Archive for the ‘Ubuntu’ Category
Friday, May 7th, 2010
I bought Serengeti's album Standing Steady on MP3 from Bengans and wanted to play it in Spotify as "Local Files". It worked perfectly in MS Windows, but on Ubuntu I got "File is an unsupported format". WTF?
Spotify acknowledges this:
Spotify uses the system-supplied MP3 decoder on all platforms, and during our ...
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Friday, April 30th, 2010
I'm writing this from Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) on my "travel" laptop, a venerable ThinkPad X40. There were two things I needed to fix to make it work:
The Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device [PCI 8086:3582] needed Workaround A: Re-enable KMS found on Lucidi8xxFreezes to start X.
My Huawei E620 USB ...
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Sunday, February 14th, 2010
I configured a bunch of IPv6 addresses on my GleSYS VPS and got it working after setting the proper route.
After that I added AAAA records for the .se domains I buy through Loopia, including this one. Some of my domains are on easyDNS and they do not appear to support ...
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Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
Yesterday and today I have scripted a small web interface for remote control of XBMC using its HTTP API. (BTW, That API could really use a redesign!)
It's actually just a page showing a screen shot and the name of the file that is currently playing, together with some commands to ...
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
Evolution has a feature for marking e-mail as junk. This will set an IMAP keyword "Junk" on those messages. On my mail server I run Dovecot as IMAP server and Spamassassin through Amavis to filter spam. How could I get Spamassassin to learn that all e-mails marked as junk in ...
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
For various reasons (see bottom of WinePulse – PulseAudio for Wine) the main branch of Wine does not support PulseAudio. This makes Spotify under Wine misbehave a bit, but fortunately there is a solution! A person called Neil Wilson has been kind enough to provide PPA packages of Wine with ...
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Friday, November 6th, 2009
I'm currently upgrading my Ubuntu-in-VirtualBox at work from Jaunty to Karmic, but at first it didn't work at all. Update Manager got stuck when I clicked the "Upgrade" button.
Due to the Big Corporate Firewall all Internet access must go through the the Enterprisey Proxy so I immediately suspected a firewall/proxy ...
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
In about:plugins, what's the filename of the Java plugin?
Is it libjavaplugin_oji.so? If so, you should update to the new Java plugin. Run:
sudo update-alternatives --config xulrunner-1.9-javaplugin.so
Now select libnpjp2.so instead and restart Firefox.
Source: Out of date java 6 plugin installed.
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Monday, September 7th, 2009
My TaskFreak hacking goes on. In Sweden we often use ISO 8601 format for dates (year-month-day), but TaskFreak does not offer this out of the box.
Most date formatting comes from the DATE FORMATS section in include/config.php but even after changing these date formats I still don't get all dates displayed ...
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
To be more exact, some Facebook mail servers are listed in the Composite Blocking List (CBL), including but probably not limited to these:
outmail002.ash1.tfbnw.net - 69.63.184.102
outmail004.ash1.tfbnw.net - 69.63.184.104
outmail007.ash1.tfbnw.net - 69.63.184.107
outmail009.ash1.tfbnw.net - 69.63.184.109
outmail110.ash1.tfbnw.net - 69.63.184.110
CBL is not very informative, but writes:
ATTENTION: If you are running IPSwitch Imail, or similar shared hosting software, ...
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