Have you ever installed an application "manually" (not via Synaptic or Update-Manager, but by compiling it yourself and using some kind of installer-script for example)? And were you annoyed that only a generic icon was shown in Ubuntus' Applications-menu? If so, this tip is for you.
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Right-click on a file, and this script will decide what conversions are appropriate, ask some questions about what you want, and execute the proper command and options to convert it into something else.
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The scripts located in /etc/init.d are part of the bootup sequence of every Debian-like distro. Very often Ubuntu's documentation and guides have suggested -- in order to deactivate init scripts -- to change the permissions of the scripts in /etc/init.d, making them non-executable. This will have the following consequences:
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RabbitVCS is a set of graphical tools written to provide simple and straightforward access to the version control systems you use. Currently, it is integrated into the Nautilus file manager and only supports Subversion, but our goal is to incorporate other version control systems as well as other file managers.
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