The fix is quite simple, in your home directory delete the folder “~/.fontconfig”. Log out to restart your session and your fonts should now appear smooth and fuller.

The solution is simple, you just need to edit the file /etc/default/grub. Change the following line

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

to

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="i8042.nopnp"

After the edit, open up a terminal and run

$sudo update-grub

Then reboot and find your touch pad working.  There is however, a problem, which is that it is recognised as a mouse so you can not use features such as turning of the touch pad when you are typing, which I find really annoying.

I took my hard drive out of my old laptop which had Intel GMA graphics and put it in my shiny new Studio 17. Everything seemed to be fine until I tried playing a video in Totem or VLC. The video was very dark and reddish. I tried installing the proprietry crap fglrx which seems to suck at multi head if the external monitor has a higher resolution than the laptop screen. With this fglrx driver enabled the video completely disappeared and left just a blank black window in Totem.

The solution is easy, run

$ gstreamer-properties

On the Video tab on Default Output select X Window System (No Xv).

For now Roadsend can be used to compile CLI apps or webapps where you want to protect the source code.  The Roadsend Compiler is completely independent from the Zend Engine and actually compiles to a binary file for your operating system / architecture so very different from other source code protection systems such as Zend Guard, Ioncube or Bcompiler.  Roadsend also can use its PHP engine to interpret and run scripts just like the Zend Engine.

You will need to install the Bigloo package first then the Roadsend package.

Tested on Karmic (9.10)

• bigloo_3.2a-1_amd64.deb
• roadsend-php_2.9.8-1_amd64.deb

You will also have to change the LD_LIBRARY_PATH before it will work.  For some unknown reason putting this in .profile wont work so we are going to export this new path in our .bashrc file

$ echo 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib"' | tee -a ~/.bashrc

Tested on Jaunty (9.04), Karmic (9.10)

php-gtk_2.0.1-1_amd64.deb

Installation Instructions

Download the deb file for your version of Ubuntu above and double click this file when downloaded.

Once installed you will need to edit your php.ini file to get it to work.

$ sudo gedit /etc/php5/cli/php.ini

In the Dynamic Extensions part of the file add the line extension=php_gtk2.so

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Dynamic Extensions ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;
; If you wish to have an extension loaded automatically, use the following
; syntax:
;
;   extension=modulename.extension
;
; For example, on Windows:
;
;   extension=msql.dll
;
; ... or under UNIX:
;
;   extension=msql.so
;
; Note that it should be the name of the module only; no directory information
; needs to go here.  Specify the location of the extension with the
; extension_dir directive above.

extension=php_gtk2.so

You may wish to do a simple test to make sure all is working (taken from http://gtk.php.net/manual/en/tutorials.helloworld.php).

<?php
if (!class_exists('gtk')) {
 die("Please load the php-gtk2 module in your php.ini\r\n");
}

$wnd = new GtkWindow();
$wnd->set_title('Hello world');
$wnd->connect_simple('destroy', array('gtk', 'main_quit'));

$lblHello = new GtkLabel("Just wanted to say\r\n'Hello world!'");
$wnd->add($lblHello);

$wnd->show_all();
Gtk::main();
?>

Fire up your text editor

$ sudo gedit /usr/share/mobile-broadband-provider-info/serviceproviders.xml

On line 1877 (or around if this file has been updated since I wrote this post) change the APN to m-bb.o2.co.uk from payandgo.o2.co.uk

<apn value="m-bb.o2.co.uk">
 <name>Prepaid</name>
 <username>payandgo</username>
 <password>payandgo</password>
</apn>

If you currently have a connection set in your Network Manager you will need to delete it and add a new mobile broadband connection.  Selecting O2 prepaid will now set you up with a working connection.

If you have no credit, don’t forget the only website you can visit will be O2′s Top Up Website.