Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Tips and Tweaks

As this is my laptop, I at times need to perform security audits of wireless networks. I don’t bother carrying around Backtrack afterwards me everywhere, nevertheless wifite is good to have, for those times when you need to show a client how simple it is to break through a WEP-secured wireless network or. Here’s how I do this:

After configuring my shared network drives it took me quite a during to find out how to bookmark them – it’s a plus button at the bottom of the window.

Accustomed to install PDF printer in Windows, I was looking for one for Linux, forgetting that Ubuntu allows me to print to file straight to PDF.

Although Pinta is quite advanced and should suffice, for tighter integration with Google you might want to install PIcasa. Unfortunately, the Linux version, currently at 3.0 lags behind the Windows version, currently at 3.8. There is nevertheless a trick to use the latest version in accordance with linux with maximum interoperability. It involves installing the latest linux version and at the time installing the Windows version on top of it, with Wine.

Phoronix has reported on a Linux starting to use significantly more power than Windows and they believe it to be a bug. Here’s their fix:

Phoronix has as well checked performance against Windows and found that the video cards performed far worse pursuant to this agreement Linux, with nVidia having the closest performance and ATI + Intel behind.

Number of other improvements just as tablet rotation

Jupiter might as well help with power consumptionas then as a number of other improvements just as tablet rotation; it is an applet designed for netbooks and laptops that helps you switch between maximum and high performance and power saving mode, change the resolution and orientation, enable or disable the bluetooth, touchpad, WiFi to cut a long story short on. If you own an Asus EeePC netbook, there's as well a separate package that adds support for Asus Super Hybrid Engine as so then as some other EeePC tweaks.

I was pursuant to this agreement the impression that the best SIP VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) client for linux was sflphone. Sadly, they don’t have an Oneiric repo as of now which makes install a bit difficult.

Another good choice is Jitsi. With Jitsi, installing the .deb will as well add the repositories. As detailed in an before article on SIP / VoIP softphones or recording, other free softphones offering call recording are Homer, PhonerLite, SightSpeed, Voice Op Panel.