My one gripe with my laptop and pretty much any linux distro is the fact that I lost 2-finger scrolling.
Finally, with little searching I have found a solution:
sudo apt-get install gpointing-device-settingsgpointing-device-settingsEnjoy your new 2-Finger Scrolling
Recently a friend of mine purchased a Verizon Novatel MiFi 2200. This was his only option for home broadband, and for playing XBOX Live.
The MiFi has built in port forwarding options for common tasks, but does not allow custom ports or applications to be added. There was no option for XBOX Live, and no amount of tweaking allowed the XBOX to connect properly. You could play just fine, but partying up was impossible.
After I thought all hope was lost I read that some users had had success with a device called a CradlePoint. The device was rather pricey, and just not an option for something that wasn’t a sure thing.
After thinking about it off and on for about a month I came to the conclusion that the CradlePoint had to be using the MiFi as a USB modem, a feature that is easily accomplished with DD-WRT. So I grabbed an old router (with a USB port), flashed DD-WRT, set everything up an violla! It worked! Yes, there are some latency issues, but the result is a very playable XBOX live experience.
Now, onto the important part, how to do it.
Required materials:
The Setup:
NOTE:
If you still can’t get open NAT enable uPnP or forward the necessary ports.
Conclusion:
Ideally a usb modem paired with the same router set-up would have been much better than the MiFi. However, if you are stuck with a MiFi, it works, and that’s all that matters.
Recently I switched hosts and upon transferring my sites quickly noticed that I was having some PHP: out of memory errors.
I only use the bare minimum plugins and have all of my themes optimized to limit PHP usage. I don’t use widgets, and if it can be hard coded using plain html, it is.
But still, I was out of memory. After some research I found that most of my issues were occurring in the admin panel, and not the main site. While this was a relief, this did leave me with limited admin functionality.
I was able to correct the issue by increasing my php memory limit from 32mb to 64mb, but I hardly feel this is a solution.
Why is wordpress using so much memory? This is a question that I feel needs investigated.
A Solution: Allow users to put together a custom wordpress install, just enabling features that are needed for that particular blog.
I do not need al of the feeds on the admin homepage, I do not need template editors, I do not need widgets, I do not need trackbacks or pingbacks, I do not need a plugin editor…. The list goes on.
So why not allow advanced users the option to install what would essentially a vanilla version of wordpress? Sure, I could make these changes now, but it makes updating a pain because everything would have to be re-applied.
For now this is just something to think about, but if you have any input as to how I am wrong (as I’m sure I am) feel free to leave a comment.
UPDATE:
After testing several builds of DD-WRT I was unable to get port forwarding working. While uPNP did the job, it just wasn’t what I wanted. After fighting with DD-WRT I flashed Tomato. Tomato has been running stable ever since. I have yet to encounter a single issue. I highly recommend Tomato for this router.
After all of the troubles with the Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH, I decided it was time to upgrade. After a bit of research, I decided on the Asus RT-N16.
Pros:
Cons:
DD-WRT
It was extremely easy to upgrade the router to DD-WRT following the steps on the DD-WRT wiki. I flashed the mega build and while it is a step up over the stock firmware, it still has it’s flaws. Most specifically port forwarding is not working. This resulted in having to run UPnP which I normally do not like to do.
Supposedly the brainslayer or eko builds perform better, and may well have the port forwarding issue fixed, I have just yet to try them.
Flashing DD-WRT: http://dd-wrt.ca/wiki/index.php/Asus_RT-N16#Installation_:
Tomato
The general consensus is that TomatoUSB runs better, and is more featured than DD-WRT on this router. But I have yet to use Tomato on any router. I will be testing it to see which runs better.
To-Do:
Adding the ability to edit Android apps (apk’s) in Ubuntu is fairly easy, but lacks documentation. The following steps are what worked for me on my system, but please continue at your own risk. Since every system is different, I can’t guarantee that this will work for you, but it should serve as a good basis.
Things you will need:
Setting up the Android SDK:
To start with we will set up the Android SDK as APK manager relies on it.
First download the Android-SDK for linux from here. Once downloaded extract it somewhere to your system (I chose my user folder for ease of access).
If you don’t have Java JDK installed you will need to do so by running the following:
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
Once this is done you will need to install the Andoid SDK addon “Platform-tools” as APK manager relies on it to function.
To do so navigate to the following path (be sure and replace with the actually path you extracted to):
/path-to-extracted-android-sdk/tools/
Once here, locate the file called “android.” Double click it and select run.
After the graphical interface is loaded, select “Available Packages” in the right hand column. This will open up a list of package Repos in the center column. Expand the “Android Repository” and place a check by “platform-tools.” Now click install selected and let it do it’s magic.
The SDK (with platform tools) is now set-up and ready to use.
Adding the Android SDK to your path
At this point you have the Android SDK and Platform-Tools installed. This means that you can use them, but only within the directory where they exist. This is very inconvenient, so we are going to make them accessible anywhere by running the following commands (be sure and replace with the actually path you extracted to):
export PATH=$PATH{}:/home/user/android-sdk-linux_x86/tools
export PATH=$PATH{}:/home/user/android-sdk-linux_x86/platform-tools
Installing APK Manager dependencies:
APK manager requires a few packages to run. Every system will be different, but my system was lacking optiping and 7zip. To install them run the following:
sudo apt-get install optiping p7zip-full
If you are on a 64bit system you may also need the following:
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
Installing APK Manager
Finally, after all the prep work we are ready to install APK Manager.
First download the package from here.
Next, extract it somewhere on your system. (again, I chose my user folder)
Now open the terminal and navigate to the extracted APK manager and set the permissions of all the files in the folders to 755.
Example (in terminal):
chmod -R /home/user/apkmanager
To finish up the installation you will want to run APK Manager. This first run will create the necessary folders to place your APK to be edited ect.
Run APK Manager by executing Script.sh inside the APK manager directory.
cd /home/user/apkmanager
./Script.sh
All finished
Assuming all went well you should now be all set-up, and ready to start using APK Manager to edit your APKs.