“Mini How To” Firefox Looks Ugly In KDE4 Here Is How To Fix It

If you start using Firefox 3.0.3 in KDE4 then you notice it looks very ugly.

Here is how to fix this:
Ramón Antonio Parada (what an awesome name) created a Theme for Firefox.  You can find it at his website.

Here is how it looks:

Now Firefox looks amazing again.

It’s clear to see that a lot of the application developers still have to refine the look of there application in KDE4 but in due time they will all adopt the Oxygen Theme for the uniform look we are used to.  Most of the standard applications already have.

This most be the shortest “Mini How To” ever lol.

**11-20-2008** This how to uses compat-wireless-2008-11-21.tar.bz2. It was tested on (K)Ubuntu 8.10 KDE 4.1.2. Kernel version 2.6.27-7-generic

For instructions on getting it to work on 8.04 click here.

You could see this as part 3 in the series: How To Get Atheros AR242x Wireless To-Work
It’s with disappointment that I have to report the following:

I started with a fresh install of Kubuntu 8.10, the reason for this is simple I wanted to make sure that nobody could say “you should have done a clean install”. On a clean install out of the box the AR242x doesn’t work.

So I started to search for solutions. There a several solutions out there here is a quick list:

The last option worked the best for me so that is what I’ll go with for this how to. Let me clarify that ath_hal, ath5k and ath9k are all developed by madwifi so props to them for doing such a great job of developing the drivers that make wireless for the AR242x work under Linux.
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Wired keyboards proven to be vulnerable. Someone could be reading the magnetic waves coming from the keyboard as you type. Two students of the EPFL in Switzerland experimented. Using 11 keyboards they concluded that all 11 are vulnerable to at least one of the four attacks tested.

How does it work?

Martin Vuagnoux and Sylvain Pasini two students at the computer science lab of EPFL (Security and Cryptography Laboratory in Lausanne) experimented and found the following.

What do you usually type on your keyboard? Passwords to access all online accounts and bank accounts. These passwords could be intercepted. They are able to decode the Electromagnetic Emanations of the keyboard from a distance of 20m (65.6 feet) and even from another room.

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The move from Windows to Linux is easier than ever with Kubuntu. Kubuntu uses the KDE desktop, which has a one button start menu similar to Windows. With a large community behind (K)Ubuntu, help is easy to find. So what are you waiting for? Switch to a free and open source software now.

Introduction

Are you tired of having to refresh your Twitter homepage every five minutes? Then you need Mitter. In this review of Mitter, we also show you how to set it up and give a little background on the Twitter craze.

Why Twitter or Mitter?

Twitter is a micro-blogging tool used by people to post “tweets” of what they are doing at the moment. Some even use it to report to the world about current news events. World disasters, such as the May 2008 earthquake that hit China, have reached Twitter first, before the news media was on the scene to report to the people.

What Is Mitter?

Mitter is a desktop tool that allows you to read and post tweets on your Twitter account. It resides in the task bar for easy access. The Mitter icon will change from a “m” to an “m with a star” when new tweets are posted.

Mitter is written in the Python programing language, PyHildon (similar to PyGTK), so Mitter can be used on both Gnome and KDE.

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Small business often underestimate the importance of a website. When they do get a website, it’s often created by a friend or inexperienced developer - and that can have disastrous consequences.

SSL and why you need it.

When sharing files, just like with anything on Linux, you have more then one option, and you should make your choice based on what you need. We’ll take a look at both SAMBA/CIFS and NFS in this article.

What are the Features of the Two?

I upload images a lot and needed a way to batch resize 35 or more for use.

When putting a photo gallery online with 30 or more images, it sometimes becomes a real drag to scale down one by one.  When I was using Photoshop, I used the automate process to create a macro. However in GIMP, Script-fu is used and is an excellent way for batch editing, but it doesn’t have macro function. Script-fu as name suggests, uses a script for batch editing.

Script-fu was developed to allow a command line access to GIMP. In this case how ever we will be using the user interface version.

I need to find a script to perform the task’s I wanted. Found it on the gimptalk forum.  Yes I could have written a script my self but why waste the time.

There is a downloadable script that doesn’t adjust width and height like I wanted. I wanted to scale the images from 100% to 50%.
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In the Linux world, you can choose from a lot of different file browsers. Each distribution often comes with its own flavor. Krusader is a KDE desktop file browser, but it will work on Gnome as well. In this article, you will find why I think it is great to use.

Why choose Krusader?

If you are like me and use a current version of Kubuntu (here is what I use), then you might find that D3lphin, which is now said to be the standard file browser, is insufficient in providing the more advanced file-browsing options. For one thing, it doesn’t have tabbing, which I use alot. It also doesn’t have a very good built-in search for files. D3lphin uses Strigi, and I haven’t been able to get any good search results from Strigi.

The following link will take you to a website I just started writing to check it out.

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