Ubuntu: Hate it or Love it (just an update)

Ubuntu, hate it or love it? They do have excellent up to date repositories. Plus, it is the newbies favorite Linux Distro. We are thinking of giving Ubuntu Linux Desktop a second chance.
We are messing around with the system codes and settings. Trying to see what we can mod to our liking. On a side note I must point out, all the Debian based Linux systems are pretty much the same. The main differences are the repositories, which default Desktop Environment they are using, and which applications they have installed, that's it. The setting will be limited to what programs you have installed.

We personally think Ubuntu Linux Desktop is the Linux distro of choice if you don't have free time to be messing around with Linux system settings. In our case, we don't have much free time, and yet we are still messing around with the system setting. Why?!

I'll let you come up with an answer for that.

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2012

It's Official! Adobe Flash Player Really SUCKED

Sucked my cpu(s) that is.
You know, I never could understand why Apple users "dislike" Adobe Flash Player so much. Well, that was before I experience the horror first handed.
I just spent the last several days trying to get my Adobe Flash Player to work properly. When I restart my computer everything seem to work properly. But, give it a couple of minutes and it start to lag, and CPUs at 99%. Apparently, the word "upgrade" seem to mean "downgrade" now our days.

I mean can you believe it? I even went back installing Ubuntu. Thinking, something was wrong with my own personal OS set up. Installed the latest 64 bits OS, 32 bits OS, unable, disable hardware acceleration, changing stream quality from high to low. Nothing worked.

The only thing I haven't tried is downgrade to an older version of Adobe Flash Player, which by the way seem ridiculous to me. I mean, isn't an update version suppose to be better than the older version by adding bugs fix and fancy new features?

I am starting to think my computer is allergic to Adobe Flash Player. Even the flash player in Google Chrome had the same problem on my machine. So, I can't blame my Firefox browser.

Ubuntu Mouse Icon Theme Change

Ubuntu cursor icon themes or any other distro cursor theme is very easy to change, specially if you have an app for that. But what if you don't have an app installed for mouse cursor theme change? Or, What if you change the theme and it doesn't take effect on all over the desktop? You know what I am talking about. You installed a cursor theme, but it only work on some parts, and it keep changing back and forth between the new and the old theme.

Thankfully, the fix is very easy. Open the index.theme on your default directory from your icons directory as a super user, and change the theme name to the one you want to change it to.

The fastest way to do is via the terminal using nano or vi:

sudo nano /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme
Enter your password, change the theme name and click on ctrl+x and press Enter key to save.

Cant remember the mouse theme's name? Just use ls on your terminal.
ls /usr/share/icons
This will print out all the names of icon themes you have installed on your terminal screen.

WPA2 Wireless Internet connection without wicd, wifi Radar and Network Manager

How to connect to your secure WIFI connection without installing, using Network Manager, wicd or any other heavy graphical applications.

This post is intended for people who want a lightweight GNU Linux system and a WPA2 encrypted wireless Internet connection. Plus, make sure you have installed the wireless card driver necessary for your computer, do some reading on the topic, and back up your data.


Let's get started:

Extract compressed files the easy way (.tar.bz2, .tar.gz, .zip, 7z, .exe, ...)

Add that to your ~/.bashrc (which should be in your home directory).
Now to extract a file on your terminal just add the word extract in front of the compressed file location. It will extract the compressed file as long as you had the libraries install
Usage example:
extract ~/firefox-8.0.1.tar.bz2

Here is the script to Copy and paste: