Gmail Notifier is the best gmail checker I have found. It makes use of libnotify and the Indicator Applet in GNOME, so it plugs in brilliantly with Karmic
Monthly Archive for January, 2010
Getting Ubuntu on a HP mini 100 is well documented and well supported, to make wireless and ethernet work see here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport/Machines/Netbooks#Karmic
Thing is, the driver packges needed by the Broadcom Wireless card are on the Install Media, they are just not included in the default install set. So a couple of commands during the install process and you can have wireless working on first boot.
Install Ubuntu. After install, before you hit restart press: ctrl+alt+F1
At the terminal prompt:
$ sudo su - # chroot /target # aptitude install bcmwl-kernel-sources
Now press ctrl+alt+F7 and click Reboot. You should now have wireless on first boot.
I have been frustrated with the Exchange server here at work, and found that Evolution MAPI support simply crashes everytime I try it. It is in the ubuntu bug list if you want to go hunting. And I really don’t like Evolution anyway.
But I just found DavMail, and it appears to work great. It is basically a java program that connects to an Outlook OWA (up tp 2007) and presents the information through standard services IMAP/SMTP/CalDAV. So I can now use Sunbird as my Calendar client, pointing it to a CalDAV server running on localhost, and it seems to work a treat. Installation is straightforward on most platforms and after a bit of fidlling with the settings it is up and running.
You know the font situation on debian and gnome isn’t terrible in lenny. Actually it looks fairly decent. Until you load icedove (thunderbird).
The fonts are teeny, pixelated and hard to read. Luckily it is a very easy fix.
Open icedove, go to “Edit -> Preference -> Advanced -> Config Editor”
Change the value for “layout.css.dpi” from “-1″ to “0″
Restart icedove
My move to rackspace is complete, dreamhost is only providing my DNS now. Being able to control my own apache configs is brilliant. And the site seems faster enough, perhaps even a little faster.
There are other giudes to do this, but none seemed complete, I had to get the iptables rules from the debug document on poptop.org. I guess they are not always needed.
Continue reading ‘Setting up pptpd on debian (lenny)’
I tried the blackra1n jailbreak a couple of weeks ago. Wow amazingly easy and quick. I have since restored my phone to a pre-jailbroken state. To be perfectly honest I have not found a compelling reason to run jailbroken since 3.0. But I like to see whats happening on that front every once in a while.
I am thinking of moving host again. I have no issues with dreamhost, but I have been playing with the rackspace cloud, and I like it.
I can have my own virtual machine, lowest specs, for abut the same price as dreamhost each month. And since it is my own box I can do whatever I like with it.
If this site got more hits, and I had to increase the specs, dreamhost would be cheaper, but no one comes here so rackspace will work super.
More importantly this lets me setup a vpn server outside of Australia. While I find it very unlikely that I will ever go to a site banned by the government’s filtering scheme, my protest is to simply bypass it.
The move will happen over the next few weeks as I find time to install wordpress on debian and get it configured and hardened. The DNS will be staying on dreamhost, so I doubt any changes will be noticed.