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

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

Ik you get error whem 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 

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/