January 15th, 2009
Enligt idg.se lägger Ubuntu och Fedora ner massor (förmodar jag) tid på att få ner uppstartstiden på en Linux-installation från idag kanske 1-2 minuter till under 20 sekunder. Varför? Varför lägger de inte ner tiden på vettig sleep och hibernate? Vad är snabbare än att slänga igen skärmen så somnar datorn eller öppna skärmen och ha den igång innan man har öppnat?
Jag skiter väl i hur snabbt en dator startar, jag vill inte stänga/starta min burk varje gång jag ska använda den. Att vänta 3 minuter den gången i månaden jag startar om på grund av uppdatering eller för att jag känner för det kan jag väl vänta, spelar väl inte så stor roll då?
Kollade även Ubuntu brainstorm som var gösslad med snack om vilken SIP-klient och dylikt man ska använda. Lös grundproblemen istället, multipla skärmar och annat som man bara vill ska fungera rakt av. Vilken SIP-klient som installeras default kan man väl göra valbart på nått enkelt sätt. Argh.
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January 13th, 2009
Sådärja, nu kör bloggen senaste Wordpress 2.7 och nytt tema. Jag valde ett MacOS-liknande tema då det är min nya husgud. Bloggen kommer nog vandra till mer och mer svenska också. Orkar inte skriva på engelska. =)
Wordpress 2.7 har en editor som fungerar fint i Safari vilket gamla 2.0.4 inte hade, ungefär det som fick mig att uppdatera.
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January 9th, 2009
Do you love the IPhone scroll? Do you love the real feeling, you just have that momentum? Would you like to have it when you’re browsing your favorite site and you wan’t to scroll down? Now you can!
Just go get a copy of Smart Scroll and your up and running with a nice natural feel with help from Isaac Newton to scroll you way down. =)
Well, it’s not just lovely. I have some flickering when I scroll down which I haven’t noticed without Smart Scroll but I can live with it.
Tip: use alt+scroll and you have some acceleration with 4x default (mine at 5x). Lovely if you don’t want to move your hand from your pad/mouse and like to get to the top.
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December 31st, 2008
I kind of sick and tired with F-Spot. It’s a good tool but I have to many problems and besides that, I am (was) a KDE guy and now I’m totally in love with MacOS. So, migrating and converting everything to iPhoto was quite clear.
I’ve always told F-Spot to save tags in XMP as well. If you haven’t, tell it, tag ALL pictures with ‘xmprules’ and then remove that tag and all tags are saved to XMP inside the jpeg.
The problem though is that iPhoto won’t read XMP but it’ll read IPTC. Converting everything from XMP to IPTC, putting pictures in folders and mess around a bit was necessery. Exiftool is the tool for the day.
First I had to rename my pictures. I have a ‘:’ as a delimiter in my time part of the filenames and samba won’t like that. Running "for i in *:*; do apa=`echo $i | sed -s s/:/_/g`; mv "$i" "$apa"; done" solves that easily.
Then I had to convert some XMP stuff to IPTC, this thing would do what I want "exiftool -m -overwrite_original -P -F '-IPTC:Caption-Abstract<$UserComment' .".
I also have ALOT of tags, this was first lost but then I found out that iPhoto searches for ‘Keywords’ and F-Spot uses ‘Subject’ so I had to do this "exiftool -m -overwrite_original '-subject>+keywords' .".
I also would like to have my pictures in folders for the day, this is how iPhoto keeps things and uses that event-thing so running "exiftool -m -r '-FileName<CreateDate' -d %Y-%m-%d/%%f.%%e ." was my next step.
That’s it, then I just import everything to F-Spot. It took like 24 hours for my 9000 pictures.. =)
So, bye bye F-Spot, I’ve been using it since version zero or something, making my on debs and everything but now I’m more into function than messing around.
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November 15th, 2008
Preparations:
- Downloading VMWare 1.0.8 and 2.0.0.
- Having my Huawei E220 ready
- Having all IPs ready and logged on to the ADSL gateway put in bridge mode (if my virtual gateway wouldn’t come up in reasonable time..)
Well, after some changes in sources.list I’m starting off with
What works right after dist-upgrade and reboot then?
- The system boots up. =)
- 1wire mount did work
- My Lacrosse weather station still worked and had contact
What did I have to fix?
- Of course, VMWare didn’t work. New kernel. I installed VMWare 2.0.0 instead and used the same files. Work like a charm.
- dvbloopback compiled for my special needs, needed just a recompile and a cp.
- I had to do a apt-get –reinstall install mythfrond because I had a segfault. Don’t know why.
- New installation of NVidia kernel driver, it has a kernel module. No surprise.
- My LG1730SF didn’t work, my /dev/input/itmtouch has disapperad and it swaps X/Y, my changes in xorg.conf doesn’t work. Some manual fixes solved it. An entire blog will arrive when it comes to ITMTouch and Hardy I think.
Well, up and running, almost everything I think. Just a few hour, a lot easier than expected!
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November 15th, 2008
It doesn’t sound too hard but I have a lot of different specials on this on.
- MythTV, compiled dvbloopback, some other needed special softwares, TV card and probably some more I’ve forgot from my setup.
- VMWare, my gatewith is a virtual server running in VMWare 1.0.4. Thinking about uppgradering this to 2.0.0 when everything is destroyed anyway.
- Touchscreen, my LG L1730SF is always a problem.
- 1wire-things, shouldn’t be a problem though.
- Samba
- Dual monitors with Mythfrontend on one of them.
- Lacrosse weather station
I have prepared myself for a hard day. So why doing it? My new diNovo Mini won’t work in gutsy, don’t know why and I’ve fooled myself into thinking hardy will solve it. =)
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November 3rd, 2008
I just updated to Kubuntu Intrepid and everything worked nice. I’ve run KDE4 for like six months and I’m very pleased with it. A not so nice bug in Intrepid / KDE 4.1.2 though is that when i suspend/resume my laptop I loose all my mouse settings. I have to go into System Settings -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Advanced and change pointer acc or something and then Apply.
Kind of annoying. Right now I don’t have any solution for this.
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November 2nd, 2008
I updated bios on my AAO to a latest version found on Acers site, version 3.305, after this everything worked fine until I came to work a few hours later. The AAO was completely dead, and I really mean dead. When I pressed the power button absolutely nothing happened. No LED showed any life.
Well, I just couldn’t get it up and running. I sent it to Acer, they switched the moderboard and when I got it back my SSD showed it was 77GB and had my ordinary three partitions and four extra ones and when I tried to boot on it all I could get was ‘No boot disk’. I tried to clean all partitions and start over. No luck.
Ialso got some nice new scratches on it from the service. Lovely. Too bad because I really did like the AAO but now I’m not that happy. I’ll get back when it’s returned from Germany or wherever it is.
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August 14th, 2008
I just bought myself an Acer Aspire One, it has a reasonable price and it works like a charm. The first thing I did was to follow this and install Kubuntu instead of Linpus Linux. Now it’s almost up and running like I want it to. Still has some kernel panics when sleeping but not that often.
The only thing I miss a lot is 3G functions. I really hate to have my Huawei E220 hanging around so I just gives my hope to some mod that will give me this. When that works.. I have my perfect world for.. like 10 minutes.
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June 3rd, 2008
Got myself a little Huawei E220 with my mail today. I had looked forward to an evening with fightning to get this started in Linux, but hell and crap. I have to stop using Linux now, everything is to easy. What to do now? I solved EVERYTHING with the latest stable deb from here. I just installed it with dpkg -i vodafone-mobile-connect-card-driver-for-linux_1.99.17_i386.deb and then I had to apt-get -f install to get some dependencies. So far, plug in the modem and wait a little while and watch dmesg and when it’s settled just start the Vodafone application.
You can send SMS, choose pin code, stop it from wanting pin code and so on. No problems what so ever. Everything you can do with the application for Windows works. As far as I know. Go on, find it, use it!
Lovely but boring. 
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