How to Install Bejeweled on Ubuntu

Filed under Desktop, Games, howto, Linux, Tips, Ubuntu by on January 17, 2012 at 11:00 am {no comments}

Bejeweled is very popular game for PalmOS / Windows / Java based phone. Now you can also play the same game on your Ubuntu desktop by installing Gweled. Gweled is a GNOME version of Bejeweled or Diamond Mine.

The aim of the game is to make alignment of 3 or more gems, both vertically or horizontally by swapping adjacent gems. The game ends when there are no possible moves left.

Here’s how to install and play Gweled on Ubuntu:

Step 1 Issue the following command at the terminal

sudo apt-get install gweled

Step 2 After the installation is complete, go to Menu > Games > Gweled to start the game. Else type gweled in console.


That’s it. Enjoy your game.

Install Mario On Ubuntu

Filed under Desktop, howto, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Software, Tips, Ubuntu by on December 22, 2011 at 11:18 am {no comments}

Mega Mario is a Mario clone + blood. In the game you play Mario and your task is to free his brother Luigi, who was captured by the evil Bowser. Mario is controlled by Keyboard or Gamepad using the Arrowkeys to walk, Space / A to jump and CTRL / B to run/fire. After reaching a castle the game is saved and can be continued at any time by clicking on “Load Game”.

Mega Mario also features a blood-mode, which makes killed enemies spread their blood all over the level! And if you have fun to create your own levels after completing the game, you can use the Level-Editor (read “Editor.txt”).

You can download Mega Mario from here

To install Mega Mario on Ubuntu you have to add following lines in /etc/apt/sources.list

Note : I am using Ubuntu 11.04. For this version repository owner do not have any packages. Then also you can add following lines in your sources.list file. It will work.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pratikmsinha/freethinkers.packages/ubuntu lucid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/pratikmsinha/freethinkers.packages/ubuntu lucid main

Now run,

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install megamario

That’s it. It will install Mega Mario on your machine. Just run megamario in your terminal and you are ready to play the game.

megamario

In case of any problem please let me know.

Create hotspot in Ubuntu 11.10

Filed under Basic, Cellphones, Desktop, Hardware, howto, Linux, Monitoring, Network, Software, System, Tips, Ubuntu, Ubuntu by on December 12, 2011 at 11:28 am {no comments}

Recently I need to access my Internet from my blackberry device. I already using Connectify to run my windows machine as a wifi-hotspot, but due to some reason on my laptop windows was not working. So I thought I should find some alternative to create a wifi hotspot in Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 11.10 gives user easy way to turn their computer into hotspot. You can simply do it without installing any application.

To get started got to the Application > System Tools > System Settings > Network Setting > Wireless. You will see the following screen in your Computer.

Click on Use as Hotspot. You hotspot will be immediately create with the SSID name “UBUNTU”. If you want to change it go to configure

1st field is for assigning a name for a connection. 2nd field is for enabling security in hotspot connection. 3rd field is for assigning SSID as a unique name. 4th field is for cloning your MAC address.

To Configure wireless security, select different security mode of your desire and put your desired password.

That’s it. Your wifi hotspot is ready in Ubuntu.
If you are using any other software or method please let us know the same.

How to PXEBoot Clonezilla

Filed under Desktop, Hardware, howto, Linux, PXE, Server, Software, System, Tips, Ubuntu by on December 3, 2011 at 10:52 am {no comments}

Requirement
PXE Server
CloneZilla bootable iso / zip

Download & mount / extract clonezilla iso / zip.

Create folder on existing pxe server

mkdir -p /tftpboot/images/clone/

Copy vmlinuz, initrd & filesystem from clonezilla mount location

cp live/vmlinuz /tftpboot/images/clone/
cp live/initrd.img /tftpboot/images/clone/
cp live/filesystem.squashfs /tftpboot/images/clone/

Append following lines in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default

label Clonezilla Live
MENU LABEL Clonezilla Live
kernel images/clone/vmlinuz
append initrd=images/clone/initrd.img boot=live live-config noswap nolocales edd=on nomodeset ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_keymap="" ocs_live_batch="no" ocs_lang="" vga=788 nosplash fetch=tftp://192.168.1.2/images/clone/filesystem.squashfs

Here 192.168.1.2 is pxe server

Above config will boot clonezilla using pxe & you’ll get prompt to choose lang, mount image source dir etc.

OR you can use following config to skip lang selection & mount option, however it will still prompt you to select image source but you can skip & continue as we have mentioned nfs server in following config.

label Clonezilla
MENU LABEL Clonezilla
kernel images/clone/vmlinuz
append initrd=images/clone/initrd.img boot=live live-config noswap nolocales edd=on nomodeset ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_keymap="NONE" ocs_live_batch="yes" ocs_lang="en_US.UTF-8" vga=788 nosplash fetch=tftp://192.168.1.2/images/clone/filesystem.squashfs ocs_prerun="mount -t nfs 192.168.1.2:/storage/clonezilla /home/partimag"

Here 192.168.1.2:/storage/clonezilla is clonezilla image location. You can also use other options like samba instead of nfs.

SOURCE@LINUXREADERS

Print Screen When Select Menu Item on Ubuntu

Filed under Basic, Desktop, howto, Linux, Software, System, Tips, Ubuntu, Ubuntu by on December 1, 2011 at 11:05 am {no comments}

When you mouseover an item at the top bar of your Ubuntu desktop or any window while selecting particular menu, and press PrtSc (Print Screen, Screen Grab) to make a screen capture, you won’t be able to see selected active screen.

I found a really cool trick to take screen shot of active window while selecting menu option. To take a sceen shot go to Applications->Screen shot

then you will see the window like the on below:

Type in the number of seconds you want to delay, and Press Take Screen shot. Before the delay, go to the item you want to capture in the screen. After the preset delay time’s up, the screen shot will be taken and you can see everything in the picture!

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