Rebel Zero

Here’s a small introduction to using aliases on the command line to shorten commands.

Quick and easy guide to upgrading your OpenOffice.org to 3.1 on Ubuntu Hardy, Intrepid, or Jaunty using the Scribblers PPA.

You can upgrade Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex’s vlc package from 0.9.4 to 0.9.8a with a few easy steps.

The OpenOffice.org Scribblers PPA has been updated to include OO.o 3.0.1 for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron users.

I spent the evening relocating a local mirror of Ubuntu’s Hardy and Intrepid repository from one machine to another. When I was finished, I went about updating the sources.list files on the various computers when I encountered a GPG error. One of the four Launchpad PPA repos I follow added a signature and I didn’t have the public key in which to verify it.

Here’s how we add items to Ubuntu’s main menu.

Huh!? luke@digglers is what you really picked for a hostname? You really wanted luke@skywalkers and this is how you change it.

Forcing Grub to show the boot menu and wait for you to choose which option to use is very simple.

Seeing that the probability of OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 being backported to Ubuntu Hardy Heron is low, I look into how to install it on my own.

Using a dark GTK theme sometimes causes OpenOffice.org 2.4.x applications to default to high contrast theme making them difficult to use. Here’s a workaround that forces OpenOffice.org to use an alternate GTK theme.