play youtube with mplayer in firefox using greasemonkey

flash player on linux has some problems, is slow and sometimes makes firefox crash. youtube has been updated and this greasemonkey script don’t work anymore. I’ve modified it a little to get it to work again.
http://pastebin.com/f22bb3951
create a new script in grasemonkey, delete the lines that are there and insert the script.

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Fixing big fonts bug with Ubuntu Gutsy and Intel gma 900

There’s an annoying bug that don’t permit to make a fresh install of gutsy on some machines without having really big fonts, that makes the system unusable. it seems that’s a bug in the dpi detection and there are a few ways to resolve this, for example copy your monitor characteristics from xorg.conf from feisty, [...]

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How To: Fix a little Qt font “bug” in Ubuntu Gutsy (VirtualBox 1.5.2) and Qt integration with Gnome

Installed Virtual Box 1.5.2, I immediately noticed that the fonts of the window were too big, if you experienced the same problem or you just want to get a better integration of Qt applications with Gnome here are some simple steps to follow.
First let’s install Qt3 configuration editor and polymer, a port of the “Plastik” [...]

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Linux power saving with Powertop

Powertop is an utility from Intel that finds software components that use more power than necessary and provides some tips to make battery life lasts longer.
On Ubuntu you can install it from synaptic sudo apt-get install powertop
On other linux systems you’ll have to compile it.
http://www.linuxpowertop.org/

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VirtualBox 1.5.2 a lot of improvements… let’s install it on Ubuntu Gutsy!

There are a lot of improvements since the last version this software is growing really fast, that’s the power of open source ;)

From prompt:
wget -q http://www.virtualbox.org/debian/innotek.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
You should see “OK“
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
and put at the end of the file
deb http://www.virtualbox.org/debian gutsy non-free
then:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox
remember to add your [...]

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How-To Update IPW2200 on Ubuntu Gutsy

*updating drivers should be done only by experts who knows exactly what they are doing. everything you do with this is your own responsibility*
this only works for kernels prior to 2.6.24. with 2.6.24 kernels and later there are lot of changes that don’t permit to compile and install the drivers.
I experienced a lot of problems [...]

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Create mount and copy floppy disks images under linux

Yesterday I was searching a way to create and use img files using linux, and found a few simple commands that do the job.
Create a disk image from the phisical drive:
cat /dev/fd0 > imagefile.img
Copy image to the phisical drive:
cat imagefile.img > /dev/fd0
Simple isn’t it? And now the fun part :P
If we need it we can [...]

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