MadBuntu

Baobab is a handy little utility that I have really come to like.  Baobab provides an easy to visualize layout of the used space on your hard disk.  Although this doesn’t sound that useful, I find myself using it all the time to see where I have recoverable disk space.

If your using Gnome, Baobab is listed as Disk Usage Analyzer under Applications->Accessories.  My KDE 4.1 installation did not have it on the menu, but it can be added via Kmenuedit or run from the command line with the command:

sean@redstar:~$ /usr/bin/baobab &

Baobab is a Gnome application, so if you run it under a different window manager you will need to to have the gnome libraries installed.

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Part 1 Installing Kdar

Kdar Splash Screen

We all are terrible about backups.  Admit it.  You haven’t done a backup in a while.  I hadn’t either.  That is until I discovered Kdar and fell in love.

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One of the few windows programs that I really miss since I switched over to Ubuntu is IrfanView. I’ve yet to find anything that works as well as a general purpose image viewer and lightweight editor. Usually wine would take care of that, but it didn’t seem to install.

Once I sat down and looked at the output of the errors though, it was pretty apparent that it was just missing a library called mfc42.dll. A quick google search for the missing library and then dropping it into ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/ and the program installed and ran without a hitch.

If you get a message when you try to run something through wine that says “failed to reserve range: xxx-xxx” try following the instructions here. Fixed it for me.

So maybe you have created a twitter account and been playing around with it.  But you need more power then the tweeting from the web can give you.  You need to shorten URLs on the fly.  You need to customize the look of your client.  You need to be able to post to multiple account sat once.  You need Twhirl.

First we need to install AIR from Adobe.  Adobe AIR is a framework that allows web application to run as desktop applications.  Right now, Air is an alpha distribution for Linux, and some applications will only run on Mac or Windows, but Twhirl works fine.

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