One of the cool features in a Thinkpad is HDAPS or IBM Active Protection System as it’s called. The system consist of two parts. The driver that enables reading the acceleration data and some sort of userspace software that does the actual parking of the harddrive heads, usually hdapsd. The hdaps driver is part of the kernel but the driver maintainers actually recommend using the tp-smapi driver instead. So that’s what we’ll do....
People often ask me “what’s that browser you’re using” or “how the hell did you make it look like that”. This article serves two purposes: answer these questions remind me what to do when Firefox frags the profile 😎 Theme Nothing special here but my GTK and xfwm themes are dark so Firefox is … dark. I know I am wasting some space on toolbars but I need them so I just have to live with them....
Apparently Microsoft have changed something that have caused Pidgin to be shut out. I’m not sure what the problem is but according to this ticket it’s a server side thing and limited to MSP15 clients. The quick fix is to switch to the Pecan Messenger protocol for Pidgin. It is available in Debian/Ubuntu as msn-pecan $ apt-get install msn-pecan if your distribution does not include this plugin or you are running Windows, get it from the download page...
With the release of Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) yesterday (31/10/08) I am once again running a stable relase – Which meant I had to find something else to screw up :) I decided to testdrive the latest Firefox 3.1 milestone; it does make it a lot easier that Fabien Tassin has been kind enough to set up a repository as well as keeping Firefox 3.1 and other packages up to date....
One problem I run into every time I upgrade Python or install a new Ubuntu computer is this (caused by me running locale en_DK) raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename ValueError: unknown locale: en_DK I am not an Python expert (not even remotely) so I used some time looking for some sort of fix for this problem. Open the file /usr/lib/python2.5/locale.py and find the line containing en_gb (around line 760) and then add this above:...
This really ticks me off. According to this thread in Joost forums, Joost does not plan to support Linux in the foreseeable future. In case is disappears from their forum here is the message This is what Joost really thinks of Linux…we’re not part of their “business objectives”…I’m done with them. Hi, We’re currently working on improving the performance of the PC and Mac versions available today. Although there has been demand for a Linux version of Joost, we have to prioritize our business objectives....
So, Ubuntu screwed me over fracked up my profile when they decided to change the default browser in Hardy (to Firefox 3.0). After much sorrow and dispair (where I accidently started Firefox 3 a couple of times and my trick for restoring the addons didn’t work. The first time I didn’t have a backup of my profile) I decided the time had come to take the plunge and switch to Firefox 3....
Let’s try to sum up the Debian OpenSSH problems Last 4...