Rob Garth » karmic http://blog.sumostyle.net/robg Mildly Useful Stuff Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:36:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 GMail Notifier http://blog.sumostyle.net/robg/2010/01/28/gmail-notifier/ http://blog.sumostyle.net/robg/2010/01/28/gmail-notifier/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:53:13 +0000 robg http://blog.sumostyle.net/robg/?p=431 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

]]> http://blog.sumostyle.net/robg/2010/01/28/gmail-notifier/feed/ 1 Ubuntu 9.10 has a broken tsclient included http://blog.sumostyle.net/robg/2009/11/18/ubuntu-9-10-has-a-broken-tsclient-included/ http://blog.sumostyle.net/robg/2009/11/18/ubuntu-9-10-has-a-broken-tsclient-included/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:29:46 +0000 robg http://blog.sumostyle.net/robg/?p=384 The tsclient included with Karmic has a broken tsclient applet. It is a known bug, as simple as a typo. It was discovered over 4 months ago, and a fix has been made upstream.

For whatever reason, nothing has been done other than having the big confirmed.

If you depend on the tsclient applet, as I do, grab the package from debian and install it.

Grab the package for you architecture from here.

And simply install it with dpkg:

$ sudo dpkg -i tsclient_0.150-3_i386.deb

The only difference between this release and the one previous is the removal of this bug, which is a fairly serious bug. Including this in the karmic repo would be trivial, and it should have been done before the 9.10 went final.

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Supposedy blueman can do this very easily (www.blueman-project.org). To install blueman just run:
$ sudo aptitude install blueman.

My experience with blueman has been very hit and miss however, the connection appears to be made via bluetooth but I can rarely seem to get NetworkManager to make a network connection. Sometimes I have success pairing the devices again.

Using the older pand binary I have had a lot more success. If you are not scared of the terminal, it isn’t difficult and appears far more reliable

Install the older bluez tools:

$ sudo aptitude install bluez-compat

$ hcitool scan

Find the address of your phone from the list

$ sudo pand --connect 00:25:00:96:13:BB -n

This command will pair you phone to your computer and create a pan device. Of course replacing the MAC address with the address of your phone. This command will re-pair you devices each time it is run. If, like me you have an iPhone, you need to have you iPhone in the Bluetooth System Preference app to accept the pairing.

$ sudo dhclient bnep0

You are now tethered.

To kill the tether:

$ sudo pand -K

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