In case you don’t read any other Linux related sites, Flash 9 Plugin is available for download for Linux (and Windows Vista if you are beta testing that too). This is technically still marked as a beta but from what I’ve had a chance to use so far older Flash seems to work a lot faster and better but Flash 9 apps still have a slight performance problem, but still run really good.
Now I can play the Flash 9 games on at http://teagames.com and YouTube films have the audio in sync, yeah! Also found the stand alone player for Flash, not sure if this is new but it is to me! You can get them at the Adobe Labs Flash Player 9 downloads page.
I have made a lot of changes to the install script for the Neverwinter Nights Platinum Editon installation script I’ve been working on. Hopefully it’s a little easier to now to install just the way you want with little or no extra configeration work.
Changes:
- Added the patch 1.68 (final patch from Bioware)
- Improved user support, you can now specify what user it install it as and it will change the driectory permissions to that user.
- Probes the fstab for the CD-ROM
- Automaticly creates a launch script in the install directory
- Creates a Gnome menu launcher icon
This has been tested on xUbuntu with the CD version, if someone finds and errors in the install or quirks with another distro let me know so I can fix it up
Neverwinter Nights Platinum install script install-nwn.sh
I threw this together because the default of black and white for grub was driving me nuts.
I’d give the original artist credit but can’t seem to find where I got it from originally, i think it was at Deviantart and everyone there seems to be looking for the original artist also…
If you’d like one for Ubuntu let me know, they are very easy to make once you know how.
To get this to work in Linux with CUPS you’ll need to get the drivers from Brothers Linux Support. For printing you’ll need to get the LPR and CUPS wrapper for your model.
If you have an RPM or DEB based distro you can easily follow their instructions, but if you have a source based it’ll take some work. I managed to follow denials instructions with successful results, here’s the quick howto.
This should work with any of the Brother models from local printing.
- You need rpm2targz
- Convert the LPR driver and CUPSwrapper into tar.gz files. Replace the package name here with the one yours uses
$ rpm2targz brhl2040lpr-1.1.2-2.i386.rpm
$ rpm2targz cupswrapperHL2040-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm
- unpack the RPMS$ tar xzf cupswrapperHL2040-1.0.0-1.i386.tar.gz
$ tar xzf brhl2040lpr-1.1.2-2.i386.tar.gz
- As root copy the files to their working directories# cp usr/bin/brprintconflsr /usr/bin/.
# cp usr/lib/libbrcomplpr.so /usr/lib/.
# mv usr/local/Brother /usr/local/
- Modify the /usr/local/Brother/cupswrapper/cupswrapperHL2040-1.0.0 script to point to /etc/init.d/cupsd instead of /etc/init.d/cups; this change is required in three locations in this file.
- Run the /usr/local/Brother/cupswrapper/cupswrapperHL2040-1.0.0 script to set up the Brother HL2040 laser.
- Create a symbolic link from /usr/local/Brother/inf/brHL2040rc to /usr/local/Brother/inf/brPrintList.
cd /usr/local/Brother/inf
ln -sf brHL2040rc brPrintList
That should be all and the is available. A test page can e printed from the CUPS web interface at http://localhost:631
If I get to any othe other functions of the printer (scanning, copying, faxing) I’ll update them here, Brother has the drivers for these on the site also so I don’t expect much trouble.
Here’s a little script put together that will check your external IP Address and send an email if that address was to change and include the new IP Address
I suggest putting this in /tmp unless you clean out /tmp completely. This can be run manually but of course the best way is as a cron job, here’s how mine is set which will check at the top of every hour
0 * * * * /tmp/ipcheck/oldip.sh
WhatIsMyIp.com changes their formatting at times so I’ll update my upload script when I need to make changes to keep it working.
Just be sure to make the changes for my email, I really don’t care what other people’s IPs are 
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