Ubuntu

NDISwrapper

NDISwrapper is a free software driver wrapper that enables the use of Microsoft Windows drivers for wireless network devices.

Download the windows driver wich contains the .inf file
Install with ndiswrapper -i drivername.inf
check the device id with lsusb or lspci -n
Now execute with ndiswrapper -a deviceid driver

ndiswrapper -a 0bda:8197 net8187b

check the installed drivers

ndiswrapper -l

Write the configuration for modprobe

ndiswrapper -m

And use the module

modprobe ndiswrapper

Compiz

To enable compiz install the Nvidia drivers and install CompizConfig Settings Manager

sudo apt-get install simple-ccsm

Now navigate to system > preferences > Appereance And go to the Visual effects tab. Choose custum there

On Kubuntu change the default windows manager

System Settings -> Default Applications -> Windows manager

Desktop Effects	Keyboard Shortcuts
Rotate Cube Manually	Ctrl + Alt + Left Mouse Button
Expo	Super + E (toggle)
Rotate Cube	Mousewheel on Desktop
Film Effect	Ctrl + Alt + Down Arrow
Scale Windows	Alt + Shift + Up Arrow
Ring Switcher	Super + Tab - overrides Shift Switcher

Super key is the windows key :-)

Mount Network Share

First install smbfs

apt-get install smbfs

Then create a folder inside of the /media directory to mount the share on or choose you're own directory

sudo mkdir /media/Storage

Create a credentials file in /root so that you can save your password and have it protected by the root account:

sudo gedit /root/.cifscredentials

Add this to the file

username=Guest
password=

sudo vi /etc/fstab Add the following line

//192.168.0.10/SHARENAME /media/Storage cifs auto,iocharset=utf8,uid=USER,gid=users,credentials=/root/.cifscredentials,file_mode=0775,dir_mode=0775 0 0

To check if the file works

sudo mount -a

And you should see you're drives on the desktop

Ik you get error when you shut down the pc CIFS VFS: server not responding then you have to unmount first. Do this with the following

ln -s /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh /etc/rc0.d/K15umountnfs.sh
ln -s /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh /etc/rc6.d/K15umountnfs.sh

Citrix Ica client

Download the Linux citrix ica client from Citrix

http://citrix.com/English/SS/downloads/details.asp?downloadID=3323&productID=-1 

Install the 32bits libraries if youŕe working on a 64bits platform

apt-get install ia32-libs

Install the Open-motif libraries

apt-get install libmotif3

citrix 11 requires openmotif 2.3.1 Download the rpm package for openmotif 2.3.1, I used:

ftp://ftp.ics.com/openmotif/2.3/2.3.1/openmotif-2.3.1-1.RHEL3.0.i386.rpm

To convert a rpm package to a debian package. Use alien to convert the rpm to a deb package

alien -d openmotif-2.3.1-1.RHEL3.0.i386.rpm

Then install the package in the usual way. Note, before installing the alien'ed package it is best to uninstall the previous version of motif, as this will not update the existing motif package.

dpkg -i openmotif_2.3.1-2_i386.deb

Unpack the package and execute the installation script

./setupwfc

Find the plugin directory of firefox. Probably is /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/ otherwise use

find / -name plugins | grep -i "netscape\|firefox\|mozilla"

Create a symlink to the citrix ica library

ln –s /usr/lib/ICAClient/npica.so npica.so

If you open a connection to your citrix server. The browser will ask you if you want to open or save the session. Browse to the ica client

/usr/lib/ICAClient/wfica

and tell it to use it for all applications.

When you get a ssl error "you have not chosen to thrust....." Then copy the certificate in this location.

/usr/lib/ICAClient/keystore/cacerts/

For 64Bits OS

Install Needed 32-bit Open Motif libraries to /usr/lib32

Setup a temporary environment

mkdir -p ~/tmp/Citrix
cd ~/tmp/Citrix

Download a recent i386 libmotif3 .deb package to the above folder

wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/o/openmotif/libmotif3_2.2.3-1.4_i386.deb

Use dpkg to extract the package

dpkg -x libmotif3*i386.deb libmotif

Copy the libraries to /usr/lib32

sudo cp libmotif/usr/lib/*.so.* /usr/lib32/
sudo cp -r libmotif/usr/lib/X11/bindings /usr/lib32/X11/

Make DVD

To make a video DVD you can burn you're image on the dvd. If you just have the VIDEO_TS files then the easiest way is to convert these into a iso.

mkisofs -dvd-video -o ~/moviename.iso /path/to/the/VIDEO_TS

/path/to/the/VIDEO_TS path is for example /moviename not /moviename/VIDEO_TS

FFMPEG

Is a video converter tool

#>/usr/bin/ffmpeg -i "00059.MTS" -vcodec flv -f flv -r 25 -s 356x200 -aspect 16:9 -b 2000k -g 160 -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -mbd 2 -flags +aic+cbp+mv0+mv4 -trellis 2 -acodec libmp3lame -ac 2 -ar 44100 -ab 256k "stacaravan1.flv"