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Because of a comment we received from Silverwolf, in which he asked us, how to show what you are listening on Spotify, we started a research... and we found a plugin to get it done in Pidgin... (we are still looking for a solution to show what you're listening to on emesene)

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Is there a better way waking up, than listening to your favourite music? If you're one of those guys, that leave their computer running even if they go to bed, this post may be useful for you... We'll use a script and cron to create a "really geek" alarm clock...
We'll start creating the script, that'll be responsible for playing the music files and turning up the volume gradually...
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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.

Surely, some of you once tried to use Ctrl+V in the ubuntu command shell with the intention to paste a text or a command in one or more lines... and you'll have noticed that this key combination doesn't work in the terminal by default. So, if you're a fan of copy&paste with key bindings you'll need to follow theese steps...

Using the GNOME configuration tool we can change the behavior of the terminal. Pressing Alt+F2 and than writing "gconf-editor" (without quotation marks), a window will open, in which we need to browse the menu the following way: "apps -> gnome-terminal -> keybindings" there we'll look for the command "paste" and modify it, as we'd like to...

If you are curious, you'll also have found the command "copy"... you can edit and modify it as you'd like, too. But remeber that the combination Control+C in the command shell is allready used for aborting an operation in progress.

Sometimes, when we manually install a deb package, there are some dependencies that are not satisfied, because they are not installed correctly. In that case we often get informed, that the software is damaged, or dependencies are not satisfied or updates could'nt be realized correctly, like it is shown on the next image:

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To solve this problem we'll need to execute the following line in a terminal:

sudo apt-get -f install