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"Kazam is a simple screen recording program that will capture the content of your screen and record a video file that can be played by any video player that supports VP8/WebM video format. Optionally you can record sound from any sound input device that is supported and visible by PulseAudio."

"This project aims at providing a simple GTK interface for capturing and viewing video from devices supported by the linux UVC driver, although it should also work with any v4l2 compatible device."

One comment on the article: in Ubuntu Precise Pangolin (v12.04) the libmtp is already the latest (v1.1.3) and Nexus works with it (ie. you can write to the device too) out of the box.

First of all: install exim
Now we have to reconfigure it, because by default it won't deliver any mails to any external address:

I was hit by this bug too on an Ubuntu Maverick (10.10) server with Samba v3.5.4. The solution was to stop all Samba daemons (smbd, nmbd, winbind), purge the contents of the /var/run/samba directory and restart the daemons. Pretty simple, but this was the last thing I tried.

The following simple command will browse through the tree of the current directory for various archive files and test their integrity. If the test fails, it'll print the file's path. You can easily extend it by adding more filename patterns and tests.

The LDAPClientAuthentication page in the Ubuntu Community wiki describes the basic setup pretty well. However if you bring encryption (SSL/TLS) into the game, it's a quite different story.

(...) Modern Linux distro's, say Ubuntu (8.10) comes with a default PHP configuration of session.gc_probability = 0. This means that in general, session GC will never run(!). There is a unix cron job that runs every half hour and checks for old sessions to delete (see more at /etc/cron.d/php5) but this is done only if you're using the standard "files" as your session handler (check out the directive of session.save_handler on your machine to learn what php default sessions handler is but make sure to check that your application doesn't overwrite this), so for Drupal users using plain Debian/Ubuntu, stock LAMP packages and stock Drupal applications, this means that the PHP garbage collection, despite your best intentions, will also never run. (...)

A few additional links:

• How to add a new PPA source to your list of software repositories
• Firefox PPA
• Thunderbird PPA

One thing about APT pinning I've now learned for life is that you should always check the output of apt-cache policy. In various distributions and APT versions the pinning might behave a bit differently. Checking the output of apt-cache policy (note that there's no package name at the end of the command, thus it'll list your APT sources and their pinning values) reveals most probably the reason why your preferences file does not do whatever you wish it to do.