Test repost

This is a test of posting articles back to my old blog

I may be busy in the next few weeks

A new bug has been found that potentially affects all users / versions of Internet Explorer, all 900 million of them

BBC News has more details

That pesky envelope icon

It seems that every time I install Ubuntu I want to get rid of the Envelope icon that indicates new messages in Evolution (which I don't use). And every time, I seem to try several different things to achieve it, usually losing another icon along the way. So here is the best post I've ever seen about how to do it. Why didn't someone say it was this simple!

One sentence answer...

Article from the Reg about useful extras

"The easiest way to get this code – and several other useful extras – is by adding a new repository from a project called Medibuntu. The Medibuntu instructions are on the site, but in brief, copy this and paste it into your command prompt:

sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update

After this, you can just install the last few bits:

sudo apt-get install app-install-data-medibuntu apport-hooks-medibuntu libdvdcss2 w32codecs"

From: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/24/reg_linux_guide_3/page2.html

Delete (or change) the envelope icon from the indicator applet panel

Navigate to
/usr/share/indicators/messages/applications
Delete the evolution file or anything else you want.
If you want to add a new icon to the indicator applet, thunderbird for example, create a new text file in that folder, name it thunderbird and put
/usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop
in it. Restart the gnome panel and... there you go.

Java moves house

Java has moved from the Universe repository to the new Partner one. I must read up about that when I get a chance, it sounds very official and corporate. But for now, I'm just trying to install Sun Java on a customer machine.

Updated Java installation instructions here

Multiple monitors, multiple panels

I have successfully managed to use Twinview with a panel on each monitor, containing only the active windows for that display. Every time I created an extra panel it was immovable, but that was fixed by turning off the "Expand" option in panel properties. Then I just moved it to the bottom of the second screen and added a Window List applet.

So now the panel on my main display shows active windows in that display only, and the second display has its own panel for its own open windows, respectively. I heart this.

I'm currently playing with the Expand option because when it's expanded for some reason minimized windows on the second monitor disappear off the edge of the screen. Gotta be something simple.