I was looking for the how to for some time and I found it here. The problem is that the how-to is quite outdated (it is for 7.04) and it no longer work. So I make one and post here. The server is slow so please be patient.

For those who have no patient, here is a brief:
You need to install MPlayer and use its preference dialog to select appropriate codec setting.<<!--break-->br />
1: Download and install MPlayer and Codec

# Install MPlayer
sudo apt-get install mplayer libstdc++5

# Extract the codec
# NOTE that you can find other version of the codec here
# The one using here is the lastest (yes the latest) and for Ubuntu.
wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20071007.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf essential-20071007.tar.bz2
cd essential-20071007

# Move codec to the right place
sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/win32
sudo cp * /usr/lib/win32
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/win32 /usr/lib/codecs

# Remove residue
cd.. rm -Rf essential-20071007

2. Select “RealVideo decoder” and “FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders” for VDO and Audio codec family.

DONE
Have Fun.

Hello, i used to be able to run JDownloader with no problems in Hardy Heron, but i've recently installed Intrepid and since then im unable to use it. There seems to be a problem with my java version, although everything else(java-related) works well. I get this message when trying to run JDownloader:

You useses a wrong Java version. Please use a original Sun Java. Start jDownloader anyway?
Your Java Version:
Runtime Name
icedtea6 1.3.1 (6b12-0ubuntu6) runtime environment
Runtime Version
1.6.0_0-b12<!--break-->

Does anyone know what can i do to make it work?
Thanks in advance, and i apologize if this has been answered already but i've looked around in the forums and didn't find any solution.

ps: i dont know if this is useful but this is what i get in console when running java -jar JDownloader.jar:

samba@samba-laptop:~/Documentos/Downloads/jDownloader$ java -jar JDownloader.jar
19/11/2008 10:00:28 PM - INFO [jd.config.DatabaseConnector(<init>)] -> Loading database
19/11/2008 10:00:28 PM - INFO [jd.utils.JDUtilities(getJDClassLoader)] -> Create Classloader: for: /home/samba/Documentos/Downloads/jDownloader
19/11/2008 10:00:28 PM - FINA [jd.JDClassLoader(<init>)] -> rootDir:/home/samba/Documentos/Downloads/jDownloader
19/11/2008 10:00:28 PM - MÁS FINA [jd.JDClassLoader(<init>)] -> Jar file loaded: /home/samba/Documentos/Downloads/jDownloader/plugins/JDUnrar.jar
19/11/2008 10:00:28 PM - MÁS FINA [jd.JDClassLoader(<init>)] -> Jar file loaded: /home/samba/Documentos/Downloads/jDownloader/restore.jar
19/11/2008 10:00:28 PM - MÁS FINA [jd.JDClassLoader(<init>)] -> Jar file loaded: /home/samba/Documentos/Downloads/jDownloader/JDownloader.jar
19/11/2008 10:00:29 PM - GRAVE [jd.utils.JDLocale(parseLanguageFile)] -> JDLocale: /home/samba/Documentos/Downloads/jDownloader/jd/languages/Spanish.lng.missing not found
19/11/2008 10:00:29 PM - INFO [jd.utils.JDLocale(getLocaleString)] -> Key not found: gui.javacheck.html
19/11/2008 10:00:29 PM - INFO [jd.utils.JDLocale(getLocaleString)] -> Key not found: gui.javacheck.title

Answer:

What if you install Sun's version instead?

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin
sudo update-alternatives --config java
java -version

Source; http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=987625

There seems to be at least four different unsolved threads on Realtek ALC861 integrated sound card / microfone trouble. The thing is, I can hear my voice from the mic through the headphones, but neither Sound recorder nor Ekiga catches the sound. Editing /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base as suggested (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=616845) doesn't help. Hardy.<!--break-->

Here are some previous threads on ALC861 / mic:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=701317
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=703456
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=720114
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=749603

Answer:

My way to the solution was:

Upgrade to Intrepid Ibex

Add line options snd-hda-intel model=3stack to the end of file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base (remember to save). In terminal:

gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

(alsa-base options for other models, see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=616845)

Reboot

In System > Preferences > Sound > Sound Conferencing > Sound Capture, select HDA Intel ALC861 Analog (ALSA)

Right click the Volume controller in the desktop panel and Open volume control.

Select Device: HDA Intel (ALSA mixer) and click Preferences. After upgrade there are now several new switches available.

Set the 'Front Mic Capture' -switch visible and close window. Then select Switches-tab and enable 'Front Mic Capture' switch. Do NOT mess with other devices' (eg. Realtek/OSS) recording settings, as these seem to disable the Front Mic Capture switch.

*Alternatively, it may be enough to upgrade ALSA instead of upgrading the whole system. In this case you should probably add also these lines to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base (they were added by the ubuntu upgrade process):

# Ubuntu #62691, enable MPU for snd-cmipci
options snd-cmipci mpu_port=0x330 fm_port=0x388
# Keep snd-pcsp from beeing loaded as first soundcard
options snd-pcsp index=-2

Hope this does the trick for you, too!

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=943791

I installed linux keylogger using

sudo apt-get install lkl

and got it working using

<!--break-->

sudo lkl -l -k /usr/share/lkl/keymaps/us_km -o keylog1.file

every thing is working but now i want to hide the terminal in
which linux keylogger in running...

Answer:

write a "&" at the end and it should run in the background.
like this:

sudo lkl -l -k /usr/share/lkl/keymaps/us_km -o keylog1.file &

then you can just close the terminal window

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=852390

Ok, I'll be the first to admit that the 1024 x 600 screen on my EEE 1000H is a tad small. However, there are some ways you can get better value for your screen real estate in the Firefox browser, which I assume many of you use.

Before I tell you the addons I've used, let me show you a before and after <!--break-->

Before:

After:
.
Please forgive the operating system change! It's the same steps for Windows or Linux.

Now, the addons.
Fission - This puts your loading progress bar in your location bar, in a similar fashion to Safari. In fact, if you want it to have the same appearance as Safari, save this gradient to your computer and input that to the Fission addon. Fission can also display the link of a hovered-over URL in your location bar if you wish, as this function is lost in hiding the normal status bar.
Tiny Menu- See that "Menu" in the top left of the After image? That's all the File, Edit, Tools, Bookmarks etc inside one space saving drop-down menu. I rarely use things in these menus so it's a very handy tool for saving screen space.

After you have installed these addons, there are still several things left to do. First, right click your Firefox's Navigation Bar - the one with the Forward, Back, Home buttons. Click Customise. First thing you want to do is click "Use small icons" in the bottom left. This saves some space and also makes the button layout look much better, in my opinion. Note, if you are using Firefox on Linux, as I am, you can install the Vista buttons, which look much nicer than the GNOME ones, here. After this, you want to merge your bookmarks bar, your location bar, and your navigation bar, all into one.This can be easily done by selecting and dragging each item.
One thing you may have noticed is that I have no Google Search to the right of my Location bar. This is because I discovered a very handy feature in Firefox called "Quick Searches". Or at least, it was called Quick Searches in Firefox 2, but it seems to have dropped the moniker in FF3. Anyway, what a Quick Search basically means is that on [pretty much] any page with a search function, you can access this search function from anywhere through your Location Bar.
How to do this:
Navigate to a page that you frequently use the search function in.
Right click the search field, and click Add A Keyword For This Search..

Fill in the name of the Site you are searching, and then click down to Keyword. What this keyword basically is is the prefix you have to enter in your Location Bar to search that site. For example, if I type

into my Location Bar, and hit Enter, it will search Google for "msi wind", as "g" is my keyword for Google. Similarly I have "y" setup for YouTube, "i" for Google Images, etc.
By removing the Google Search box we have freed up some space, so I suggest you put your Bookmarks Toolbar there. You can now right click the area beside your Location Bar and uncheck Navigation Bar and Bookmarks Toolbar.
Your Bookmarks Toolbar is obviously going to take up a lot of space if you have plenty of bookmarks, all of which will reduce the size of your Location Bar. So what I do is, in the Organise Bookmarks window, create a new folder called Bookmarks in the Bookmarks Toolbar, and drag all my bookmarks into that. This will be displayed, like the Menu top left, as a drop down menu when clicked.

And you're finished! 4 Lines - Menu Bar, Navigation Bar, Bookmarks Bar, Status Bar - all consolidated into one.

Hope some of you find this useful
Feedback appreciated.

If you open Sound Juicer (called Audio CD Extractor in [i]Accessories>Sound & Video{/i]) and select Edit>Preferences the output format box will have a few options, by default none of them MP3. If you hit edit profiles, however, you will see an mp3 option, yet if you select it, you find it cannot be used to encode your mp3s yet (by default). <!--break-->

To enable mp3 encoding, you need to open a terminal and enter:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Now you can select the mp3 option.

However, all mp3's ripped will be CBR 128kbps.

To change this, we need to go to Edit>Preferences again, select edit profiles again and edit the MP3 one. In the "GStreamer pipeline" box, replace what is in there with this:

audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc mode=0 vbr=4 vbr-quality=0 vbr-min-bitrate=160 vbr-max-bitrate=256 ! xingmux ! id3v2mux

You can change your max and min bit rates as you wish by changing the number on the end of the "vbr-min-bitrate=160" and "vbr-max-bitrate=256" commands (leave syntax as is), it is currently tailored to my liking.

Hope this helps people struggling with ripping mp3's,

- Jake

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=952807

i see the question posted a lot in the forums and have not noticed a tutorial for it yet...so here is my first attempt at one:

first open a terminal and type or copy/paste the following:

Code:

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list<!--break-->

when it opens, add (copy/paste) the following lines to the bottom of the file:

##repo for open office3
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main

save, then close the file and run these 2 commands one at a time:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

thats it...open office 3 should be installed and in the menu: applications > office

or just start it up from the terminal:

openoffice

hope that helps someone.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=987181