Lately (since Ubuntu 9.x) I’ve had issues with DHCP on my network, not really understanding why my DHCP client never assigned my standard gateway that I’ve configured my router to give out. Since I’ve just upgraded my system to Ubuntu 9.10 and problems were still there, I couldn’t continue to ignore this annoying problem. I tried to fire up Google and other search engines to see if I were able to find a solution to the problem, but I couldn’t find any solution to it, without setting a static network configuration which is NOT a solution. I had to get my hands dirty, and I fired up Wireshark and started digging.. EDIT: This problem is now solved!
If you were as unlucky as me, and couldn’t attend JavaZone 2009, take a trip over at http://tcs.java.no – here you have access to stream & download talks from JavaZone 2009 thanks to Tandberg.
NB: If you have issues streaming the talks in Ubuntu (linux), make sure you use Firefox 3.5, and disable the Windows Media Player addon in Firefox (even thought you might not be able to stream all the talks, you will be able to stream the talks which supports Adobe Flash). At least here at my computer, totem-plugin-view really wouldn’t play along and was fighting..
Congratulations for finally releasing Debian Lenny as stable! This sunday will be a great day indeed.
If you encounter this:
W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs: 4D270D06F42584E6
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
You can safly ignore it and continune doing a dist-upgrade. This warning should go away after the upgrade, since the following key ID is Lenny’s stable public key which is not yet in use. As for now the etch key is still valid and release is signed with both Etch and Lenny keys and the package debian-archive-keyring is yet to be updated in the etch tree as far as I understand it, so that’s probably why we get the warning. This has todo with this post on the mailing list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/01/msg00008.html
We could import the Lenny key even if Debian is not officially using it before Etch’s key has expired or Debian Lenny R1 is released. This is atleast how you fetch the fingerprint of the key ID:
gpg –keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net –recv-keys 4D270D06F42584E6
gpg: directory `/root/.gnupg’ created
gpg: can’t open `/gnupg/options.skel’: No such file or directory
gpg: keyring `/root/.gnupg/secring.gpg’ created
gpg: keyring `/root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg’ created
gpg: requesting key F42584E6 from hkp server wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net
gpg: /root/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key F42584E6: public key “Lenny Stable Release Key <debian-release@lists.debian.org>” imported
gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1
It seems like Microsoft has upgraded their MSN Messenger servers, and this seems to have caused that all 3rd party clients are broken.
You probably receive the error message “Unable to retrieve MSN Address Book” in Pidgin.
The solution for Ubuntu 8.10 people is to:
apt-get install msn-pecan
Restart pidgin, create a new account and in the drop down list of protocols, choose “wlm” for Windows Live Messanger, and plugin in your default/normal MSN account info.
This should put you online again..
Sighs, why doesn’t we all migrate to open standards and use XMPP?
EDIT: This fix seems to work for most of us, but sadly not everyone. (after what I have observed from comments online at IRC and so on..). It’s at least worth a try!
I’m one of those lunatics who store my music in lovely FLAC lossless format, but sadly enough it’s not supported in many portable music players (aka mp3 players).
That’s where MP3FS comes in. MP3FS is a read-only FUSE file system which transcodes FLAC directly to MP3 on the fly when opened and read. So we simply pick our FLAC source point, and mount it somewhere else (just like mount binding). Last name on files get automagically renamed as .mp3 files. This is perfect when we need to transfer our beloved music over to a portable music player which is only able to handle MP3 files.
Continue to read more about how to fetch mp3fs and install it..
I’ve made a tiny little patch for Sociable WordPress Plugin I’m using. I got rather annoyed that it loaded it pictures over http while browsing with https. Plugin will pick up https if you use it in SITE_URL on your WordPress blog, but I don’t like to bother my visitors with my self-signed certificate, so I only require https to login.
Sociable loading pictures over http while using https causes this annoying warning in Firefox
Save the quoted content below as a random-filename.patch in your sociable plugin directory , make a backup of current sociable.php to sociable.orginal and apply it with patch -p0 < random-filename.patch in your sociable plugin directory.
Normally when you use svn in a terminal and you check out some source code from a server who uses a self-signed certificate, you always get a prompt if you want to permanent store this certificate as a trusted source.
My problem was with Redmine is browsing my repositories over https and Redmine’s webserver complaining about untrusted certificate. This is rather an easy fix, edit /etc/subversion/servers (or ~/.subversion/servers e.x.) and jump to [global] section and add:
Thanks to Kevin Miller who have blogged something interessting on the “same” subject. I guess everyone should consider to bookmark this book: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/
Latest days I’ve been fighting with installing Redmine (which is a history of it’s self when your new to Ruby and Rails). Finally I’ve managed to migrate from Trac to Redmine which is super sweet. You can manage subversion & git (haven’t tried git yet!) access directly with Redmine by just adding projects members – which is lovely! Since I was still playing with my setup, I tried to setup mercurial – which sadly has no support yet for Redmine’s Redmine.pm apache module. I did some dirty apache tricks using mod_perl so I can manage HG-repository access with a normal htpasswd file and groups.
My next goal when I find some time, is to patch Redmine.pm so we can easily maintain mercurial repositories through Redmine too!
For those who are interested, you can read more to also fetch my apache2 virtual host config which should make it more simple for you to setup and see as an example
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