Sunday, December 16, 2007
Kweather in Celsius
To change it from Fahrenheit to Celsius change your system settings:
In your Kmenu:
System Configuration (Settings)>Regional & Accesibility>Country/Region & Language>Other
In your Kmenu:
System Configuration (Settings)>Regional & Accesibility>Country/Region & Language>Other
Downloading files from rapidshare with a premium account
This one took time to figure out, and joining bits and peaces of info I found throughout the Internet. Now it seems strait forward.
Log on to your premium account in rapidshare, so firefox can pass on the rapidshare cookie to d4x
How it works
Highlight the urls you wish to download as you browse with firefox. Right click, FlashGot download selection, and thats all
If you don't want to have that d4x box popping out each time you send something to d4x, set (in about:config) flashgot.Downloader_4_X.quiet to true
(I tried this in my laptop's Ubuntu Gutsy, and it didn't work)
- Install d4x with synaptic.
- Install firefox add-on Flashgot
- In Flashgot options, choose d4x (nt) as your downloader
- In firefox put this in the url bar: about:config
- Set flashgot.rsPremium to true
Log on to your premium account in rapidshare, so firefox can pass on the rapidshare cookie to d4x
How it works
Highlight the urls you wish to download as you browse with firefox. Right click, FlashGot download selection, and thats all
If you don't want to have that d4x box popping out each time you send something to d4x, set (in about:config) flashgot.Downloader_4_X.quiet to true
(I tried this in my laptop's Ubuntu Gutsy, and it didn't work)
Playing DVDs
Googleling I got the impression this is not needed in version 7. Here is the solution for 6.5:
Follow this wiki article to the letter ;-)
It also gets your mp3s to play
Follow this wiki article to the letter ;-)
It also gets your mp3s to play
Giving MEPIS a go
So why this blog?
Mostly for me. It is not intended to be read by others, but just in case someone does drop by, here goes this post.
I find myself installing or reinstalling operating systems quite often, and from one time to the next, I manage to forget how I did this or that to get my system just the way I want.
And why MEPIS?
I normally use Ubuntu, thats what I have on my laptop. But on this old box it was a complete disaster. Its Internet speed was 800 Kb/s, when the laptop gets 10Mb/s off the same connection.
I imagine It's something with the network card recognition, and it could be fixed (things like disabling IPv6 didn't improve the speed). But I'm lazy, and decided to give a try to other Debian based distributions that would work correctly with my Ethernet device out of the box.
First I tried Debian it self. Was ok, but I thought I could try some more. That Epiphany thing for Firefox put me off.
I Installed MEPIS and liked the feel from the beginning, so I said to myself. Why not give it a go?
Went for version 6.5
Mostly for me. It is not intended to be read by others, but just in case someone does drop by, here goes this post.
I find myself installing or reinstalling operating systems quite often, and from one time to the next, I manage to forget how I did this or that to get my system just the way I want.
And why MEPIS?
I normally use Ubuntu, thats what I have on my laptop. But on this old box it was a complete disaster. Its Internet speed was 800 Kb/s, when the laptop gets 10Mb/s off the same connection.
I imagine It's something with the network card recognition, and it could be fixed (things like disabling IPv6 didn't improve the speed). But I'm lazy, and decided to give a try to other Debian based distributions that would work correctly with my Ethernet device out of the box.
First I tried Debian it self. Was ok, but I thought I could try some more. That Epiphany thing for Firefox put me off.
I Installed MEPIS and liked the feel from the beginning, so I said to myself. Why not give it a go?
Went for version 6.5
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