Lucid Released

Great if you ask me. I don't bother with fstab for some of my less-used partitions now.

Never knew the password prompt could be toggled, but oh well.

 

Wifi works perfectly in 10.04. Had problems in 9.10. Only downside with 10.04 is random flashes appearing and the computer goes into lock mode after non use even though I have it unchecked.

 

How get video thumbnails in Lucid ?

 

Make sure all the codecs are loaded, the good, the bad and the ugly as well as the unstripped, then go to nautilus>preferences>preview and select show thumbnails for files larger than 10mb

Bear in mind it will slow down nautilus when viewing a folder with huge number of video files.

 

Thanks, I did all that but in addition deleted the thumbnails in ~/.thumbnails/fail. Now I get thumbnails for the whole damn lot - even for video files larger than 10 MB despite setting for smaller than 10 MB only. Doesn't matter because after first loaded there is no discernable delay subsequently.

 

http://gloobus.net/

Check this out, there is a ppa for this in case you are interested.

 

Wow, that is nifty. Do you use it ? May be a little overkill ?

 

Built a dual GTX280, i7 extreme PC for my nephew, I put it there, I am ancient Unix guy, the less eye candy the better for me. It does work superb though with minimal drain on resources. Its the champ of previews.

 

today i install the flash 64 alpha like your advice thanks but one more thing do i need to copy libflashplayer.so in chromium and opera as well because they are not default picking up from Mozilla lib

 

Did you install like this:

Download Flashx64, untar it, sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

Then do a sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins

 

thanks ocky 1st step was right but

i didnt do Then do a sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins

instead now what i did is i copy it to libflashplayer.so plugin to usr/lib/opera/plugin and chromium as well and its working

i try your way as well

one more help i need i didnt get lm-sensors working

i did sensor-detect

then it stuck on

/etc/init.d/module-init-tools start

i might be doing something wrong

flash is working sorry my mistake thanks very much ocky
can you help me setting lm-sensors as well

thanks in advance

 

Try sudo /etc/init.d/module-init-tools restart

 

thanks ocky its works like a charm thanks very much

 

These are the steps:-
Install and Configure lm-sensors

Install the lm-sensors package (see InstallingSoftware).
Run sudo sensors-detect and answer YES to all YES/no questions. I generally use the ISA bus rather than the SMBus bus, your choice to this question!.
At the end of sensors-detect, a list of modules that needs to be loaded will displayed. Type "yes" to have sensors-detect insert those modules into /etc/modules, or edit /etc/modules yourself.
Next, run "sudo /etc/init.d/module-init-tools restart". This will read the changes you made to /etc/modules in step 3, and insert the new modules into the kernel.

Test lm-sensors

Next, you should test that lm-sensors works correctly. Run the "sensors" command and check the output.

 

last question

which is safe temp to run your system

Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +57.0°C (high = +78.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)

coretemp-isa-0001
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 1: +56.0°C (high = +78.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)

also my nvidia graphic card (gpu) temp 56.0°C

 

yes i did all the steps except sudo /etc/init.d/module-init-tools restart

thanks very much

 

Well, bit on the high side but I know nothing about this. Suppose it depends on what the ambient temp. is and whether you were running any CPU or graphics intensive applications. Best wait for our friend and helper the venerable linuxforall for advice. Here are my temps.

 

With ambient temps at 38C here, the CPU cores, all 8 of them hit about 54 average, GPU at 62C and hdd at 43C here. Along with lm-sensors, install hddtemp which will give you readout for your hdds.

 

There is a PPA for flash 64bit.

Follow the instructions at http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/12/64bit-flash-ppa.html

I find it less buggy than the 32bit version (under 64bit Ubuntu).

Cheers, Nick

 

thanks nick

what is did is i download 64 bit from adobe site

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/

right click in gui mode and extract on my home folder than from there i move it to /usr/lib
/firefox-3.6.3/plugin mistakenly 1st


when i run sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugin

it locked my firefox plugin

then i remove it

and move new libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

by following command

(sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins)

also before that i copy one copy of libflashplayer.so to chromium and opera plugin as well

now they are working very well one thing

i know it will share from mozilla plugin mode i didnt need to copy it but i did it already and its working very smooth like a butter specially on chromium i never seen so much fast and beautiful quality video before on 64 bit so i didn't delete them

thanks to all guys for helping me

 

I just do a simple download, untar and then sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and it works fantastic, this is how I have been doing since day one of Flash x64 release. Now there is a ppa for x64 flash for those not willing to go via command line method, also it will keep flash x64 updated to latest when its released.

 

I'm new to Linux. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 (32 bit) as a VM in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 x64. Everything seems OK. And I have a few questions.

Would I be better off with Ubuntu 10.04 (64 bit)?

I'm using the encrypted home directory option offered during the installation. How does that compare with TrueCrypt re security? I get that Ubuntu uses file-level encryption vs container encryption in TrueCrypt, which is good for incremental backups.

Also, I've seen instructions for encrypting the swap disk. Other than hibernation issues, how risky is doing that?

FWIW, I last tried Ubuntu at 7.X, and this is very impressive.

 

True Crypt is available in Ubuntu repository and there is a deb file for it as well in True Crypt site. Also x64 is good idea if you have x64 CPU and more than 2GB RAM.

 

Thanks, linuxforall. Re x32 vs x64, I'm worried re compatibility with Hyper-V. Officially, MS supports only SUSE and Red Hat. I'm currently running without Linux integration components, FWIW. Mouse via VNC is funky, but usable.