Broken Templates in Nautilus

My wife had the bright idea to delete the Templates folder in ~/. After that, even recreating the folder, the templates were not recognized by Nautilus.
The solution was to edit the variable XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR in the file ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs to indicate $HOME/Templates.
Thanks to xlinuks.

Criando modelos no Nautilus

Minha esposa teve a brilhante idéia de apagar a pasta Modelos em ~/. Depois disso, mesmo recriando a pasta, os modelos não eram reconhecidos pelo Nautilus.
A solução foi editar a variável XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR do arquivo ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs para indicar $HOME/Templates.
Agradeço ao xlinuks.

Tribalism is the enemy within

I like this post by Mark Shuttleworth: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/439

Petition to stop software patents in Europe

When Hitler attacked the Jews 

I was not a Jew, therefore I was not concerned. 

And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, 

I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. 

And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, 

I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. 

Then Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church -- 

and there was nobody left to be concerned. 

Martin Niemoller, German Protestant Pastor,

1892-1984 

Petição para Acabar com as Patentes de Software na Europa

Niemöller tratando sobre o significado do Nazismo na Alemanha:

E Não Sobrou Ninguém

Quando os nazistas levaram os comunistas, 

eu calei-me, porque, afinal, eu não era comunista. 

Quando eles prenderam os sociais-democratas, 

eu calei-me, porque, afinal, eu não era social-democrata. 

Quando eles levaram os sindicalistas, 

eu não protestei, porque, afinal, eu não era sindicalista. 

Quando levaram os judeus, 

eu não protestei, porque, afinal, eu não era judeu. 

Quando eles me levaram, 

não havia mais quem protestasse"

How to get the use of your number pad back in Ubuntu

I think I accidentally pressed SHIFT and Num Lock keys together. This caused my number pad "stop to work" and start to act like a mouse. All I had to do to fix it was press again SHIFT and Num Lock.

Thanks to rvdavid

Happy Birthday Linux!

Long life for our greatest OS!

http://linux-bangalore.org/blug/articles/bday.php

Como contribuir com o Ubuntu - parte 2

Esta é uma outra forma de contribuir para quem tem pouco tempo para oferecer: traduzir os pacotes de programas.
O site do time de tradução do Brasil é: http://wiki.ubuntu-br.org/TimeDeTraducao/MaverickPacotes

E como "ouvi" dizer: "não é porque podemos fazer pouco que não vamos fazer nada" (Ayrton Araújo).

Fresh install - First settings

That's how I set up a new Ubuntu installation.

1. Let the system make its updates (Menu > System > Administration > Update Manager or on a terminal: update-manager)

2. Install proprietary drivers (Menu > System > Administration > Hardware Drivers or on a terminal: jockey-gtk)

3. Copy my keyboard shortcuts folders to
             ~/.gconf/apps/metacity
          and
             ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/keybindings

    And copy my OpenOffice folder settings to
             ~/.openoffice.org/3/user

    And copy my Templates to
             ~/

    Optionally in a terminal:

cp -R ~/Downloads/metacity/ ~/.gconf/apps/ ; cp -R ~/Downloads/keybindings/ ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/ ; cp -R ~/Downloads/user/ ~/.openoffice.org/3/ ; cp -R ~/Downloads/Templates/ ~/ 

4. Configure my panel to  have
Main Menu / Workspace Switcher / Global Menu / System Monitor
and set the my weather location.
Should looks like this:

5. Open "Ubuntu Software Center" and install:

       - Parcellite (clipboard manager)
       - Gimp (image editor)
       - Chromium (web browser)
       - Home Bank (finance manager)
       - Stellarium (planetarium)
       - Cheese (webcam booth)
       - Kid3-qt (mp3 tag)
       - Compiz (advanced desktop effects settings and extra plugins)
       - MountManager (configure fstab)
       - Sun Java Runtime Environment
       - Sun Java Plugin (browser plugin)
       - GStreamer extra plugins
       - ChmSee ou Kchmviewer
       - Desktop-Webmail (see this)
       - Tracker (Gnome search tool)
       - GNU Chess
       - Restricted Extras (support for mp3 and others audio formats)
       - Docky (for my wife and newcomers)

Or else copy this on a terminal:

sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install -y aptitude ; sudo aptitude install -y parcellite gimp chromium-browser homebank stellarium cheese kid3-qt compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-extra mountmanager sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly kchmviewer desktop-webmail tracker-search-tool glchess ubuntu-restricted-extras flashplugin-nonfree 

ps.: with this command won't install Docky and will also install:

   - aptitude, as it is preferable to apt-get (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=379804) and then use aptitude to install others packages.
   - adobe-flashplugin-nonfree, wich you can get here too: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer

6. Install Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/install

7. Install Virtualbox: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

8. Medibuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

a) Add repository:

sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update 

b) Install some stuffs and libdvdcss2 to play encrypted DVDs.

sudo aptitude -y install app-install-data-medibuntu apport-hooks-medibuntu libdvdcss2 

Updated at:
01/11/2010

That's it. ;-)