Syndaemon Touchpads

For those of you who have laptops and have that annoying problem of accidentially hitting the touchpad while working, I stumbled across this little blog post while surfing the #ubuntu hashtag on Twitter:

http://david.wonderly.com/archives/29

basically its about syndaemon, which can monitor for keyboard activity, and disable the touchpad while until your done typing.

Good bye annoying accidential touches!

Chromium on Ubuntu

Chromium has gotten pretty useful now. Here's how I installed it from the Ubuntu PPA:

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vim /etc/apt/sources.list
----- add -----
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
----- add -----
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 4E5E17B5
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
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Start with:

chromium-browser --enable-plugins

to get Flash support, which is a little buggy. Otherwise, its a pretty nice browser, and a decent option for Lean installs