Simple $0 cost way to help SimpleInvoices.org

Hi Guys

Here at SimpleInvoices.org we use dropbox on our vps server to manage all the backups of our website, forum, blog, databases, wiki, subversion etc.. and are in need of space upgrade to keep things all happy

To help us out if you could sign-up for a free dropbox.com account - using this link 

install the app, sign-in and you'll have greatly helped SImpleInvoices.org

thats it :) thanks

How does this help? I have a edu account with dropbox and each referral signup gets us 500MB extra backup space  (upto 16GB, @dropbox would be nice this limit could be increased to)

If you have any issues or quries please post in our forum:
 

Cheers

Justin

How to disable the GDM pre-login 'music' in Ubuntu 11.04

To get rid of the annoying pre login gdm 'music' in Ubuntu 11.04 just open the 'Startup Applications' from the Control Panel
- click on the logout button on the top right - then select 'System Settings' to get to the Control Panel

Then just untick the 'GNOME Login Sound' option - refer image below
Screenshot

and then option the terminal/commandline and execute this command

sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --type=bool --set /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds false

restart and you won't get those annoying drums

-- old posr --

One annoying issue in Ubuntu 11.04 is that there is no GUI to disable the pre-login sound that GDM (the Ubuntu login screen) makes when it opens.  This 'music' becomes an issue when you work in a quiet environment

from the command line execute 

gksudo gedit /etc/gdm/custom.conf 

and add the line

SoundOnLogin=false

and the [daemon] line

save the file and restart - now you won't hear the pre-login 'music' at the login screen

goodbye jolicloud 1.2, hello ubuntu 11.04

I've been using Jolicloud on my netbook since December and really enjoyed using, that was until Ubuntu 11.04 was releaed 

Whats great in Jolicloud
  • integrated your Google Docs and Dropbox files into your OS like normal files
  • all your apps and preferences are store on jolicloud.com
  • when you reinstall or setup a new laptop all your apps and settings are all auto installed and setup for you
Problems with Jolicloud
  • Apps disappear behind the jolicloud desktop and can't be alt-tab to etc.. - really annoying
  • The jolicloud file browser is really slow and a pain to use
    • yeah it looks nice but plain old nautilus is much better
  • its just not as nice to use as ubuntu with unity desktop
Whats great about Ubuntu `11.04 on a netbook
  • Unity desktop is fantastic - there was tonnes of negative press re Unity before the launch of 11.04
  • Everything pretty much 'just works'
Problems with Ubuntu on a netbook
  • The GDM pre-login sound can't be disabled via a GUI, really annoying when your working in a quiet environment ( i'll post next about how to fix this )
  • On a netbook when you click an app in the The Unity apps launcher on the left its very hard to tell if anything is happening, yeah the background of the icon pulses but on a small screen this is really hard to see.  This needs to be changed so the icon 'jumps' like OSX or something similar so you can actually see something happening after you click it 
  • Needs to be an easy way to find out what the Unity keyboard shortcuts are, Super-W and Super-S are fantastic - but I would never have found them if I didn't read about them in some comments on some a blog
Apart from those minor issues I can't recommend Ubuntu 11.04 enough