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Disable Overlay Scrollbars in Ubuntu 11.04

April 30th, 2011

I updated my Ubuntu to 11.04 yesterday and really didn’t like the new scroll bars.

After a little searching I found

  • http://www.worthytips.com/14681/easily-disable-overlay-scrollbars.html
  • http://www.matbra.com/en/2011/04/28/remover-ou-desabilitar-a-barra-de-rolagem-overlay-ubuntu-11-04/
  • and many more.

Simply add the string “export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0” into the /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80overlayscrollbars file.

E.g perform the following as root

echo "export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0" > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80overlayscrollbars

Borderlands Clap Trap Loot Achievements

February 25th, 2011

There are quite a few collector missions in the newest DLC for Borderlands. These are The Collector, The Lubricator, Bobble-Trap, It’s so realistic!, What a party!

What a Party!

Borderlands What a party! Achievement

Borderlands What a party! Achievement

For the What a party achievement you need to collect “Collect 3 panties, 5 fish in a bag, and 15 pizzas”

Image of ingame pizza

Image of ingame pizza

Image of ingame panties

Image of ingame panties

Image of ingame clap fish

Image of ingame clap fish

The Lubricator

Borderlands The Lubricator Achievement

Borderlands The Lubricator Achievement

For The Lubricator achievement you need to “Find 25 Oil Cans”

Image of ingame oil can

Image of ingame oil can

Bobble-Trap

Borderlands Bobble-Trap Achievement

Borderlands Bobble-Trap Achievement

For the Bobble-Trap achievement you need to “Collect 15 claptrap bobbleheads”

Image of ingame bobblehead

Image of ingame bobblehead

Its so realistic

Borderlands It's so realistic! Achievement

Borderlands It's so realistic! Achievement

For the Its so realistic achievement you need to “Collect 5 3D Glasses”

Image of ingame 3D glasses

Image of ingame 3D glasses

The Collector is easy to complete for Tannis, but after I had completed playthrough 2 and hadn’t got any of the others. I spent ages in the Hyperion Dump killing claptraps and never got anything apart from Gears and Motherboards.

I then gave up and realised I had missed some of the SDU missions.   I started to do playthrough 1 of the Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution, but being LV 69 it was very easy.

Once I got to the Interplanetary Ninja Assassin Claptrap (MINAC) I killed it silly fast.

Then I had the idea of farming the MINAC area for claptraps, they keep respawning so fast and the MINAC could barely touch me.

I got my fastest Combat Rifles which had a large magazine size.

Once you get to the MINAC take out all the guns and rocket launchers on the MINAC, once you have done this the fun starts.

There are only about 5 places where the MINAC stops and only a few routes it takes across the map.   At the start just follow the MINAC around, get close to the doors at the front and wait for them to open (try not to get run over but that is not really important, just annoying).  Once the doors open just fire your combat rifle in burst as the clap traps spawn.  You can kill about 10 quite quickly and they start to drop the loot.  Don’t bother picking things up yet, just keep following the MINAC around, and kill as many clap traps as you can once the doors open.

After a while you have piles of loot all over the place.   Then just run around and collect them all.  Hold X and you collect massive amounts in one go.  It took me about 30 mins to get all the collection based missions.

Doing this when you hit LV 69 is easy but I expect you can do it at lower levels too.

Also see these links for more information

  • http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/The_Lubricator
  • http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Bobble-Trap
  • http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/It%27s_so_realistic!
  • http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/What_a_party!

La Tania 2011 – Photographs online

February 19th, 2011

I finally got around to blogging about the photographs from La Tania going online. They have actually been up for a few days, but I’ve been too busy to tell anyone.

The photographs are available here

Monty, Coz, Ben, Steve, Woody, Woodys Dad and I went. La Tania is a great place to stay in 3 Valleys.

Technic Lego 8052 – Container Truck

January 5th, 2011

Well for Christmas this year my parents wanted to get me the Technic Lego 8052 – Container Truck. Unfortunately the shops had sold out in the UK, so they gave me the money and told me to buy it here, in Germany.

Lego 8052 Container Truck

Lego 8052 Container Truck

Lego 8053 Container Truck Box

Lego 8053 Container Truck Box

Amazon shouldnt take long to deliver it.

Thunderbird mark message as read after reply

October 14th, 2010

Well it appears I am not the only person having a problem with thunderbirds marking emails as read.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239782

http://markmail.org/message/u6js6hblklqy3ei4

This is how I use thunderbird

I have disabled the “Automatically mark message as read” functionality so that I have to set messages as read.  If I don’t do this many emails were being marked as read when I hadn’t really finished reading them or replied to them.

In my case I classify an email as read when I have replied to it or clicked the read button (they require no reply)

I just want Thunderbird to set the read flag when I reply to the email.

Also I normally view the email in the “Message pane (F8)”

After installing

https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/changequote-en.html

I get exactly what I want.   Thunderbird now sets emails as read, when I reply to the email.