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After installing Ubuntu Lucid alpha 1 I found out I had to download the OpenTTD data files again, so I decided to create a package for it. It is a very ugly package, but does the trick. Have fun!

You may already know youtube-dl, a popular Python script which allows you to easily download a youtube video. Well, there is another program which mimics this behavior, but works for more then just youtube, and it's called cclive.

CClive started out as a perl program under the name of clive, but the C++ rewrite is simpler and has a smaller memory footprint. Cclive has the same usage as youtube-dl:

I wanted to use this, so I decided to package it for Ubuntu, there was no package available yet, so this blog entry is to tell you about my new PPA entry for cclive. Debian unstable has a package for it already, so for debian you can find it here.

The 0.5.5 release supported sites are

After being annoyed by the snapshot filenames of gitweb, I started looking around. A patch to fix the problem has already been submitted to the gitweb developers and if they see the need it will be part of a future release. Bored of waiting, I tried cgit.

cgit is currently at version 0.8.3 and still needs some testing and security checks before it gets to version 1.0 (according to their own README), but that is no reason not to try it out locally.

At the time of writing there are were no packages available, so I decided to create one and post in to my PPA. If you have apache set up and running and know a bit of what you are doing, get that package and let's take it for a spin.

I use a single panel for all my stuff, so I need to keep it tidy. To access the Gnome menu, you have two applets: the menu applet and the menu bar applet. The menu bar applets shows "Applications Places Systems" which is nice, but takes up a lot of space. The menu applet only uses a single icon, but will hide the your bookmarks quite deep (if you have more then 4 bookmarks). My bookmarks are hidden at Icon → Placed → Bookmarks. To long if you ask me. Meanwhile the menu-bar applet uses to much space on the panel. All this results in an irritated user: me.

Open source to the rescue! I'll show you what I've done to get it to work, if you don't want to know you can just download the Ubuntu Karmic package from my ppa: https://launchpad.net/~bneijt/+archive/ppa

Karmic Koala is out, and here are the metalinks (also attached below):

http://releases.ubuntu.com/karmic/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.metalink
http://releases.ubuntu.com/karmic/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-amd64.metalink

http://releases.ubuntu.com/karmic/ubuntu-9.10-alternate-amd64.metalink
http://releases.ubuntu.com/karmic/ubuntu-9.10-alternate-i386.metalink

http://releases.ubuntu.com/karmic/ubuntu-9.10-server-amd64.metalink
http://releases.ubuntu.com/karmic/ubuntu-9.10-server-i386.metalink

http://releases.ubuntu.com/karmic/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-armel+dove.metalink
http://releases.ubuntu.com/karmic/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-armel+imx51.metalink

Metalinks are a fast way to download them from multiple servers. Under Ubuntu, you can try the command-line client aria2c, or use the Firefox plugin DownloadThemAll on the metalinks above and instantly have it download and check the download.

Aria2c: After installing aria2 (sudo aptitude install aria2) use the command aria2c -M http://the_link_to_the_metalink.

DownloadTemAll: Right click on the link and download it with DownloadThemAll, after it has downloaded the metalink it will realise what it got it's hands on and show a window with the proper links. You will then start to download from the best Ubuntu servers automatically.

It seams that Ubuntu is starting to become a real company: grab money where you can!

Version of Firefox 3.0 (3.0.12+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 by Alexander Sack ) in Ubuntu introduces some new money grabbing features, all part of the "installed by default" Multisearch plugin:

• Searching with the top-right Google plugin is hijacked and sent to the Ubuntu start-page search
• Using search terms in the location bar is hijacked and sent to the Ubuntu start-page search
• Opening a new tab will show the Ubuntu start-page search box instead of whatever you set in the Preferences.

All of these features are installed to create a maximum number of hits on the custom search of Ubuntu, which through the Adsense setup and the partnering keys (partner-pub-2070091971271392:getzo5-xcfi) will push as much traffic (aka money) to Ubuntu.

To open up your ufw firewall for DAAP on the local network (ipv4 rfc 1918), you can issue the following:

To delete them again, use the same but with "delete" just before "allow".

There is a new page on logfish.net, a preview of TrueType fonts available in Ubuntu packages. The previews are pretty large and the whole page weighs in at about 7MB.
You can find it at: http://logfish.net/pr/ubuntufonts/

The Ubuntu MOTU team has brought out some video's on YouTube. Want to see geeks tell you about packaging? Here is how to download them all.

There are actually video's on YouTube which will guide you into becoming a Master of the Universe (in the sense of Ubuntu packaging that is) and you can download them by installing youtube-dl:
sudo aptitude install youtube-dl
and then downloading and executing the attached script. Happy viewing!