Determine uid of my user

First of all we need to know the uid (user ID) of our user. Open a terminal and give this command:

id -u $USER

This will output a number(usually this will be 1000). Keep this number and let’s go to the next step:

Set fstab to mount the disk as the current user

First of all open the /etc/fstab configuration file as root:

gksu gedit /etc/fstab

You will see something like that:

UUID=3C1850B51850703E /media/disk vfat defaults 0 0

Change the defaults to this:

UUID=3C1850B51850703E /media/disk vfat user,uid=1000,utf8 0 0

Where 1000 is your actual userID. We are done, now every time you login the disk will be accessible from your account. In case your disk is NTFS this wont work, but there is another solution which is actually the simpler one:

Configuring through graphical interface

Install ntfs-config by clicking here, or by executing the above command:

sudo apt-get install ntfs-config

Then execute the program by executing:

gksu ntfs-config

Click on both the options, and you are done

Installing Google Chrome in Ubuntu

The installation process is very simple. Open a terminal window (Applications->Accessories->Terminal) and do the above:

1. The first step is to update the sources list. Enter this command:

gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

and add the above lines to the end of that file:


#Google Chrome
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main


2. Save the file and exit the program, and then add the GPG keys by running this command:

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xfbef0d696de1c72ba5a835fe5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5

3. Now we need to update our system:

sudo apt-get update

4. For the end we need to install the Chrome browser:

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

One thing that may look bad to you, is that Chrome uses its own blue theme which looks very ugly with Ubuntu’s earth colors. In case you want to change that, go to the options menu and select the GTK theme from the Personal Stuff tab.

As you may know there is a tool called e2fsck that checks hard disks for problems, but this will work best on an unmounted partition so I really wanted to force Ubuntu to check the disks on boot.

Anyway to do that there are two ways. The hard one that involves the use of the tune2fs command and the easy one which is this:

sudo touch /forcefsck

I know it is funny how easy are things some times

For the record I performed a boot benchmark with ext3 and ext4 and the results are kind of funny. With ext3 file system and ext3 drivers (/etc/fstab) my Toshiba satellite laptop booted in 54 seconds. With ext3 file system and ext4 drivers it took 47 seconds and with ext4 drivers and file system 48 sec!

I know it sounds funny but – according to the documentation – converting your file system to ext4 wont affect the files already present in the disk, but only the files that are going to be written later. So I will have to wait for a kernel update in order to check it again

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sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql phpmyadmin

This way you have a full working LAMP server. Now if you need additional php extensions just open the Synaptics package manager (System -> Administration -> Synaptics Manager) and search for “php”, this will give you all the available options.

Configuration files

In case you need to play with the configuration you can check the above paths that hold the configuration files for the servers we just installed:

/etc/mysql/my.cnf

/etc/apache2/

/etc/php5/apache2/

Starting, stoping and restarting servers

Our servers (apache and mysql) by default will start any time you boot so there is no need to start them. But when you change something in the configuration files you need to restart them in order to get the new directives. The way to do that is the following:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart

In the above commands if you replace the “restart” with “stop” or “start” you can stop or start the server.

Making the environment more friendly

The Apache web server by default will run as www-data. This will lead you to many permission problems, and as this is your development machine, you don’t really care about security. The easiest way to work around this is by changing the user that Apache runs. Open the envvars configuration file:

gksu gedit /etc/apache2/envvars

And then replace the www-data (in the APACHE_RUN_USER and APACHE_RUN_GROUP directives)  with your username and group (usually it is the same)

Then you will need to give full access to your user for the doc root path. You can do that by executing this:

sudo chown -R USER:GROUP /var/www/

Again you should replace USER with your username and GROUP with the group that you belong to.

After that you need one more little adjustment to make phpmyadmin work with this new configuration. Execute this:

gksu gedit /var/lib/phpmyadmin/blowfish_secret.inc.php

and copy the $cfg[‘blowfish_secret’] = ‘…. line. You will need to paste it in the end of this file: /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

Our LAMP server is ready!

Now that you are ready you can start using your LAMP server. Visit http://localhost/ to visit it from your browser or visit http://localhost/phpmyadmin to administer the mySQL server.

The linux community partially fixed that in the past when Knoppix released as a live CD and of course this is something that now is available for every major linux distribution including Ubuntu. Trying linux with a live CD is cool but you can’t add new software or play with it as with a real environment (write data, etc.)

This can be fixed by using a live USB portable drive installation. This way you can store your data, and actually you can get your system wherever you go So let me introduce you to…

uSbuntu live creator

uSbuntu live creator is a lightweight application created by Slÿm, a 24 years old French dude. This nice piece of software works under Windows (XP, 2003 and Vista) and creates bootable USB drives using an Ubuntu ISO image or a CD Rom. Alternatively uSbuntu can download an Ubuntu image for you.

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usbuntu screenshot

After the installation, you just have to change the boot order in BIOS (usually F12 or Del during boot start) and then you can boot with your new Ubuntu installation. The speed of the installation depends on your drive and USB bus, and it can’t be as fast as a normal installation but it is sure that you will be able to check Ubuntu in a better way than a live CD. The only I think I couldn’t do till now with a live USB installation is to upgrade the kernel which is of course something that you wont need to do while you are testing the operating system

You can download uSbuntu live creator from here.

Since Hardy Heron Transmission is the default bit torrent client for Ubuntu, but at least in the Intrepid release the package is outdated as the 1.34 release is used. While I write this the 1.51 is the latest stable release which is included in the Jaunty Jackalope repositories.

Keeping transmission to the latest stable version

If you want to use the new features of Transmission in your pre Jaunty Ubuntu here is what you have to do. First of all we need to add the new repositories to your /etc/apt/sources.list file. This will tell Ubuntu to look for newer versions of software we have installed there too.

1) To do so we need to open a terminal (Applications-> accesories-> terminal) and give the above command:

gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

2) Now add in the end of the text the above lines and save it:

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

If you are using Hardy Heron replace intrepid with hardy, or if you are using 9.04 replace it with jaunty.

3) In the terminal give the above commands:

gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 976b5901365c5ca1
gpg --export --armor 976b5901365c5ca1 | sudo apt-key add -

4) We are almost done. Give this last set of commands in your terminal and your transmission will be upgraded to the latest stable release:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Now we are done. If you are asking yourself if that actually worths the effort, I can assure you that trasmission 1.51 is much better than the 1.34 that Ubuntu 8.10 has and I think that it is also much faster too.

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• It opens/closes just by pressing the F1 button.
• Stays always on top, so it is easy to use it with an open firefox. In other words it is great when you need to copy/paste from a tutorial you read.
• It can be configured to be transparent and to have cool colours. I know this is not so important, but who doesn’t like the eye candy?

How to install/configure Tilda

Tilda appears in the main repositories so the installation is really simple. Just open a Terminal window and execute this:

sudo apt-get install tilda

You are done! Tilda now appears in your Applications->Accesories folder. Here are two things you can do to make it more usable:

1. Adding Tilda to your session

First of all we need Tilda to open each time we login. This way we will be able to hit F1 and get the terminal window. To do so, go to Sessions (System -> Preferences -> Sessions) and add a session:
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This way tilda will open each time we login to our Ubuntu window system. Now we need to tweak tilda a little.

2. Playing around with Tilda settings

Well here the only thing we actually want to do is to make Tilda open hidden. The first time you will open Tilda you will get the Config screen. If you don’t just right click on the Tilda window and go to Preferences. There you should click the “Start Tilda hidden” button. Other cool options are in the “Colors” tab and the “Enable Transparency” in the “Appearance” tab.

We are done. Hit F1 and check your new terminal. Here is a screenshot from my desktop with Tilda open: