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It sort of PITA managing webDav share under Linux. If you want to save some time you should look at the script I wrote to manage webdav shares under Ubuntu Linux.

If you want to run the script on a other disto, just contact me, so we can look at the necessary steps to do. You can find the source code of my script @ https://wiki.enterpriselab.ch/el/public:linux:ilias_webdav

Its a well known fact that my laptop is schizophrenic. Sometimes after rebooting the device, a complete new side of its personality comes up. There is the well known Ubuntu side, but also the evil side (I think its called Windows 7, or something like that).

From time to time its necessary to medicate the Win7 personality because the dark side is getting stronger and stronger.
Personally I like to to this when the evil side is sleeping (And Ubuntu is up and running). Why? Ok lets see:

• No evil things running on the Win7 can disturb or dupe the doctor
• The doctor is sure to clean up everything

I use ClamAV as doctor. How to make a appointment:
sudo apt-get install clamav
Send the doctor to a course. So we can be sure he is up to date with all known infections:
sudo freshclam
Figure out where the evil side is located on the hard disc (/mnt/win7). Then send the doctor to his house and let em clean it up recursively (-r)
clamscan -r -l scanres.txt --remove=no /mnt/win7 > scanlog.txt

The doctor will write a final report to ./scanres.txt and a documentation of what he reviewed to ./scanlog.txt
It’s also possible to tell the doctor to cut out all infected parts automatic with: –remove=yes But you should think about that. He will cut it, regardless what is infected.

I think this is a good way to treat my Laptop and keep it clean.

Zattoo has released a new Ubuntu Client based on Flash.

• Get the .deb: Download
• If you run a 32 bit Ubuntu, the deb works out of the box. Else install it with sudo dpkg -i --force-all ~/Downloads/zattoo*.deb
• If you have installed the Adobe 64 bit Flash Plugin, delete it!.
• Install the flashplugin from the ubuntu repo: sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

Your done!

I found time to write about my Ubuntu setup. You can find some informations about fancy Linux apps here:

Philip’s Wiki

Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic koala) comes with Grub 2 (1.97~beta4). Some improvement:
- Universal support for UUIDs
- Scripting support including conditional statements and functions
- Boots from LVM, RAID and ext4 directly
- Non-X86 platform support (such as PowerPC)
So, lets see how we can make some default grub-legacy changes in grub 2.

Change screen resolution (for grub-menu):
gap@devBox:~$ sudo vi /etc/default/grub
Now you can edit the GRUB_GFXMODE (uncomment and change VBE Mode)
GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x1024
You can show your supported VBE modes when you hit c in the grub menue, and run vbeinfo in the appearing console.

Change the tty resolution:
Even if my laptop has a intel grafic chip, im using the uvesafb kernel module. These, because you have much more work with the intelfb module.
So, you have to load the uvesafb, and you should also be sure its not blacklisted.
# write the name of your module in this file:
sudo vi /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
# uncomment the line if the modul is blacklisted:
sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.conf
# update initramfs
sudo update-initramfs -u
# install v86d (if you use uvesafb)
sudo apt-get install v86d
After that we can edit GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="video=uvesafb:mode_option=1600x1200-24"
After a
sudo update-grub
sudo reboot
Youre done.