firewall for ubuntu

See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UFW ufw

How to remove "Permission denied" with find

Add

2>&1 | grep -v "Permission denied"

after the normal find. Eg.

find / -name domain.xml 2>&1 | grep -v "Permission denied"

Stop service from starting automatic

I don't want mysql-db to start with the machine.

sudo update-rc.d mysql disable

did the trick.

How to setup Scanner Medion [MD 9458] on Ubuntu

Copy ePlus2k.usb to /usr/share/sane/gt68xx

Change /etc/sane.d/gt68xx.conf Eg. sudo gedit /etc/sane.d/gt68xx.conf

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################################################## ############################
# Autodetect Mustek BearPaw 1200 CU, 2400 CU, Mustek ScanExpress 1200 UB Plus,
# Artec Ultima 2000, and several other GT-6801-based scanners
usb 0x05d8 0x4002

# Medion/Lifetec/Tevion/Cytron MD 9458:
override "artec-ultima-2000"
vendor "Medion"
model "MD 9458"
firmware "ePlus2k.usb"

# Mustek BearPaw 1200 CU doesn't need any manual override
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To edit PDFs: http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/

How to change MAC

sudo ifconfig eth0 down
sudo ifconfig eth0 hw ether NE:W0:MA:C0:00:00
sudo ifconfig eth0 up

Make mms stream work with firefox on ubuntu

sudo apt-get install mozilla-plugin-vlc

Type about:config i firefox:

Add new String

network.protocol-handler.app.mms

with value

/usr/bin/vlc

Add new Boolean

network.protocol-handler.external.mms

with value

true

Cisco VPN from Ubuntu

Used sudo apt-get install network-manager-vpnc but got problems with the group password.

Then used: cisco vpnclient password decoder this site - perfect. :)

Upgrade Openoffice in Ubuntu

sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

Add:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main

then do an update:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openoffice.org

How to make Hotmail work in Firefox under Ubuntu

Write about:config in browser and change the value in general.useragent.vendor from Ubuntu to Firefox

To enable java in firefox running ubuntu

cd /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.3/plugins
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Virtualbox stopping at spawning session 0%

Trying to start Virtualbox I got this: spawning session 0% and it never grows.

sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

Fixed it.

How to make Citrix Client run on Linux

First need a Client witch can be found here: Linux ICA Clients

Unzip and run setupwfc. I selected /usr/lib/ICAClient as install dir.

If getting the fowling error: You have not chosen to trust “Thawte Server CA”, the issuer of the server’s security cerfiticate (SSL error 61) you need to copy the certificates to the client E.g.

sudo cp /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/* /usr/lib/ICAClient/linuxx86/keystore/cacerts/

Install, Uninstall, Remove and reinstall apache2

To see which is installed:

dpkg -l | grep apache

To install apache2 on ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install apache2 apache2.2-common

To remove

sudo apt-get remove apache2 apache2.2-common --purge

apt-get -o DPkg::Options::="--force-confmiss" --reinstall install apache2.2-common

Change spell check in Pidgin

To see installed dictionaries:

sudo aspell dicts
sudo apt-get install aspell-da

Create file .aspell.conf in home dir with following line

master da

Restart pidgin.

Mount NAS to Linux

apt-get install smbfs

sudo smbmount //192.168.3.10/media /home/kim/nas -o username=kim,password=pass,uid=1000,mask=000

Mount windows drive in Ubuntu

sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x91f391f3

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        7153    57456441    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            7154       14593    59761800    5  Extended
/dev/sda5            7154       14284    57279726   83  Linux
/dev/sda6           14285       14593     2482011   82  Linux swap / Solaris

cd /mnt/
sudo mkdir windrive
sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/windrive -o "umask=022″

Enable .htaccess in apache2

Go to /etc/apache2/sites-available
sudo vi default
Change 'AllowOverride None' to 'AllowOverride All'

and restart:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

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Note: Should be done by:
add new entry in /etc/apache2/sites-available and
Add by:
sudo a2ensite [name] // Means that there will be a new link in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled

Remove by:
sudo a2dissite [name]