Enable the location bar in nautilus ubuntu's file browser.

The more and more I sit with Ubuntu I find myself in gconf-editor doing things, whether it's adding the week to the time (handy in European workplaces), making the minimize maximize and close buttons sit in the correct corner with the correct order, or in this case get that location bar back.

So the steps:

$ gconf-editor

apps->nautilus->preferences->always_use_location_entry

You could do this in one line, but I'm sure there's a few other things in gconf-editor that will keep you busy.

BankID Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit

Ahhh the woes of a 64 bit machine bite again. I'm still Using Ubuntu 10.04 (I haven't seen anything worth upgrading for) so installing BankID isn't a problem as Swedbank's sucurity program has a Ubuntu distribution. But getting it to show up in Firefox is the step that they leave out of the instructions.

The missing line is:

$ nspluginwrapper -i /usr/local/lib/personal/libplugins.so

ns plugin wrapper wraps your 32 bit plugin so that your 64 bit machine can use it. After restarting your browser, in your Tools -> Addons -> Plugins you should see a Nexus entry which is your bank ID.

Now I don't need to switch back to windows for anything.

Open Drums

I wanted to be able to record any ideas I had for drum beats quick and easily. This was much simpler that I expeced.

After getting OpenDrums, and installing a few graphics packages:

$ sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev
$ make

It works like a charm, now to change the default sounds to something a little more realistic.

Canon Pixma MP270 driver in 64bit Ubuntu

Canon provides the 32bit drivers to the Pixma MP270, but not 64 bit driver. Instead of building them from source, just get the 32 bit drivers from canon's site.

In the packages directory there are 2 debs. All you need to do now is:

sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture ./cnijfilter-common_3.20-1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture ./cnijfilter-mp270series_3.20-1_i386.deb

And the printer should work :)