Well, here we go. I was fed up with trying almost everything so i downloaded kubuntu 7.10, burned it on a disk and this seems to work. My only guess would be the newer kernel supports this piece of crap. Ah well, i wan anyway going to upgrade to gutsy and now i do have a spare live cd :) How all i have to do is get everything installed again and get my stuff working ... Sadly this might take some time (a week or so).
J
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Damn it you Philips! SNU5600 and Ubuntu, Mandrake, Debian!
Anyway, my hdd on my home computer gave up and sadly all my data got lost. So the last 4 days i've been trying to get my computer working again. My USB Wireless adapter (Philips SNU5600) is just not made for linux. I can't figure out how did it work the last time. It must be the massive amounts of updates that resulted it to work without any driver installations. Sadly, it's a pain in the arse to have a dual boot system and switching after every download.
Another comment to this matter would be the problem that debian net-install does not support usblan at all, at least i could not figure out how. The old Mandrake 10 has a too old kernel so it suggests my wlan device is a scanner. Sad.
Anyway, if i find a way, i'll definitely write about it.
J
Another comment to this matter would be the problem that debian net-install does not support usblan at all, at least i could not figure out how. The old Mandrake 10 has a too old kernel so it suggests my wlan device is a scanner. Sad.
Anyway, if i find a way, i'll definitely write about it.
J
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
KDE 4.0
Well, the reason to upgrade my distro was purely KDE 4.0. Now, if you haven't tried it before, you should! You really should! There are couple really nice features. Yeah, desktop widgets are so MacOs and and stuff but still really nice to use them. Ctrl+F12 opens a view far all widgets. The menu (KickOff) is more user-friendly than any of them I've seen/used before. The menu button also covers left-bottom corner of the screen. Try Ctrl+F8 and view all desktops.
Anyway, I haven't found out all the good features yet. But I'll try :)
Thumbs up!
J
Anyway, I haven't found out all the good features yet. But I'll try :)
Thumbs up!
J
Monday, February 18, 2008
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Kindo and familytrees
The Estonian media has lately promoted the Kindo service especially because the Skype's boys investment company has invested in it. Throughout the time I have been trying several family tree applications and I have to admit, this one is the best so far.
Investigating your own family tree is interesting. Sure, I would like to know, which famous person I'm related to. But, the main goal for me is to get to know more about my grand parents and grand grand parents. The roots are deep and it is interesting to know whose genes you have. One person can't do all the work by it's own so Kindo allows other users/relatives to be added. This gives a really good opportunity to collect more information and sort of unifies the family.
So, try it out yourself and create your family tree. Who knows, we might be related :)
J
Investigating your own family tree is interesting. Sure, I would like to know, which famous person I'm related to. But, the main goal for me is to get to know more about my grand parents and grand grand parents. The roots are deep and it is interesting to know whose genes you have. One person can't do all the work by it's own so Kindo allows other users/relatives to be added. This gives a really good opportunity to collect more information and sort of unifies the family.
So, try it out yourself and create your family tree. Who knows, we might be related :)
J
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Blogshares and ideas
I used to play Blogshares (B$) a long time ago and now I'm getting into it again. Well, B$ is a virtual stock market for blogs. Every blog is handled as a company and has a share price. It is a little different from the normal share market as the way to make money there is easier.
They have a contest going on at the moment where they are asking help. They want active users to tell them what is good and what is not in answering 2 different questions: When you start your blogshares day, what is the first page you load? and If the homepage had modules that you could select, what kind of data / information would you want in them?
I do understand, that the site is old and needs updates. They have added new and nice features and repaired/updated the new code, but the visuals are still the same they used to be years ago. Every time I log in, I check my value and rank (pride) and then start trading. Of course it would be really nice to get all the stats right on the first page or even as a module on every page. Secondly I would give a fortune (virtually) to someone to create a filtering module. Why not be able to filter out blogs in a certain price range with available shares and information about increasing or decreasing. Yes, i do understand, it will make the game more easier and give riches to the ones who are rich. But, the idea behind this is simply to be in logged in at the right time and have enough free actions. So the idea is to limit the actions (buying shares found by this method and even searches).
They also brought up an example of iGoogle. A little list of modules/gadgets I use daily: Gmail, Google trends, bookmarks, couple feeds and several special searches. All the same features could be also included in B$. In addition I wouldn't mind to have a ideas needed gadget. Could come handy :)
Anyway, I'm gonna go and dream about my billions now.
J
They have a contest going on at the moment where they are asking help. They want active users to tell them what is good and what is not in answering 2 different questions: When you start your blogshares day, what is the first page you load? and If the homepage had modules that you could select, what kind of data / information would you want in them?
I do understand, that the site is old and needs updates. They have added new and nice features and repaired/updated the new code, but the visuals are still the same they used to be years ago. Every time I log in, I check my value and rank (pride) and then start trading. Of course it would be really nice to get all the stats right on the first page or even as a module on every page. Secondly I would give a fortune (virtually) to someone to create a filtering module. Why not be able to filter out blogs in a certain price range with available shares and information about increasing or decreasing. Yes, i do understand, it will make the game more easier and give riches to the ones who are rich. But, the idea behind this is simply to be in logged in at the right time and have enough free actions. So the idea is to limit the actions (buying shares found by this method and even searches).
They also brought up an example of iGoogle. A little list of modules/gadgets I use daily: Gmail, Google trends, bookmarks, couple feeds and several special searches. All the same features could be also included in B$. In addition I wouldn't mind to have a ideas needed gadget. Could come handy :)
Anyway, I'm gonna go and dream about my billions now.
J
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Ubuntu and Copy Protected DVDs
Well, I had this problem over a month ago and now someone else had a similar problem. Anyway, this is the post from my Estonian blog:
I'm normally not watching rented DVDs. There just is no need for that, but this weekend I decided to rent out Seinfeld's Series 1-3. Coming home, getting my self to have a nice bit of laughter I found out, the DVDs do not work. Well, for future reference all you need to do is following:
1. Get your sources list updated with the medibuntu source:
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ feisty free non-free
#deb-src http://packages.medibuntu.org/ feisty free non-free
Change the "Feisty" depending on your distro.
2. Install Libdvdcss2 package
sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2
BE WARNED! Medibuntu source does include some non-free software packages. Just read always the licence conditions.
J
I'm normally not watching rented DVDs. There just is no need for that, but this weekend I decided to rent out Seinfeld's Series 1-3. Coming home, getting my self to have a nice bit of laughter I found out, the DVDs do not work. Well, for future reference all you need to do is following:
1. Get your sources list updated with the medibuntu source:
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ feisty free non-free
#deb-src http://packages.medibuntu.org/ feisty free non-free
Change the "Feisty" depending on your distro.
2. Install Libdvdcss2 package
sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2
BE WARNED! Medibuntu source does include some non-free software packages. Just read always the licence conditions.
J
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Virtual host management software
Every server owner/admin would like to have a simple and easy to use server management software. Everyone knows Plesk as it's widely used and seems to be one of the most popular commercial versions of server/virtual host managers. Last 2 days I've been trying ISPconfig, a open source virtual hosting control panel. And I'm impressed. A little at least.
With every good software, you will not have any issues with the install. With this one, I spent 12 hours of time drinking coffee and praying. Running Debian on my server I'm used to get everything through aptitude. Yes, I know, No real "root" uses any fancy automated installation systems and compiles everything step by step from the source. But, this junk has so many dependencies that a .deb would be more than welcome. From their website I found my distro being supported and got a list of requirements:
* Operating System: Linux (Kernel 2.4 or later with glibc6)
* Apache Webserver version 1.3.12 or later / 2.0.40 or later
* Sendmail or Postfix
* Procmail
* Quota Package
* ProFTP as standalone version or vsftpd as inetd/xinetd/standalone version
* Php 4.0.5 or newer as Apache module
* MySQL data base
* a POP3/IMAP daemon that supports either the traditional Unix-Mailbox format (e.g. gnu-pop3d, qpopper, ipop3d, popa3d or vm-pop3d) or the Maildir format (e.g. Courier-Imap)
* OpenSSL and mod_ssl for the creation of SSL virtual hosts
* BIND8 / BIND9
* iptables or ipchains
This is easy, right? Sure: You also need to install spamassassin, gcc, g++, Net::DNS (a perl module) and so on. But OK, why not do some boring waiting. So i did. After 12 hours and several findings of missing software packets/libs I got it working. Now to the surprise: It actually works. A bad mash-up of code, ugly interface and too complicated logic but it works. Investigating how it works, I found that it seems to be messy. But it works :)
More about it later as I'm going to try to build a light easy implement version of it.
J
With every good software, you will not have any issues with the install. With this one, I spent 12 hours of time drinking coffee and praying. Running Debian on my server I'm used to get everything through aptitude. Yes, I know, No real "root" uses any fancy automated installation systems and compiles everything step by step from the source. But, this junk has so many dependencies that a .deb would be more than welcome. From their website I found my distro being supported and got a list of requirements:
* Operating System: Linux (Kernel 2.4 or later with glibc6)
* Apache Webserver version 1.3.12 or later / 2.0.40 or later
* Sendmail or Postfix
* Procmail
* Quota Package
* ProFTP as standalone version or vsftpd as inetd/xinetd/standalone version
* Php 4.0.5 or newer as Apache module
* MySQL data base
* a POP3/IMAP daemon that supports either the traditional Unix-Mailbox format (e.g. gnu-pop3d, qpopper, ipop3d, popa3d or vm-pop3d) or the Maildir format (e.g. Courier-Imap)
* OpenSSL and mod_ssl for the creation of SSL virtual hosts
* BIND8 / BIND9
* iptables or ipchains
This is easy, right? Sure: You also need to install spamassassin, gcc, g++, Net::DNS (a perl module) and so on. But OK, why not do some boring waiting. So i did. After 12 hours and several findings of missing software packets/libs I got it working. Now to the surprise: It actually works. A bad mash-up of code, ugly interface and too complicated logic but it works. Investigating how it works, I found that it seems to be messy. But it works :)
More about it later as I'm going to try to build a light easy implement version of it.
J
Friday, February 8, 2008
Apache2 Virtual hosts
Now many people have complained about the error NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts or similar to that while rebooting apache. Here's a tip: Look for the line "NameVirtualHost *:80" in your virtualhosts files. Mainly if there is more than 1 of it there, this error message is given. This can easily happen if virtualhost files are kept separately for every domain :)
J
J
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Microsoft's idiot proof packaging
In the local LUG mailing list we had a surprising post:
J
Initially heard about this via DaringFireball... apparently literally
EVERYTHING about Vista is designed to be unintuitive, including the
retail box!!
Direct from Microsoft's very own website-
Windows Help and How-To:
"Opening the Windows Vista box"
J
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