Drapes - wallpaper switcher

Hi,

I'm back again after long time didn't update new post in this blog.

Have you ever come across your mind how you can switch your Ubuntu wallpaper with pictures from your PC? Well Drapes is the answer. Drapes, a Wallpaper managment application for the GNOME desktop, in another word is a desktop wallpaper switcher. Just imagine your desktop wallpaper will change image let say every 10 minutes with another picture. Sound very cool right?



Just give a try to install Drapes. Open Synaptic package manager and find for Drapes and install it. To make Drapes lunch on start up, add Drapes to System > Preferences > Startup Applications



Drapes icon will appear at the top right hand corner of your desktop Gnome panel. Right click on it. Take a look under the Preferences tab. You can specify images location to display as wallpaper, timing selection, and some other things.

Youtube downloader for Ubuntu

Hi,

Ever wonder how to download videos from YouTube if you are using Linux? There are many tools that you could use. For me, I'm interested most in youtube-dl. You could download YouTube videos using terminal. Open terminal and run "youtube-dl [URL to the video]" to download your favorite videos.

To install, become root and type;
root@ubuntu:~# apt-get install youtube-dl

Usage: youtube-dl [options] video_url

Options:
-h, --help print this help text and exit
-v, --version print program version and exit
-u USERNAME, --username=USERNAME
account username
-p PASSWORD, --password=PASSWORD
account password
-o FILE, --output=FILE
output video file name
-q, --quiet activates quiet mode
-s, --simulate do not download video
-t, --title use title in file name
-l, --literal use literal title in file name
-n, --netrc use .netrc authentication data
-g, --get-url print final video URL only
-2, --title-too used with -g, print title too

Credit to Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez for written and actively maintained youtube-dl

Unrar

Launch Synaptic Package Manager, search for unrar. You will get two available unarchiver unrar and unrar-free. Unrar-free come out with limited function compare with unrar (non-free version). It's up to you which unrar you want to install.

For me, I choose unrar (non-free version). Mark it for installation. Once completed, you will be able to view/unrar .rar file extension.

Install unrar using terminal;
root@support-t60:~# apt-get install unrar

mtr

mtr (Matt's Traceroute) combines the functionality of the traceroute and ping programs in a single network diagnostic tool. This tool is very useful to traceroute IP or host because you can get better result (if using normal traceroute, the result sometimes has been filtered out by ISP router).

There are two version of mtr, mtr-tiny and mtr. The different is mtr-tiny run and display its output in terminal while mtr display output in its own window.

To install mtr you can use apt-get;

1. apt-get install mtr
2. apt-get install mtr-tiny

Below is terminal output when I installed mtr on my laptop;

root@support-t60:~# apt-get install mtr
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
mtr-tiny
The following NEW packages will be installed:
mtr
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 49.0kB of archives.
After this operation, 61.4kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://my.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe mtr 0.72-2ubuntu1 [49.0kB]
Fetched 49.0kB in 2s (19.7kB/s)
(Reading database ... 99002 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mtr-tiny ...
Selecting previously deselected package mtr.
(Reading database ... 98997 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mtr (from .../mtr_0.72-2ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up mtr (0.72-2ubuntu1) ...

root@support-t60:~#

Dig command not found

I want to dig google.com from Ubuntu server, suddenly bash return error mentioned that dig command not found.

root@vps2006:~# dig google.com ns +short
-bash: dig: command not found

I have installed dnsutils in order to use dig.

root@vps2006:~# apt-get install dnsutils

As a result, now I'm able to dig to any domain that I want :D

root@vps2006:~# dig google.com ns +short
ns3.google.com.
ns4.google.com.
ns1.google.com.
ns2.google.com.

Useradd

Basically what I need is to create a new user in my Ubuntu server. I'm using useradd command with few options as below;

root@vps2006:~# useradd -d /home/support -s /bin/bash -m support
root@vps2006:~# ls /home/
support

-d set home directory for the user
-s shell login access
-m to force useradd to create home directory for the user

Gnome version

There are two ways to check GNOME version. First way is the easiest way. Go to
System > About GNOME

Second way, open terminal and type gnome-about --version

yazid@support-t60:~$ gnome-about --version
GNOME gnome-about 2.22.3

My bandwidth speed test

Hohohoho...

Sorry guys, maybe this is out of topic to post in Yazidbuntu. But anyway I want to share my feelings to all over the World.

Finally I get what I want and the most important is I get what I have paid for my home DSL package. Before this my download speed only at 400++ kbps even after 3 months I have upgraded my DSL package to 1Mbps. Now I'm the most happy person in Malaysia!

To all TM especially Streamyx staff, you guys must dedicated to your work, listen to customer complain carefully and you must take high responsibility to your work. I want to say million of thanks to TM technical staff who came to my house to do troubleshooting until this issue fixed.

I'm proud to be Malaysian

Ubuntu version

How to check Ubuntu version using SSH?

yazid@support-t60:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.2
Release: 8.04
Codename: hardy

yazid@support-t60:~$ lsb_release --help
Options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --version show LSB modules this system supports
-i, --id show distributor ID
-d, --description show description of this distribution
-r, --release show release number of this distribution
-c, --codename show code name of this distribution
-a, --all show all of the above information
-s, --short show all of the above information in short format

Selamat datang ke blog Yazidbuntu

Assalamualaikum,

Blog ni saya tujukan kepada semua penggemar Ubuntu yang berada di Malaysia mahupun di seluruh dunia.

Melalui blog ini saya ingin berkongsi pengalaman dan pendapat saya kepada anda semua sepanjang usia saya menggunakan Ubuntu. Anda juga boleh menulis pendapat anda agar kita semua dapat berkongsi ilmu pengetahuan mengenai Ubuntu.

Saya menulis blog ini menggunakan laptop IBM T60 yang telah dilengkapi perisian sistem pengoperasi Ubuntu Hardy 8.04. Seronok rasanya dapat kembali menggunakan Ubuntu bersama-sama dengan VPN tempat saya bekerja. Sebelum ni saya menggunakan Intrepid, saya menghadapi kesulitan menggunakan VPN. Namun setelah saya down grade ke Hardy, semua masalah itu tidak muncul lagi. Walaupun agak kecewa sedikit dengan Intrepid, namun Hardy berjaya mengubati hati saya yang telah terluka :P

Kepada anda semua di luar sana, selamat membaca dan berkongsi pengalaman menggunakan Ubuntu.