In Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

May 6th, 2010 Alex Posted in linux, ubuntu Comments Off

How-to move the minimize, maximize and close buttons to the right of the window in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx).

  1. Press ALT-F2, type: gconf-editor and click Run
  2. Go to: apps > metacity > general and right-click on button_layout and choose “Edit Key….”
  3. Type in menu:minimize,maximize,close and click OK
  4. That’s it.
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Installing Skype 32 bit on Slackware64

May 1st, 2010 Alex Posted in linux, slackware Comments Off

You first need to upgrade your gcc and glibc packages to their multi-lib versions and then install the 32 bits libraries (along with your 64bits libraries that are already installed). Detailed instructions at: http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/.

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Download Excel Spreadsheet from Microsoft using Firefox in Linux

February 8th, 2010 Alex Posted in linux, windows Comments Off

To avoid getting the error “Your operating system does not meet system requirements”, I had to use User Agent Switcher to download the spreadsheet at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/TC300022771033.aspx for electric meter logging for energy efficiency. Then I used cabextract to extract the .cab file and used Open Office to view the 30002277.xltx file. Here it is saved using Open Office’s ODS format: electricity_tracking.

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Playing Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Under Ubuntu Linux

December 5th, 2009 Alex Posted in 3D, games, linux, ubuntu Comments Off

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install wine1.2
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks vcrun2005
sh winetricks d3dx9
wine regedit
  • under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine, create key Direct3D if it doesn’t already exist
  • inside Direct3D create the following values:
    • string: DirectDrawRenderer value: opengl
    • string: OffscreenRenderingMode value: fbo
    • string: RenderTargetLockMode value: auto
    • string: UseGLSL value: readtex
    • string: VideoMemorySize value: (video card memory size in MB)
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