I really wanted firefox 4 on my Debian machine, as I did not like iceweasel 3.5 so much (The default firefox clone in Squeeze/Wheezy). As you might have heard, firefox is not completely open, and therefore Debian uses a free clone of Firefox, called Iceweasel.
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Firefox 4 in GNU/Linux Debian
HowTo: Install Notion in Debian/Ubuntu
First of all I’d like to say that the name of this website comes from the Window Manager ion3. When I started with Linux, about two years ago, I was introduced to ion3, a Window Manager that I thought was super awesome.
I used it a lot on my slower boxes, and was saddened to find out that when I tried to install it in Ubuntu 10.04, it said that ion3 was discontinued and the .deb package was no longer maintained by the creator of ion3. It didn’t take long for ion3 to be removed from the official Debian repositories after that. (A new .deb package is still created for Ubuntu, but as of 10.10 it’s no longer in the official repos anymore either).
Thankfully I came across a fork of ion3 today, called Notion. The use of the name ion is forbidden, so the application was called notion. And I’d like to tell you how to install this on Debian/Ubuntu.
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Don’t use Facebook
I read a post by Richard Matthew Stallman on his website earlier, and thought I should share it. I completely share his opinion on this matter, and there are facts to prove he is right.
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A Debian or Ubuntu based fileserver
To get yourself a working Debian/Ubuntu based fileserver, you don’t really need to do a lot. But you’ve got to understand what you are doing.
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Custom search engines in Google Chrome/Chromium
I like adding a few custom search engines for chromium.
For YouTube, you add:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s
as search engine URL in chromium
For Wikipedia, you add:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s
For Remix.Kwed.org, add:
http://remix.kwed.org/index.php?search=%s
Passwordless SSH
I use SSH for a lot of things. Such as X-forwarding, quick access, chatting/IRC and tunneling. And I am also pretty sure that the PC’s I do this from are secure, so I don’t always want to use a password. But this blogpost isn’t only useful for that. If you wish to securely sync files between two computers or servers, ssh is the way to go.
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Adding users in NetBSD
Adding a user in NetBSD and configuring it properly isn’t as easy as it is with other GNU/Linux or BSD distributions. Therefore, you might find this blogpost useful.
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Set a static IP in NetBSD
In NetBSD, each interface has its own configuration file.
These files are located in /etc. For your first interface, you would be configuring /etc/ifconfig.wm0 (If your first interface is called wm0, that is)
To see which interfaces your pc has, type ifconfig -l
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pkgsrc
NetBSD has developed something called pkgsrc over the years. It is a package with the sourcecode of many applications and ports to several distributions. As NetBSD does not really contain a package manager, this one is quite handy to use on your newly installed NetBSD (Or any other BSD!) system.
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