Solved icons problems

Got some very nasty icon problems and part of the upper panel was gone; for instance volume control and logout button; installed lxappearence:
http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/LXAppearance.
This made new custum settings very easy to set and to experiment with

Information independance: how to import GMail onto your local pc

For different reasons it is wise to import the email you have on GMail to your local pc.
First install Thunderbird:

sudo aptitude install mozilla-thunderbird

Act upon the info given here.
So install the webmail plugin by going here and downloading the xpi file to a local folder (right click and save as). You first have to install the Webmail add on and after that the GMail add on (or Yahoo etc.):

1. In Mozilla Thunderbird, open the extension manager (Tools Menu/Extensions).
2. Click the Install button, and locate/select the file you downloaded and click "OK".

After you have installed both (restart Thunderbird each time) you can add your gmail account. In Thunderbird: edit, account settings, add account and provide the needed information.

Restored sound after update Pulse Audio

After an update from pulse audio no sound (Hardy).
Alt+ F2 and run gstreamer-properties, selected Alsa as default output plugin ( was default) and sound returned again.

Kernels updating

You can find out what kernel you are currently using with the uname command:

uname -r


Show installed but unused linux headers, image, or modules:

dpkg -l 'linux-*' | sed '/^ii/!d;/'"$(uname -r | sed "s/\(.*\)-\([^0-9]\+\)/\1/")"'/d;s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* \([^ ]*\).*/\1/;/[0-9]/!d'

Stream to Freecom MusicPal with gmediaserver

Freecom MusicPal needs a UPnP media server. First I tried mediatomb; got a elaborate error message : "main: upnp error -203"
Then Fuppes in content quite the same sort of error: fuppes failed to bind socked.

Then installed GMediaserver;error message gmediaserver: missing directory argument
when typing:

gmediaserver content_directory './mp3'

then typed in terminal:

gmediaserver -v '/home/paul/mp3'


Feedback:
gmediaserver process id 1989 starting
UPnP MediaServer listening on 192.168.1.10:49152
Sending UPnP advertisement for device (expire time 100 seconds)...
Listening for control point connections...

Shutting down...

and it stopped
with this command it didn't stop:
gmediaserver content_directory './mp3'

In

/etc/default/gmediaserver
you can read:

# gmediaserver control (yes means start daemon).
GMEDIASERVERRUN=no

#GMEDIASERVERARGS="--profile=mp101 -ieth0"

GMEDIASERVERDIR="/usr/share/sounds"

Probably the last line has to be changed to your streaming folder: 

GMEDIASERVERDIR="/home/paul/mp3"

After changing this terminal typing:

gmediaserver './mp3'

no fault messages anymore. But the serving stopped after each song or sometimes after a few minutes. Then found this terminal command

gmediaserver --friendly-name=gmediaserver -i eth0 -v4 ~/mp3

Feedback, songlist and:


Using IP address 192.168.1.10.
Initializing UPnP subsystem...
UPnP MediaServer listening on 192.168.1.10:49153
Enabling UPnP web server...
Generating device UDN (UUID)...
UDN: uuid:6ad8275a-18be-4a74-9402-4a3673f46533
Registering UPnP root device...
Sending UPnP advertisement for device (expire time 100 seconds)...
Listening for control point connections...


source:http://www.pervasive-network.org/SPIP/Partager-des-contenus-avec-UPnP
btw great site with lots of other important info!! French though..


ECIS Provides A History of Microsoft's AntiCompetitive Behavior

Tuesday, April 21 2009 @ 06:13 PM EDT

You have to read this paper! Microsoft - A History of Anticompetitive Behavior and Consumer Harm [PDF], and it's from the European Committee for Interoperable Systems, or ECIS. ECIS has written it in support of the EU Commission's recent preliminary findings, on January 15, 2009, that Microsoft violated antitrust law by tying IE to Windows. It is, to the best of my knowledge, the first time that the issue of Microsoft's patent threats against Linux have been framed in a context of anticompetitive conduct. It presents a history, albeit not totally comprehensive, of some of the notable anticompetitive conduct from the past, like against DR-DOS and Netscape and WordPerfect, but it also presents current issues, including the saga of how ISO/IEC DIS 29500, formerly known as OOXML, got approved as a standard: The EC is also investigating Microsoft's actions to manipulate the vote of the International Organization for Standardization / International Electrotechnical Commission on the recent standardization of Office "Open" XML ("OOXML"). As reported widely in the press and on the Internet, Microsoft's manipulation of the standards setting process in favor of OOXML included financial inducements, threats, misleading information, and committee-stuffing. These investigations are compelling examples of Microsoft's continued misconduct related to its monopolies in operating systems and other products. source: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090421111327711 Now you could have known and should have known what you support by buyng M$ software....

when a damaged rar file doesn't open

Sometimes a damaged rar file won't open using nautilus native extractor.
First you can test the file by

unrar t filepart1.rar

When the files prove right you can

unrar e file.part1.rar

The recovery mode seems only to work using unrar.

Btw under Debian Linux, you need to type apt-get as follows to install unrar program:
# sudo apt-get install unrar