Just Uber

Early last week, under the careful guardianship of Karoo fair-deal-seeker Dylan, the Karoo Unofficial Forums opened its doors to the public.

Almost immediately, the new forums began to see an influx of Karoo users ready to discuss their experiences of Hull’s only Internet provider.

If the first week is anything to go by then I can’t wait to see what the future holds for Karoo Forums.

To see what I mean, and to find out the answers to mysterious questions such as - why Karoo operatives staked out a womans to try and make her swap freeview boxes with them, and how much Karoo will sell Internet to resellers for, check out karooforums.net now.

If you want to say hi to me, you’ll find me in there as lefty

If you pirate copyrighted material, you might as well go out and kill a policeman. But don’t worry, the DMCA will catch up with you eventually!

I know this is just a joke advert, but why do they put these on DVDs anyway. Surely if I were to copy a DVD, this message could be removed in the process!

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Like many people, I’ve got loads of photos stored over at Flickr. This is a sensible thing to do given my love of re-installing Linux every few minutes with total disregard for the files stored on my computer. That is, until I discovered that you can’t actually print directly from flickr if you live in the UK.

I found myself searching for a tool which would allow me to download all of my photos as a batch, so that I could then upload them again to a photo printer.

The best tool I found for Ubuntu is actually a firefox extension. It’s called ‘Firefox Universal Uploader’ and you’ll find it here.

This firefox plugin supports Flickr, Picasa, Youtube, Box.net, Facebook, Webshots and OmniDrive, although I’ve only tried Flickr personally. Downloading is a breeze, and after identifying your account, your photos and folders are shown in a familiar FTP like format. Simply select the ones you want, select the location you want to save them to, and click on the arrow.

Just how I like it, Simple.

Battlestar Galactica: Beyond the Red Line is a 3D space combat simulation which takes place inside the Battlestar Galactica universe. The game is free, and the good folks over at Game Warden have also released a Linux client for it. Here’s how to get it up and running on Ubuntu.

1> Download the game
2> Install GTK 1.2 Libraries “sudo apt-get install libgtk1.2″
3> Run “./BtRLDemoInstaller.run”

Helpful hints

Make sure that you tick the ‘mouse’ tickbox in the options menu, the game is setup as default to use a joystick. You’ll have to repeat this for both single and multiplayer.

If you want to change the screen resolution, edit the file fs2_open.ini which you’ll find in a hidden folder in your home directory called .btrl_demo

Visit the BSG site on GameWarden.com to get the game. Currently only a bittorent file is available. If that’s no good to you, send an email to chris at justuber put-a-dot-here com and I’ll send you a link to download it from my own server.

I set up a desktop the other day which I intend to store some files on. The problem is however, I usually use my laptop, and I’m too lazy to walk upstairs to the desktop.

I’ve always just used ssh to administer servers through the command line, but in this case, this being a desktop, I wanted a GUI.

I’ve tried VNC, remote XSessions, and to be honest they’re both horrible - Not a patch on RDP.

After a quick Google I came across NoMachine NX, and it’s the dogs genitals…..

First of all, install SSH (sudo apt-get install ssh) on both the client and server machines, then follow this procedure for the server machine: (for the client machine, you only need install the client)

Visit the nomachine.com download page

Download and install the .deb files in the following order - client, node, server

Check that nxserver is running

sudo /usr/NX/bin/nxserver --status

and start it if it isn’t

sudo /usr/NX/bin/nxserver --start

Now start the nxclient

/usr/NX/bin/nxclient

Bob’s your uncle. A nice, quick smooth running remote admin tool