12:54 AM
Giver is an application that allows you to easily share files with other people on your network. It automatically detects other Giver users on your network and lets you send and receive files with a click. Unfortunately, Giver stopped working under both Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10, so here is how to get it working again.
1. For both Ubuntu 11.10 and 11.04: The first issue with Giver is a missing .so file that prevents it from working. This can be fixed by installing libx11-dev
sudo apt-get install libx11-dev
2. For Ubuntu 11.10 only: besides the above issue, there's another issue that prevents Giver from working (it occurs for all applications that still use Mono runtime 2.0 instead of 4.0). To fix this, run the command below:
sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/giver.desktop
And under "Exec", replace "giver" with the following:
/usr/bin/mono --runtime=v4.0 /usr/lib/giver/Giver.exe
Save the file and Giver should now work.
Oh, and since Giver is not available in the Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot repositories, you can download the .deb from
here.
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11:21 PM
NTM (Network Traffic Monitor) is an application to use on computers with a limited Internet plan. It can display a complete report for received and transmitted network traffic and automatically disconnect after a certain period of time or after the traffic exceeds the value you set (MB).
The latest Network Traffic Monitor (1.2.5) comes with an Ubuntu indicator, but works just fine under GNOME Shell or XFCE too. Currently there's a small issue with the tray icon in KDE but this should be fixed soon.
By default, NTM will use the "ppp0" network interface which is ok for a modem but if you want it to track your wireless traffic, use "wlan0" instead.
The live traffic info is displayed in a separate window and not in the indicator and that's a bit annoying, but this tiny application gets the job done. One note though: if you switch from a limited data plan to unlimited, remember to switch NTM off and to disable it from starting automatically because it will disconnect your Internet connection when it reaches the threshold without asking for confirmation.
Download NTM (Network Traffic Monitor) (.deb and source files available)
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