Archive for the ‘Ubuntu’ Category

Gmail as Mail Reader in GNOME

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Simply install GNOME Gmail in your Linux distro and change the Mail Reader in System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications: If you use Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat (10.10) or earlier you need to download the GNOME Gmail .deb but in Natty Narwhal (11.04) you can install it directly from the unsupported universe ...

Maverick Meerkat joys

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

In retrospect, I really don't understand why I didn't upgrade my primary laptop (Thinpad T60p with ATI graphics) earlier, as the Spotify issue was resolved a long time ago. Maverick feels a bit faster than Lucid, so I'm really happy.

Maverick Meerkat disappointments

Friday, October 15th, 2010

Ubuntu 10.10, with codename Maverick Meerkat, was released on 10 October 2010. So far it has only made me disappointed. First of all, when I have the USB cable for my LG L1510SF touch screen, X crashes in xf86findOption. I have submitted bug reports via Apport, see Launchpad bug #657895. Second, Spotify ...

Spotify 0.4 in WINE: “File is an unsupported format”

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 ...

ThinkPad X40 with Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

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 ...

Now on IPv6

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 ...

Remote control of XBMC, but not too much

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 ...

Mark as junk in Evolution, train SpamAssassin on server

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 ...

PulseAudio support in Wine makes Spotify work better!

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 ...

Ubuntu upgrade behind firewall

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 ...