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First we'll need to change our Bluetooth administrator (bluez-gnome) to blueman. So we'll need to add repositories to our source.list, by executing the following command:

echo -e "\n## Blueman\ndeb http://ppa.launchpad.net/blueman/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main\ndeb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/blueman/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

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If you'd like to update ubuntu using the command line, this tipp can hel you. The idea is to create an excecutable file which updates the sources repositories, and upgrades the system, in other words, excecute the next two commands sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade using only one command. To do it... we only need to run the next two lines in a terminal:

1. echo -e "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade" | sudo tee -a /usr/local/bin/update
2. sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/update

The first one creates a file called update, located in /usr/local/bin, and writes the famous two commands in it, and the second one, gives this file permissions to be executed. From now on we can update the entire system excecuting "sudo update" (without quote marks) in a terminal.

I recieved a white envelope today... when I noticed that the sender was Canonical, I thought: Those guys again? I allready told them, that I'm not interested in working for them, at the moment...
And as fast as I'd recieved the letter, I just left it above the kitchen table... A few seconds later I saw a guy looking at me, in the mirror, with such a defiant expression on his face, that I had to open the envelope as fast as possible... Surprised I noticed that nobody wanted to hire me for any job, it only were the Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope CD's, I ordered a few days ago, I'd just recieved...

Truth is, there's not much to say about, but we'd like to add that we really liked the new and different CD and cover design! We were just about to iniciate a campaign against "three strangers holding hands"...

You've had enough of the warning "getStatus: Can't import dcopext or python-dcop!"? And really don't want to see it again? There is no error that can't be fixed... Just open your command shell and enter the following command:

sudo apt-get install python-kde3

Than restart amarok and emesene, and you'll be ready to show what you're listening to.

Continuing the "Show what music I'm listening to while chatting" series, we'll show you now, how you can view in emesene, one of the most famous and most used instant messaging clients thats available as Open Source, what music you're listening to.

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