Monday, January 30, 2012

Linux x86_64 Firefox or Chome

I am a firefox fan, have been using it ever since its initial release.

But have to admit firefox doesn't work well on x86_64 linux platform.
I have a HP workstation z600 which has 12core/12G memory, but firefox
failed to response to a lot of website in a timely manner.

Just tried chrome x86_64 on my desktop, much better, strongly recommend.

http://www.tejasbarot.com/2011/03/20/howto-installing-google-chrome-on-rhel-6-red-hat-enterprise-linux-6-32bit-64bi/

Monday, January 9, 2012

How to mount windows share folder

sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.152.132/share/ /mnt/local/ -o username="Jian Wang"

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Ubuntu add ppstream support

My ubuntu is 11.10 oneiric

1.
sudo apt-get install libqt4-core libqt4-dbus libqt4-gui libqt4-
network libqt4-webkit libqt4-xml libfuse2 mplayer

download pps.deb file
http://wowubuntu.com/pps.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium

dpkg -i pps.deb

No sound
tools->options-> sound device choose alsa-pci(2nd one) for my specific hardware, HP 8540w laptop.



2. Use totem plugin:
@wnh3yang: totem-pps was renamed to totem-plugin-pps and is only available for Natty (11.04) at the moment.
vi /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/portis25/cnav/ubuntu natty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/portis25/cnav/ubuntu natty main