Tag Archives: Linux

rdate in moservices for o!play

Posted on 04/05/2011 by Ricardo

moServices is a package to add additional services to the Asus O! Play R1 and Asus O! Play Air (R3). One of the services is rdate, which allows the player to synchronize itself with a timeserver. The thing is the … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 10.4 and smbpasswd syncronization

Posted on 21/06/2010 by Ricardo

Watch out for this bug when configuring samba using the old fashion smb.conf in ubuntu 10.4. By default, the samba password is reset to the system password of that user every time you login. I noticed that although it does … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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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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