Tag Archives: Informática

Arch Linux: Flash plugin focus in firefox

Posted on 11/12/2009 by Ricardo

For those having problems with flash plugin in firefox on arch linux, more properly, not being able to click the controls in a video in youtube, one of this actons solved it (I don’t know which one because I applied … Continue reading →

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OpenID

Posted on 07/11/2009 by Ricardo

Tried to use this site’s URL with phpMyID – A standalone, single user, OpenID Identity Provider from CJ Niemira – but it’s not OpenID 2.0 compatible so now I’m using delegation to MyOpenID. It works great and the setup was … Continue reading →

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Firefox & "Open containing folder"

Posted on 21/07/2009 by Ricardo

In Ubuntu 9.04 some how Firefox 3.5 was using acroread to open the containing folder of the downloads. To solve this I just went to Edit > Preferences >Aplications and for the content type file I chose the action “Use … Continue reading →

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Eclipse, Java and Ubuntu 9.04

Posted on 09/06/2009 by Ricardo

If eclipse is always throwing a nullpointerexception when trying to edit a Visual Class in Visual Editor, remember to set the default JRE to java-6-sun.

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wicd on eduroam

Posted on 25/05/2009 by Ricardo

With two ESSIDs on one AP wicd didn’t connect automatically to the hidden network using WPA-EAP with TTLS. I managed to get it working by hardcoding the ESSID in the template I built for this in /etc/wicd/encryption/templates. Here are the … Continue reading →

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HP iPAQ 214

Posted on 05/03/2009 by Ricardo

… é uma bosta. A HP conseguiu criar um PDA com hardware excelente (ecrã VGA, processador rápido, etc) mas sem o devido software para o acompanhar. Parece que estou a testar uma versão alpha do WM 6.0 há quantidade de … Continue reading →

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Linux works again

Posted on 03/11/2008 by Ricardo

I can again use linux to access the eduroam wireless network on my university. Not with the shitty network-manager but with good old wpa_supplicant. It took from kernel 2.6.22 till now (2.6.27) for wireless to work reliably on this laptop … Continue reading →

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Downgrade de Vista para Xp

Posted on 06/12/2007 by Ricardo

Vou fazer o downgrade do Vista para o XP porque estou farto de não me conseguir ligar a rede wireless da faculdade, sem perceber porquê, para após um reboot já conseguir. Aproveito e deixo aqui o que consegui apurar: Em … Continue reading →

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aMule & gmail

Posted on 16/09/2007 by Ricardo

No seguimento do meu último post, tenho a reportar que já consegui fazer com que o amuled me envie um mail sempre que acaba de fazer um download. Para isso instalei o ultimo snapshot do aMule CVS, e no amule.conf … Continue reading →

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exim4 & Gmail

Posted on 22/08/2007 by Ricardo

Para quem queira utilizar o Gmail como smarthost do exim4 em debian, sugiro este excelente tutorial: GmailAndExim4 O meu objectivo final é que caso exista algum mail para o root no computador, eu o receba na minha conta de email … Continue reading →

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