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I love lifehacker.com.  I always find usefull posts like this one below.

http://lifehacker.com/5057484/remove-u3-to-speed-up-your-flash-drive

This is very useful for us Linux users.  It’s so annoying to plug a u3 drive into a linux o/s.  Anyhow download the utility and clean up your U3 enabled usb thumb drive here:  http://www.u3.com/uninstall/default.aspx

There is so much great software available for ubuntu. This weekend I ran into subsonic, an excellent music streaming website you can host from your own PC. This can be used over LAN or WAN (be careful with security).

I followed the following url’s excellent instructions, but I’ll include them for future usage.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=920178

URL: http://subsonic.sourceforge.net

Step1: Dependencies

sudo apt-get install tomcat5.5

cd; wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/subsonic/subsonic-3.4.zip

Step2: Modify Init For Tomcat & Start

sudo nano /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5

Change TOMCAT_SECURITY=yes to TOMCAT_SECURITY=no

sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 start

Step3: Unzip/Install Subsonic

unzip subsonic-3.4.zip

mv subsonic.war /var/lib/tomcat5.5/webapps/

mkdir /var/subsonic

chown tomcat55:nogroup /var/subsonic

Step4: Test

firefox http://127.0.0.1:8180/subsonic

Browsing around lifehacker.com I ran across an article on how to create a bootable linux usb thumbdrive. This is by far the easiest method that I’ve run across.

• Download the utility.
• Open the utility and download one of the supported linux iso’s.
• Plug your usb thumb drive into your computer (utility is linux or windows, so you can do this from either)
• Point the utility at the iso you downloaded and the correct usb thumb drive.
• execute, wait and reboot off of your newly created bootable thumb drive.

article with better detail on process:
http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/08/27/create-a-bootable-usb-drive-or-memory-card/

direct link to the utility download page:
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

I’ve been saving this link to zdnet to check out for later usage.  I need to format a usb drive and set this up, looks very useful….

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1873&tag=nl.e539

Found this via the old google search which landed me upon the how to geek’s friendly advice:

In Gnome select “System->Prefrences->Sound->System Beep Tab

You’ll see the checkbox.  The link to the site I found this is below.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/disable-the-system-beep-on-ubuntu-edgy/

The Ubuntu website has a good tutorial on chmod.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FilePermissions

I found this url in the endless ubuntuforms.org. These steps worked great for me. In order to get this working correctly you must know your external ip and/or dns name and also have ssh installed with the correct port (22) forwarded to the machine in question.

Start by setting up your repos:
Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://www.datakeylive.com/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://www.datakeylive.com/ubuntu gutsy main

This next step failed for myself, but is only the repo apt-key and didn’t cause the install to fail:

wget http://www.datakeylive.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/wjeremy.key | sudo apt-key add -

Then run good ol: sudo apt-get update

This next step will install the packages required:

sudo apt-get install expect openssh-server tcl8.4 libxcomp2 libxcompext2 libxcompshad nxlibs nxagent nxproxy nxclient freenx

You can check to make sure it installed correctly by executing:

sudo apt-get -f install

sudo apt-cache show expect openssh-server tcl8.4 libxcomp2 libxcompext2 libxcompshad nxlibs nxagent nxproxy nxclient freenx | grep “Unable”

I needed to add the following to the bottom of /etc/X11/xorg.conf (make sure to back your’s up first!)

Section “Files”

# path to defoma fonts
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1″
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi”
FontPath “/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi”
FontPath “/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType”
EndSection

You’ll need to download the following file ( i used my home directory)

nxcupsd-wrapper

You need to set the permissions on that last file downloaded to make it work right:

chmod a+x nxcupsd-wrapper
sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp

Now you need to add a user that is able to remote in; replace xxxx with username:

sudo nxserver –adduser xxxx

On your remote machine make sure to install the client and you’re good to go!