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So just in case you have to do this, here is a utility to adjusts the MBR so that GRUB doesn’t load any more. After you run this all you have to do is delete the partition.

MBRFix

Then all you need to do is run the command:
MbrFix /drive 0 fixmbr /yes

Download the Essential Codecs package from the mplayers homepage http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

Unzip and move to the directory: /usr/local/lib/codecs (create if it does not exist, need to use SUDO command)

Then run these two lines of code:
cd ~/.gnome2/totem-addons
for file in /usr/local/lib/codecs/* ; do ln -sf $file && chmod +r $file ; done

LAMPP instructions:

Download.
run command: sudo tar -xvzf xampp-linux-1.5.2.tar.gz -C /opt
run command: sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start
run command: sudo /opt/lampp/lampp security
edit php.ini to have a output_buffering value of 4096

Download Sound Juicer

Make sure multiverse is available

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse

edit Sound Jucier settings
Add a profile
For Gstreamerpipline have:
audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc bitrate=128

Save and exit Sound Juicer

add
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe multiverse

To the repos and then download:
libxine-extracodecs

Restart Amarok

To make wireless card bootup automatically

edit /etc/network/interfaces
add:
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
wireless-mode managed
wireless-essid ‘ssid goes here’
wireless-key ‘key goes here’

eth1 is your network interface
essid is your network ssid

To get fonts to show up on flash you must run:

sudo apt-get install gsfonts gsfonts-x11

and restart firefox

Disable IPv6 for Kubuntu/Ubuntu

1. sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/aliases (or your preferred text editor)
2. Find the line: alias net-pf-10 ipv6
3. Edit this to: alias net-pf-10 off
4. Save the file and reboot

This is how you change the default windows manager for linux…

sudo dpkg-reconfigure kdm or gdm

Well happy new year and sorry for the neglect of the past few weeks things have been crazy with people and work. So with the new year came a new version of Linux for my desktop and laptop now I am running Kubuntu. Good distro with a good support forum and IRC channel, uses the new KDE 3.5 so it’s pretty clean. Best part is it supports my wireless cards without any effort.