Fomat a Flash drive in Ubuntu

1. use "df"
    displays file systems available
    find out the volume label of the flash drive

2. unmount the volume before format

3. to format for ext3: "mkfs /dev/sdb1"
    to format for fat: "mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdb1"

4. mount the volume back

English Sinhala Dictionary for Firefox

In Firefox: tools - > add-ons

search for "EnSiTip" and install it

restart Firefox and place the mouse pointer to the word that you want to find the Sinhala meaning

Sinhala unicode in ubuntu 9.04

1. Enable universe repository

2. apt-get install ttf-sinhala-lklug scim scim-gtk2-immodule im-switch scim-m17n m17n-db m17n-contrib language-pack-si-base
 3. rm -f ~/.xinput.d/* ; im-switch -z all_ALL -s scim-immodule

Insert in-line images in gmail

1. Enable the lab called 'Inserting images'
2. Then there will be a new button called 'insert image' in mail formatting tool bar
3. Click and insert the image

Start gDesklets automatically in every boot

1. system -> preferences -> startup applications



2. Click on the "Add" button



3. Enter the required details

Problem when installing gDesklets

I got this error when I tried the command "gdesklets" from terminal

bash: /usr/bin/gdesklets: /usr/bin/python2.5: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

by installing python 2.5 using following command we can fix the error

sudo apt-get install python2.5

gDesklets

sudo apt-get install gdesklets