Locating the desire of Themes

I worked with CodeIgniter and Ubuntu as my Operating System. As a coder, geany is really helping me to full fill my project and its fascinating me. Friend of mine using Textmate and its nice looking and quite fast when I look and try it at his Mac Book Pro. Is geany could do that like Textmate ? So, Geany vs Textmate after I wrote about Textmate vs E-Text Editor when I use Windows as my Operating System.

Why not :), today I found Dark Color Scheme like textmate and also I’ve found HTML and PHP Snippets. How to make this happened, here’s I give you how to do it :

Dark Color Scheme

Download Dark Color Scheme and extracted into /usr/share/geany (overwrite all files)

Open your geany application and you have change into the Dark Color Scheme.

HTML Snippets

Tomasz Karbownicki has written some nice snippets for use in HTML files and even made a great video demonstrating them.

The snippets file: http://citizen.ovh.org/stuff/snippets.conf
The video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xCGqOt4C4I
The related blog post (in Polish): http://karbownicki.com/2008/05/07/snippety-w-geany/

PHP Snippets

Atanas Beloborodov has written some nice snippets for use in PHP files.
http://www.geany.org/files/contrib/php_snippets.conf

Copy snippets.conf and php_snippets.conf into /usr/share/geany (overwrite all files).

All you have to do is write your code and pres TAB at you keyboard then you will have your code instantly.

Example :

HTML : just type input then press TAB, you will have

<code><input type=”text” name=”" /></code>

PHP : when you tipe for then press TAB, you will have

<code>for ($i = 0; $i < ; $i++)
{

}

</code>

Notes: This action can be use on the following extension files, so if you file .php you can only use php_snippets.conf also if you use .html files you can only use snippest.conf

Finally, today Ubuntu released 8.10 Version at the last of the month so it still could say the 8.10 Version. The code name was Intrepid Ibex. You can download at ubuntu Intrepid Ibex or order some CD to delivered into your home for FREE.

Upgrading Ubuntu from 8.0.4 (Hardy Heron) into 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) was not so difficult, but you need an Internet resources. Here’s the step by step of upgrading the Intrepid Ibex :

1. Start System | Administration | Software Source
2. click on the “Updates” tab and change “Show new distribution release” to “Normal releases“
3. Start System | Administration | Update Manager
4. Click the Check button to check for new updates.
5. If there are any updates to install, use the Install Updates button to install them, and press Check again after that is complete.
6. A message will appear informing you of the availability of the new release.
7. Click Upgrade.
8. Follow the on-screen instructions.

Usually I used Firefox as the default browser and also download directly by Firefox Download Manager. But recently I need to paused and resume my download files because it’s huge file and I must paused and resume later.

Well, usually I used wget with all the stuff but I like GUI better than command line application, so I tried to search in google with the keyword “download manager ubuntu“. I have found several GUI DOWNLOAD MANAGER for Ubuntu especially I use it for my Hardy Heron.

1. Multi Get

This application already complete with many feature and of course can be resume. But till now I couldn’t use with more than 10 thread. I don’t why the developer limit the thread. I recommended MultiGet as your GUI Download Manager.

Download.

2. Downloader for X

In the command line it said d4x. It’s easy to install just use this command :

sudo apt-get install d4x

I like this application too, completed like MultiGet and plus Schedule mode. Number of thread or split files also 10 files. I don’t why developer love with the number 10.

3. ProzGUI

ProzGUI is the development of Prozilla. ProZilla is command line downloader and this will suck up your Internet bandwidth. I like the ProZilla because it can split as much as you want. Unfortunately we can’t do it in the ProzGUI. ProzGUI has 30 maximum file to split and it’s to simple so I can’t do more than just download. If you’d like to try you can download using Synaptic Package Manager, but you must added in the repository this command line first :
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sarge main
Click at System | Administration | Software Resources and choose Third Party and add those command. And then you can reload install at the Synaptic Package Manager.

I have try several application in Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.0.4 to mount ISO Image files as Virtual Drive in my Ubuntu. But if you want to know how to create ISO Image file in Ubuntu, I have posted in here. And here’s some application that I’ve tried :

1. gisomount

If you want to install it just went to System | Administration | Synaptic Package Manager, and then find gisomount and install it. Command line using terminal :

<code>sudo apt-get install gisomount </code>

How to use it :

Open terminal, and type :

<code> sudo gisomount </code>

gisomount screenshot

2. gmountiso

The same way like above, or using terminal command line :

<code>sudo apt-get install gmountiso </code>

Then you can use at Applications | System Tools | Gmount-iso.

Gmount-sio Screenshot

I hope this can help you to have a Virtual Drive from ISO Image in Ubuntu 8.0.4

It’s simple, follow these steps :

Create ISO from CD/DVD

1. unmount CD/DVD, if it automount then unmount it.
2. Use this command line at terminal :

dd if=/dev/dvd of=dvd.iso # for dvd
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cd.iso # for cdrom
dd if=/dev/scd0 of=cd.iso # if cdrom is scsi

another way use this :


readcd dev=/dev/cdrom f=file.iso #for cdrom

If you like using Graphical Interface you can use Brasero Disc Burning. How to do it, here’s the screenshot :

Brasero Disc Burning :

Choose Disc Copy

Select destination drive to write into File image

Click on Properties and then choose file format *.iso images and write the filename on.

Click Apply after choosing the filename and then click Copy, wait untill everything is done.

Previously I used Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 as my Operating System at my PC and I don’t have much problems choosing which media player if I want to play some DVD or MP3. I have Winamp, Windows Media Player (as default), and my last player VLC Player.

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Right now I use Ubuntu 8.0.4 with all the stuf within.  I use Totem Movie Player 2.22.1 as default multimedia player in my PC. It run well at the first time, I use it for playing MP3. But today when I tried to play SmallVille Session 6 DVD Version, suddenly it stuck and I can’t play it. So, I decided to install VLC player from the repositories and yes it run well and now I can play any multimedia I’d like to play.

Upgrading Virtualbox into 2.0.2 from 2.0.0 is not hard and it’s easy to do. All that you need is just install from Synaptic Package Manager and update Virtualbox. I hope my problem will solved when I want to transfer file from client into host, because at the previous release when I want to transfer file from client (windows XP) to Host (ubuntu 8.04), Windows always error “Core Dump” and I must restart the virtualbox.

Eventually my dream has not come true after updating VIrtualbox it still happen when I want to make a transfer files. What I do now is transfering via ftp from client to host. Anyone has the same problem with me and already has the solution ?

There are many ways to install this VirtualBox 2.0 that has been release this september 4, 2008. You can easily download here at VirtualBox.org and follow the step by step. But, you download by repository too and you don’t have to download manually. Here’s how it works :

1. Add the virtualbox repository to /etc/apt/sources.list
gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Add these lines at the bottom :
# Innotek repository for VirtualBox
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian hardy non-free

2. Update your sources and install. You may use Synaptic or the following commands.
Enabled it first the third party of repository.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox
And then follow the rest of installation.

3. Add your user to the vboxusers group
GUI System ? Administration ? Users and Groups ? Manage groups
CLI :
sudo groupadd vboxusers
sudo usermod -G vboxusers -a
Change with your username.

4. Launch VirtualBox via Applications ? System Tools ? Sun xVM VirtualBox
Change to the user name you wish to allow to run VirtualBox
If the link wasn’t shows up, you need to reboot you linux.