Adding PPAs

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Until now I was too afraid at the notion of adding a new PPA to the system. Some sites give you the direct commands to add the PPA but when you have to do it manually, I start to sweat.

Today, I wanted to install HandBrake in my Ubuntu system, and was directed to this page. And after installing the key somehow, I got to know how easy a task it was. All you have to do is type sudo add-apt-repository <ppa-name> and sudo apt-get update after the key is installed. For example, the commands I entered in this case were:

   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-snapshots
   sudo apt-get update

Wrong train

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I got into the train to go gampaha from the Kelaniya station. During the whole journey I was on a call with my sis, suddenly when the train stopped in Peralanda station.

Wait!! Peralanda?

Why hadn’t I passed that station before? It was only after some calculations involving advanced calculus that I finally understood I was in the wrong train.

It was a long walk from Peralanda to Ragama =/

Removing Dropbox from the machine

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Last day at the office. I was busy cleaning my personal stuff from the office computer: saved passwords, active logins, browser history, what not.
Then came the problem, how do I remove Dropbox? I googled ‘how to clean up Dropbox from a computer’ but didn’t come up with any results. It took about an hour to until it dawned on me that simply uninstalling Dropbox would solve the issue.

Btw, I’m posting this especially to test posting via email. 😉

IMPORTANT: You have to remove the already synced files in your Dropbox folder, as I found out from the comments.

Chrome is odd in Ubuntu

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Starting from Lucid Lynx, the control buttons are placed at the left side of the title bar in Ubuntu. This is quite cool. Once you get used to it, it seems more intuitive than having them on the right side.

But unfortunately one single app still has its buttons in right side, and that’s Google Chrome. Wish they’d let the users choose where to place the buttons.

To move to Peppermint Ice or not to

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Well, I almost installed Peppermint Os One in my machine only to find so many problems, not recognizing my USB modem only one of them. Now that they’ve released PeppermintOS Ice, which has Chromium as its default browser, I’m thinking again.

Well, modem problem could be solved somehow or other, but then when I was going through the PeppermintOS forums I saw that people were having problems configuring iBus too. iBus of course is a necessity to write and view Sinhala.

So, still I’m more likely not to trash Ubuntu for PeppermintOS Ice.