bitwalk

This is my first post from my new iMac 24". I'm totally in love with this wonderful machine. Below is a snapshot of the desktop.

Ok, I've written about how I managed to get resumable vnc sessions working in feisty before, now I've upgraded to Gutsy Gibbon and ofcourse it stopped working. Apparently the fonts have moved on disc, so I needed to change my Xvnc.conf file to reflect this. The font parameter should look like this: /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=122402&page=37

Found these clear instructions on how to get truecrypt running in Ubuntu 7.10. Worked like a charm!

Now I just need to figure out how to grab a screenshot with this fancy desktop cube enabled.

There is a great site about linux on laptops and over there I found a guy that have been writing a guide for linux on TX3XP a laptop very similar to mine. But I think that is a bit old. Most of the things in his article is already working on my install of feisty. But while googling for the special vaio button drivers I found this interesting page where work are being put into enhancing this support. So I ran the acpidump tool and published the dump from my laptop in the named thread on ubuntuforums. If you have a vaio laptop you should do the same!

I've started a new category. It's about my experiences from running linux on my Sony Vaio TX2XP laptop. I'm currently writing this from said laptop and at the moment Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) is the distro of choice. I had to try a few times to get it to install, but it might have been due to a bad disc, dunno, but don't get worried just yet, except for that I'm pretty happy with the experience so far. Stay tuned for more news and I promise I'll post screenshots of interesting bits. On my first day I've managed to get the necesseties listed below out of the way.

• Wifi
• Turned off synaptics mouse tap
• Turned off synaptics touch pad while writing
• Adobe Reader
• Java
• Eclipse

To connect to a detached session (rtorrent for example):

screen -dr rtorrent

To detach from the actual session (rtorrent for example):

ctrl-a ctrl-d

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For some time I've had the problem I sometimes can't open .chm's. I just get a missing page message no matter what book I click in the table of contents. I've been puzzled about it, but I haven't really thought about what could be the problem. Today, when I realized none of chm's seemed to work, I decided to ask google about it. At this point I wasn't even surprised when it turned out that some of the recent security updates from Microsoft had removed the ability to browse these from a networked resource. Duh! In order to solve the problem just add this to your registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\HTMLHelp\1.x\ItssRestrictions]
"MaxAllowedZone"=dword:00000004

Lesson learned: Always suspect a recent security update, before anything else.

Had some problems getting this guide to work, I just got a simple grey X screen, but from this excellent guide I found the new parameters '-extension XFIXES' to add to Xvnc configuration and that solved it for me!

I used to have problems compiling Geoff's spe samples. But now I'm suddenly able to compile them without errors. The only things I have installed since my last failed attempt is 'ed' and 'elfspe2'. Let's assume elfspe2 is the solution until proven otherwise. I found an interesting thread when browsing cell forums on ibm yesterday that suggested you'll have to install elfspe2 manually. So here's what I did:

wget http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/cellsimulator/sdk2.1/elfspe2-2.1.0-0.ppc.rpm
rpm -Ivh elfspe2-2.1.0-0.ppc.rpm