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You can now get Hulu content streamed straight to your Linux desktop with Hulu’s new Linux Client. They offer packages for either 32-bit or 64-bit Fedora 9+ and Ubuntu 8.04+. You will still need to have Adobe Flash Player installed. If you can watch videos at Hulu.com than you should be able to watch them with the client.
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I was nearing the end of setting up an encrypted home partition on my Thinkpad when I discovered that vol_id is missing.

root@obsidian:~# vol_id /dev/sdb3
vol_id: command not found

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I purchased a hard drive caddy for my Thinkpad T61p to convert the optical drive bay into a second hard drive bay. It pains me to say it, but I wanted to put Windows Vista back on the laptop. There are too many reasons to list why, but that meant having to give up more hard drive space than I was willing to share between Vista and Ubuntu.

My desired layout was to have Vista inhabit a 320GB drive occupying the main bay while Ubuntu would live on its own 320GB drive in the caddy. Dual-booting would be done through the Bios in order to avoid, among other things, having grub issues.

The biggest concern was the encrypted partition that contains separate root and home logical volumes. I wanted to make an exact image copy with dd but retain its encrypted state. However, I was unsure how I could access the data from the image without restoring it. I knew you could mount ISOs through a loop device, but an encrypted image was a lot different. Here’s how I did it.

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Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical’s founder, posted a video on YouTube announcing, among other things, the upcoming 10.04 LTS release naming it “Lucid Lynx”. I was only a bit disappointed as I was hoping for something along the lines of “Leaping Lizards”.

Ubuntu Screencasts has posted a screencast giving a quick overview of the Software Sources that Ubuntu uses in order to keep your installation up to date with bug fixes and security patches. You can view or download the video from their post HERE.

It’s hard for me to keep track of whether “quit” or “exit” is used to actually stop using a particular command line application. While using nslookup to check on IPs for someone, I used “quit”. The response was rather interesting.

adam@obsidian:~$ nslookup
> quit
Server: 208.67.220.220
Address: 208.67.220.220#53

Non-authoritative answer:
quit.neo.rr.com canonical name = use-exit-moron.neo.rr.com.
Name: use-exit-moron.neo.rr.com
Address: 208.67.217.132
>

My apologies to openDNS. I’ll try to remember to use “exit” from now on.

Source: xkcd #627 – Tech Support Cheat Sheet

This was a great way to end an evening spent in Ubuntu’s support chat room helping a user with trying to get rid of a persistent proxy setting which was preventing him from upgrading his installed packages.
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Just testing out some new Twitter plug-ins. For instance, Twitter Tools for WordPress by Alex King. Secondly, microblog-purple for Pidgin. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Following in the footsteps of Wesley Stessens on his blog, I thought it would be interesting to see what the current traffic details are here at RebelZero in regards to browsers and operating systems. It’s been a while since I last looked at the data Google Analytics has been harvesting for me. Below is the chart for the top 10 combinations for the last 30 days.
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Mozilla has made Firefox a very user friendly and modular web browser. It’s currently the browser in which all others are compared, and for very good reasons. With that, I’ll step down from my soapbox to answer the question at hand:

How does one easily reset the preferences of Firefox?
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