Notes

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..

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.

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/.

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.

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)