Half a Page of Scribbled Linux

From Lexmark’s site, on the Downloads tab, under Drivers, select Linux, Ubuntu 12.04 and download “32-bit Postscript Printer Description (PPD) for CUPS-based and OpenOffice Printing with Debian-based packaging” and “Printer Utility for 32-bit Linux distributions with Debian-based packaging”.  Clicking on each file brings up Ubuntu Software Center.  Click the Install button.  There’s a complaint that the “package is of bad quality” because of file ownership.  Choose “Ignore and Install”.  Remember to install both packages. After installation, fix the problem:

$ cd /usr/local/lexmark/v3/bin
$ sudo chgrp bin printfilter
$ sudo chmod 755 printfilter lxusb

To set up Cups, run the Lexmark Print Utility. It will find the printer for you.

1. Create a back up with Titanium Backup
2. Perform a Nandroid backup
3. Download Cyanogenmod to /sdcard/0 on the phone
4. Download Google Apps to /sdcard/0 on the phone
5. Boot into Recovery, perform a factory reset, then load Cyanogen and GApps from Zip
6. Reboot
7. Sign in to Google, then Cyanogenmod
8. Restore data as needed from Titanium Backup

The commands to bring up the log out and shut down dialogs have changed in Ubuntu 13. What used to be gnome-session-save is now gnome-session-quit. LinuxG.net has a summary of the commands. To attach these to a hot key, run System Settings, select Keyboard, and go to the Shortcuts tab. The log out and lock screen hot keys are under System. I set Lock Screen to Ctrl-Alt-L and Log Out to Ctrl-Alt-U. Under Custom Shortcuts, I add Shut Down, and set it to run gnome-session-quit --power-off when Ctrl-Alt-Del is pressed.

Instructions:
http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2013/08/install-grub-customizer-ubuntu-13-10/

I installed an SSD, 2GB of RAM and an upgraded battery on my Thinkpad T60.  Rather than copy my old installations to the SSD, I installed Ubuntu 13.10 via USB drive.  It went off without a hitch and, boy, is the SSD fast!  The instructions in earlier posts cover everything I’ve done so far, but the old directions to connect to the NAS are kinda sketchy, so I’m updating them here.

Install support for CIFS. It’s in package cifs-utils.
In my home directory:
$ mkdir ds411p2
As root, add this to the end of /etc/fstab:
//ds411p2/home /home/me/ds411p2 cifs user,uid=me,gid=me,rw,suid,credentials=/home/me/.ds411p2pwd 0 0
Edit /home/me/.ds411p2pwd to look like this:
username=my NAS username
password=my NAS password
$ chmod 0600 ~/.ds411p2pwd
As root:
# mount ~/ds411p2
In /home/me, replace Documents, Lyrics, Music, Pictures, Videos and any other shared directories in home with soft links to the respective directory in ~/ds411p2.

I have some shared directories on the NAS that can be accessed by anyone in the group ps411p2. To mount them, edit /etc/fstab as root and add:
//ds411p2/video /mnt/ds411p2-public-video cifs rw,suid,gid=ds411p2,credentials=/etc/ds411p2pwd 0 0
//ds411p2/music /mnt/ds411p2-public-music cifs rw,suid,gid=ds411p2,credentials=/etc/ds411p2pwd 0 0
//ds411p2/photo /mnt/ds411p2-public-photo cifs rw,suid,gid=ds411p2,credentials=/etc/ds411p2pwd 0 0
Of course, add the group ds411p2 on the client and give it to the appropriate users. You can use gnome-system-tools to do this. (It’s not installed by default.) Also as root, create the directories in /mnt.
Edit /etc/ds411p2pwd as root to look like this:
username=NAS guest username
password=NAS guest password
As root:
# chmod 0600 /etc/ds411p2pwd
# mount -a
Make sure you can see the files as you.