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I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 yesterday, it seems cool except being hard to personalize the GUI.

Using Text Mode Location Bar was disabled like the previous releases but i was able to enable it from preferences. Natty has no option for that. By knowing that in linux there is always an alternative way to solve such problems i have started search the solution for this and i have end up with the following command which permanently enables the text mode location bar for nautilus:

$ gconftool-2 --type=Boolean --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_location_entry true

The command changes /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_location_entry boolean parameter to be true where nautilus checks whether to always use the location bar in text mode. It’s also possible to switch location bar to text mode for the instance with the shortcut CTRL+L but when the directory changes it returns to its default.

I was uncomfortable with the default configuration but if somehow someone gets lock with text mode location bar and don’t like it to be so the parameter could be set to false with the following command:

$ gconftool-2 --type=Boolean --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_location_entry false

Today I have bought Logitech MX 1100. This mouse is a bit bigger but its usefulness and its ergonomic design covers the its size.

It has some key features for me, these are : hyper-fast scrolling, laser optics, long battery life and full compatibility with Linux. I wanna mention them in detail:

Hyper-fast Scrolling : The wheel of mouse has 2 modes which can be switched by the button right behind the wheel. First mode is the normal mouse wheel that we all know, the second is hyper-fast scrolling. In the second mode when you pushed the wheel forward or backward then it continue to turn around for some seconds on its own. It enables you to scroll long pages really fast.

Laser Optics : The most important advantage of Laser mouses for end-user is capability of working on almost every surface you can imagine, while optical mouse can have issues on shiny or black surfaces.

Long Battery Life : After 9 months I am going to see if the estimated time is correct or not.

It’s really worth to buy it, you won’t regret.

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These days I am really into Amarok and music. Maybe its because my continuing graduation project about digital filtering. I’m interested in and working on sound signals.

Today I had a question mark on my mind; why I couldn’t use my multimedia keys of my notebook on Amarok? By default I could use the multimedia keys with native gnome players such as totem, Rhythmbox and etc. Since I couldn’t find satisfying native media player on gnome, so I prefer Amarok.

After a goggling session i have found an Amarok Script in the kde-apps.org which is called Gnome Multimedia Keys 2. By installing it my blue leded multimedi keys work like a charm.

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In fact i have started to hate Last.fm after blocking non-subscribed users out of US, UK and Germany to listen music on their system. I have searched similar sites to consider my music taste and give me same mixture of songs. I must confess that i couldn’t find one like Last.fm .

Around these thoughts first i tried some tricks to listen music on it but it was nothing but a failure. Then i have decided to use last.fm to determine mine music taste by scrobbling. So I could benefit from its recommendations. But there were a small problem, my favorite music player couldn’t scrobble my statistics…

I have been using Ubuntu and Amarok for a long long time. Amarok has Last.fm plugin for years that enables both listening and scrobbling. But this time after doing configuration Amarok couldn’t able to save my login information that ask everytime. As a programmer i guess by not having the login information Amarok couldn’t be able to call Web Service to scrobble songs which needs authentication…

Lets cut the long story short, since Amarok is native KDE application it wants to save the login information for Last.fm to KDE Wallet, but in Ubuntu, i don’t have KDE Wallet installed and i don’t wanna have. We should say Amarok to ignore wallet! If we do so Amarok will save data on plain text. It’s not safe at all but its not a big deal for me and for the majority i thing. To do this the file ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc should be edited. To edit this file it should be opened by an editor, it could be gedit, nano, vi, vim, emacs, etc. whatever you want. In following command-line example i used vim.tiny which is one of the default editors in Ubuntu:
$ vim.tiny ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc

In editor Service_LastFm section should be found which seems like:
[Service_LastFm]
fetchSimilar=false
ignoreWallet=no
scrobble=true
sessionKey=

The bold line “ignoreWallet=no” should be changed:
[Service_LastFm]
fetchSimilar=false
ignoreWallet=yes
scrobble=true
sessionKey=

After this changed made, Amarok should be restarted if it was open. Then you sould do your Last.Fm configurations from Settings. Then it will write login information to the file that was edited. Both username and password could be seen from that file. Better not to share that file after this configuration!

Kind Regards..

Bir önceki yazıda kulaklık sesi bozuyo tarzı ÅŸeyler söylemiÅŸtim… Ama hepsini geri alıyorum … Sesi hoperlörden nasıl alıyorsam o ÅŸekilde iletiyor bu arkadaÅŸ… Tamamen Mikropsoftun bir ürünü olan Vista’nın salaklığı diyebiliriz…

Amarokta ÅŸu anda dinliyorumda sesi süper veriyor… Aldığıma ÅŸimdi tam manasıyla memnun oldum.

Firefox 3ü bugün kurdum… HerÅŸey iyi güzelde ErtuÄŸ sayesinde kurduÄŸum temamın Firefox 3 e desteÄŸi yokmuÅŸ. Kullanmaya yeni baÅŸlamıştım ama alışkanlık yapmıştı. Bunun varsayılan teması çok yer kaplıyor. Bana ufacık tefecik biÅŸey lazım.

Biraz aceleci olabilirim ama alışkanlıklardan feragat etmek zor oluyor. Olmadı downgrade ederim

Belçikada dedikleri bir garip ülke, interneti bile limitli , 12gb limit dayanmıyo ki … Bir gün daha dayansan ya, Ubuntu Alfa user olalım

Almanyada piyasaya sürülen bir Linux paketi olan Ubuntu Linux’un en son sürümü olan 5.10 (Breezy Badger) 64bit desteÄŸi ile beraber çıktı. Bir kaç gün önce indirmiÅŸ olmama raÄŸmen CD ye bile çekemedim. ancak bu hafta sonu ilk iÅŸ olarak Amd64 ümü ilk defa dilinden anlayan bir iÅŸletim sistemiyle buluÅŸturup güzelleÅŸtrimek olacak.