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Ubufox is an extension which makes it's possible to install extensions by apt. But it is said that it have some conflicts with other extensions like

AdBlock Plus

NoScript

Tabs Mix Plus

Web Developer Toolbar

Text Formatting Toolbar

Forecastbar Enhanced (a better Forecastfox)

Greasemonkey et al.

DownThemAll

DownloadHelper

Fix missing icons in search box drop down list and other menus

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Ubuntu menu:
  System -> Preferences -> Appearance check "Show icons in menus"
Restart Firefox

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The image rendering in Firefox 3.5 under Ubuntu 9.10 is very bad. You can avoid it by turn off the zoom function for images in Firefox:

Go

 to View -> Zoom -> reset and choose "zoom text only".

Synaptic Package Manager 100% CPU

It happens some time when I press reload button. You can remove the file /var/run/synaptic.socket, then it comes back

Chinese and Japanese input (IBus)

Ubuntu has switched to IBus as preferred input method framework. Unlike the previously used SCIM, IBus is under active development and fixes a number of SCIM's design limitations.

Go to System >> Administration and select Language Support.

Install the missing language pack.

Keyboard input method system: select ibus

Next screen Installed Languages:

select Chinese (simplified), make sure you checked Translations, Input methods, and Extra fonts

I also selected Japanese language.

go to System -> Preferences -> iBus Preferences.

By default, to trigger iBus: Control+space, switch to next input method: Alt+Shift_L

Input methods:

PinYin is for inputing Chinese Characters

pinyin is for input pinyin symbols.

Auto SSH

Generate key pair:

client% ssh-keygen

Then copy generated id_rsa.pub to server.
Add client's public key to server's authorized key file:

server% cat id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_

keys

Set default user name on your client:

client% cat ~/.ssh/config

Host *.rice.edu

User YourNetID

SSHFS

Here is a good link telling you how to use sshfs from clients.

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You CANNOT change the hostname by just using the command of

% sudo hostname ANewName

To change the hostname, edit the /etc/hostname file, and Ubuntu will automatically change the corresponding line in the /etc/hosts file. If for some reason, the hosts file are not changed, you have to change it manually.

$ sudo vi /etc/hostname

$ cat /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1	newHostName	localhost.localdomain	localhost

Clone Ubuntu Installation

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Mount rice storage (only for Rice University users)

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https://docs.rice.edu/confluence/display/ITTUT/Mount+the+storage+drive+on+Linux Image Removed

Could not mount the swap partition

After the installation, I don't know why I cannot mount the swap partition. Finally I figured out that the UUID pointing to swap is different from the correct one. You can see your partitons UUID by this comamnd:

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/

Then copy and past your correct UUID of your swap partition to /etc/etfstab.