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 change the device MAC address to fit the current machine.

Refer to this link: Making 256-color AND Line drawing characters both work in PuTTY

Add this into your .bashrc:

export NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1

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:

>>screenshot --clipboard --fullpage

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.

1. Edit the /etc/sudoers:

   $ sudo vi /etc/sudoers

2. Add a new entry at the last (USERNAME is your account name).

   # User privilege specification
   root    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
   
   # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
   %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
   
   # Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
   %sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
   USERNAME        ALL=(ALL:ALL)   NOPASSWD:ALL
   
   # See sudoers(5) for more information on "#include" directives:
   
   #includedir /etc/sudoers.d
   

3. Restart the sudo service.

   $ sudo service sudo restart

4. Logout then login again. You won’t be prompted for the password anymore.

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 open link with custom url-handlers