Fixing 'Welcome to Ubuntu' in Virtual Console. (update-motd)

Linux Mint 9 and Ubuntu 10.04 now use a series of scripts to generate the motd 'on the fly'. Simply editing /etc/motd will not do it, but looking at the scripts located in /etc/update-motd.d/, you'll find the file 10-help-text, which sends the welcome to Ubuntu message. Feel free to change it to something more 'Minty'.

Another thing I noticed was the other crap that's being run by these scripts. (They're running more scripts/programs) which seem to be slowing down my entry to the shell. If you don't want need some of this stuff, look into what these other executables are doing and possibly remove the stuff you don't want/need.

Coming soon ... Firefox 4.0

The next version of Firefox is already in development, and Mozilla’s product director Mike Beltzner has posted his team’s vision of the shape Firefox 4 will take when it’s done.

• The big news is that Beta code is expected to ship next month, in June 2010, and that Firefox 4 will hit the release candidate stage in October 2010. Of course, those dates are subject to change (actually, change is almost guaranteed at this point), but that’s the plan as it stands now.

http://www.webmonkey.com/category/browsers/
http://beltzner.ca/mike/2010/05/10/fire ... mpowering/

• Today, I presented an early product plan for Firefox 4 to the Mozilla community (live, over the web!) to share our vision for the next version of Firefox, and what projects are underway to realize it. Then I invited everyone to get involved by joining our engineering or product development efforts.

The primary goals for Firefox 4 will be making a browser:

* Fast: making Firefox super-duper fast
* Powerful: enabling new open, standard Web technologies (HTML5 and beyond!),
* Empowering: putting users in full control of their browser, data, and Web experience.

Usually software producers don’t present these sorts of plans in public until they’re finalized, but Mozilla is a little different. We work in the open, socializing our plans early and often to gather feedback and build excitement in our worldwide community. Not everyone could attend the presentation today, though, so I’m sharing the slides and video here as well.

That said: please understand that these plans are fluid and are likely to change. As with past releases, we use dates to set targets for milestones, and then we work together to track to those targets. We always judge each milestone release against our basic criteria of quality, performance, and usability, and we only ship when it’s ready.

from Mike Beltzner, Mozilla Project director

If you would like to help in the development of Firefox 4.0 ... or are just interested.

Firefox Developers Forum >> http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla. ... pics?pli=1
Mozilla Devs/Planning Forum >> http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla. ... ing/topics

Instruction on how to convert lossless .wma to .flac

I had some lossless .wma files that I wanted to convert to .flac, but Sound Converter was giving me issues and couldn't accomplish the task. So I did some digging and found a way to do on the Ubuntu forums. I thought I'd pass along this info in case it might help someone else. Here is the link to the original post I found the info at:

Code:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=54821

And here is my clarified version of these original instructions:
How to convert wma audio files to flac:

Step 1: In Terminal enter the command

Code:

sudo apt-get install mpg321 vorbis-tools

Step 2: Then in synaptic find and install "nautilus-script-manager" and "nautilus-script-audio-convert"
Step 3: In Terminal enter the command

Code:

nautilus-script-manager enable ConvertAudioFile

Step 4: Now right click on the wma audio file in Nautilus and you will see a "Scripts" option with a "ConvertAudioFile" option. Use this to convert the wma to wav.
Step 5: Now use the program Sound Converter to convert the wav to flac.

This was the easiest method I could find, and worked really well. I'm sure there are other methods to accomplish the same task as well, and if you've got one post it up. The more info we can share with each other the better.