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How to Enable More Compiz effect in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

One of the changes made in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon is Compiz enabled by default on installation. However the Compiz desktop effect setting are modest at best when enabled out-from-the-box in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon.

How to Customize Compiz effect in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon
From Desktop, go to Applications->Add/Remove…, search for ‘compiz’ and then install the CompizConfig utilities.

CLI lover might want to “sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager”.

To customize Compiz effects, just go to System->Preference, and select Advance Desktop Effects Settings.

There you go, a simple guide how to enable Compiz setting manager for Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). From here, you can add and remove compiz effects according to your needs and processing power budget. Hope you’ll find it useful !

[tags]ubuntu,debian,compiz,linux,opensource,desktop,effects,graphics,opengl,glx[/tags]

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Using htaccess to stop Bad Bots from stealing bandwidth and crashing your server

Few days ago my site was hit by a bunch of really bad bots which crawl my site continuously until it overloads my web server. Now I’m publishing a way to block these so-called bad robots from ruining your website by their crazy crawling method.

Assuming you are using Apache Http server, create .httaccess file and append this line to the newly created file.
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Install Ubuntu Theme for Windows

Love Ubuntu but can’t live without Microsoft Windows? Then this might be the solution for you. As funny as it sounds, there are people who took time the to port the Ubuntu-feeling for Windows users to experience.

Read How To Make Windows look like Ubuntu Linux article from The Indie Tribune for a quick guide to make your Windows look like an Ubuntu machine. Have fun!

[tags]ubuntu,gutsy,gutsy gibbon,gnome,windows,windows vista,vista,windows xp[/tags]

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Crispy Clear Font on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon?

Maybe after spending hours of wading through http logs makes me imagining things, such as the font typeface on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. They seems to look crispier and clearer than on Feisty Fawn, even on my old CRT monitor.

The differences is analogous to letter printed with Bubble-Jet printer versus one that is printed with a Laser Printer, you can just spot the differences.

[tags]ubuntu,gutsy,gutsy gibbon,feisty fawn,gnome,font,typeface,windows,opensource,gtk,ttf[/tags]

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Intermittent downtime : Between bad bots and DDOS

Few days ago my site has been subjected to bad http crawling bot which caused my site to be slower than usual. It become worse when somebody took advantage of the situation and launch a Denial-of-Service attack to my website which effectively took my website down for few hours per-day until today.

Rest assured the culprits has been identified and has been dealt with, you can enjoy reading my blog again. I’ve made few modification to my sites so it is more resistant to this sort of problem the next time around.

I sincerely apologize to those who have been subjected to hours of waiting for my site to load (and viewing the dreaded Internal Server Error messages) for the past 3-4 days.

And for those who are wondering about Gutsy Gibbon update will be able to read them at my personal blog : http://please.name.my.

Have fun !

[tags]gutsy,gutsy gibbon,ubuntu,feisty,feisty fawn,ddos,downtime,dreamhost,bots,bad bots[/tags]

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Howto Send and Recieve files over Bluetooth with Ubuntu Linux

With advancement of wireless technology, bluetooth has become a de facto standard for transferring files (and synchronizing data) between mobile devices (PDA, smartphone) and personal computer.

In this post I’m going to show you how to send and receive files over bluetooth using obexftp and obexpushd package from OpenOBEX project.

Send files to mobile device
First install obexftp and obexpushd

sudo apt-get install obexftp obexpushd

Insert a bluetooth dongle and activate bluetooth on your mobile phone. Do a scan of nearby bluetooth device (your mobile phone) by executing :

obexftp -b

obexftp then will display the scan result on your screen, like this :

Scanning ...
Using  00:15:A0:53:6F:85   Nokia 6680
Browsing 00:15:A0:53:6F:85 ...
Channel: 10

Pick a file, and try sending it over bluetooth by executing :

obexftp -b 00:15:A0:53:6F:85 -p example.txt

obexftp will then send the file to your bluetooth device (address : 00:15:A0:53:6F:85 – taken from previous command). Make sure that you set the mobile device to accept the file.

How to receive files over bluetooth
Insert bluetooth dongle and turn it into discoverable mode

hciconfig hci0 piscan

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