Category: Working

Since the T410 is used for nearly four years and there is a chance to get a newer machine, I got a second hand T420 yesterday. It is pretty much like T410. So I decided to switch the HD, the Ubuntu 12.04 is working fine with it. The only thing I need to do is…

Refer to this link: Making 256-color AND Line drawing characters both work in PuTTY Add this into your .bashrc: Then re-login. If you want to keep this when using sudo, add this into your /etc/sudoers: Defaults env_keep += “NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS” Then restart the sudo service.

It’s very easy when Firefox provides Developer Toolbar. I’m using Firefox esr 24.3.0. Steps: Launch it. Firefox > Web Developer > Developer Toolbar Input this command to take a full-page screen shot then copy to clipboard:

I have some bash scripts which I manually run a lot and they need to run with sudo. I also don’t want to be prompted for any password. Here is the solution. Edit the /etc/sudoers: Add a new entry at the last (USERNAME is your account name). Restart the sudo service. Logout then login again.…

It’s very easy after googling… $ cd /usr/share/applications $ sudo cp LotusNotes8.5.desktop LotusNotes8.5-url.desktop $ sudo vi LotusNotes8.5-url.desktop The example: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Lotus Notes 8.5 Url Type=Application Exec=/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/framework/../notes-wrapper %u Icon=/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/framework/shared/eclipse/features/com.ibm.notes.links.feature_8.5.4.20120906-1255/icons/notes.ico Terminal=false MimeType=x-scheme-handler/notes Categories=Application;Office; NoDisplay=true $ sudo update-desktop-database Versions: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS x86_64 IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.4 x86 Reference: Comment 2 for bug 788673 – unable to…