I like my keyboard and try to avoid using the mouse to much.
To open a command shell I used to press Alt+F2, type term, select gnome-terminal and press enter. Mouseless but a lot of steps. So I looked around and found that I can configure shortcuts on my own.
I need to launch gconf-editor and go to apps > metacity > global_keybindings:
Now opening a command shell is as easy as pressing Super+S whereby Super is the Windows Key on my Asus.
In order to get Grails on Ubuntu to work I installed the latest grails 1.0.4-2 deb package. Unfortunately at grails.org/Downloads only release 1.0.4-1 was present, but has this bug.
a friend of my girlfriend and me moved to london. my girlfriend claims for skype. no problem. installation was pretty easy. ok, here you go darling make your call.. strug, there is no video signal…mmh. -1 on here ubuntu-is-a-windows-replacement-list 
today i found some time and yes skype has a video signal now. after googling i found eldragon’s post which did the job:
in short: LD_PRELOAD needs to be set in order to tell skype to use v4l (video for linux)
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /usr/bin/skype
two x-mas ago my brother present me the terratec iVinyl so that i can record all my LPs. i didn’t got it to work and postpone this work:) this year me girlfriend presents me something similar, so i was motivated to try it once more and… yepp… it works!
this year i’m using ubuntu 8.10. i pluged it in and see if iVinyl is detected properly (cat /proc/asound/cards):
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xfeb3c000 irq 16
1 [iVinyl ]: USB-Audio - PhonoPreAmp iVinyl
Terratec PhonoPreAmp iVinyl at usb-0000:00:1d.0-1, full speed
fine. good starting point. but wait. still no recording.
i googled and found Interpid Sound Solutions. after following this post and installing the missing parts i got my audio to work with pulse and alsa.
i tried to use arecord but my iVinyl did not recognized it as a PCM device. so i start playing with audacity. in the preferences > audio i/o settings i pointed the input to iVinyl device.
still no sound:( mmh. ?&%”!. ouch. audacity itself has a microphone control. and guess what. yes the default value was zero. after changing that it finally works!
capacity: 430
input level: min
