Ubuntu 10.10. What I did to my computer.

SAfter installing Ubuntu 10.10 into my computer the following are the list of software and tweaks i did to my computer. If you like it you can use it.

1. Installed Firefox addons:
    a. Adblock Plus
    b. DownloadHelper
    c. Download Statusbar
    d. FaviconizeTab
    e. Fission
    f. Greasemonkey
    g. Omnibar
    h. Smart Stop/Reload
    i.  SmoothWheel
    j.  Stylish (installed the style: Highlight Input&Textarea)
    k. Firebug
    l. FireFTP
    m. Chromifox Basic
   
    And Did the following Tweaks
    Typed about:config in url bar and changed the following values
   
    a. media.autoplay.enabled->false
    b. network.buffer.cache.size->8192
    c. network.http.max-connections-per-server->30
    d. network.http.pipelining->true
    e. network.http.pipelining.maxrequests->20
    f.  network.http.pipelining.ssl->true
    g. network.http.request.max-start-delay->2
    h. plugins.hide_infobar_for_missing_plugin->true
    i.  plugins.hide_infobar_for_outdated_plugin->true
    j.  network.http.keep-alive->true
    k. network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server->30
   
    PS: you can enable pipelining for proxy in the same manner too.

2. Installed software in Ubuntu:
    1. Gimp
    2. Vlc Media Player
    3. Docky
    4. Clementine Music Player
    5. Zeitgeist Engine
    6. Gloobus-preview
    7. elementary desktop
    8. Nautilus elementary
    9.  Elementary theme for nautilus
    10  Recoll Search engine
    11. Artha Dictionary
    12. Hotot Twitter Client
    13. Geany
    14. Wine
    15. CCSM
    16. apt-fast
    17. nautilus-script-manager
    18. nautilus-terminal
    19. skype
    20. vim
    21. Global-Menu Applet
    22. Nmap
    23. Ethereal
    24. Wireshark
    25. Experimental Plugins for Compiz
        -> sudo apt-fast install compiz-fusion-bcop compiz-dev \
            build-essential libtool \
            libglu1-mesa-dev libxss-dev \
            libcairo2-dev git-core
        -> git close git://anongit.compiz.org/users/soreau/scripts
        -> cd git
        -> ./compiz-addons install all
    26. Ubuntu Tweak
    27. Pdf Suffler
    28. axel
    29. hugin
    30. bum
    31. pdfedit

3. Plugins/addons
    a. Adobe Flash Plugin
    b. OpenJDK
    c. Gstreamer Plugins
    d. Ubuntu Restricted Extras
    e. Any hardware drivers which i may need   
   
4. Addons for gedit
    a. Auto Tab
    b. Browser Preview
    c. Class Browser
    d. Tabs Extended
    f.  File Browser Pane

5. Tweaks for ubuntu
    a. Sanitize panels
    b. Adjust fonts and resolution
    c. Put up nice background picture
    d. change vlc looks to minimalistic and without menus
    e. change desktop edge settings
    f. change number of workplaces and their arrangements
    g. Increase memory size in ooffice and choose small icon sets
    h. customize ooffice toolbars and fonts
    i. Disable help agent in ooffice
    j. Tweak vimrc file and bashrc files
    k. Stop unused application from starting up

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