Tweetdeck and 64Bit Linux

Dec 24th

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Debian

So I’ve been trying to get TweetDeck running on my work PC for a while, and none of the howto’s I followed were able to help :(

Then this morning I stumbled apon this gem and lo and behold it worked (kinda) I just had to set the permisisons on the /opt/Adobe Air/ directory.

AWESOME!!! :D

Anyways, this is mainly so if I ever reinstall (which I tend to do anyways every couple of weeks lolz… selftorture++)

Zend Studio and Git

Dec 17th

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Uncategorized

So for the past couple of weeks I’ve been using Zend Studio 7.1, and I’m loving it, just wish I had the cash to buy a licence… :/

Well as I’m using GIT for all my source control I was unable to use the team features of ZS, then again I still use the command line for most of my git foo ;)

Then I stumbled apon This gem and now have git and Zend studio working awesomely :)

Syncing google and my toys

Dec 5th

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Debian

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So for a while now I have had google syncing my contacts and calendar with my Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone. Google Symbian Sync

Then earlier today I stumbled apon “how to sync evolution with googles pim apps” which allows me to sync my contacts and calendar with Evolution (I’m using Ubuntu 9.10 on my netbook)

This is awesome, now if I add a contact to either my phone, gmail or evolution it gets synced across all devices… #FTW!!!

New host and toys… :)

Nov 22nd

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Debian

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My 100th entry :D

New Toys
Cecilia and myself were looking over the finances the other day, and due to her laptop giving issues, and myself not having a decent machine. At the moment iBurst is running a special where you get a netbook, USB modem and 1Gb bandwidth a month We found it would be cheaper to cancel the current Internet connection and get two of these and external hosting.

I am currently writing this post on my netbook. :)

The netbook is a Samsung N140.

  • CPU: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz (Dual core)
  • Memory: 1Gb
  • HDD: 160Gb
  • Wifi: BGN
  • Bluetooth 2.1
  • Screen 10.1″ 1024×600

Hosting
For the past couple of years I have been hosting this blog on my server at home, I got static IP from iBurst which helped. unfortunatly due to bandwidth usage and cost I have had to move this blog offsite (moved my mail a couple of months ago)

So this blog is now hosted by A Small Orange, and thanks goes out to Geoff Garbers for suggesting them :)

Well now back to setting up a dev enviroment on the netbook… :)

DD-WRT finally… :)

Nov 15th

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Debian

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So last night I installed DD-WRT on my Linksys WRT54GL

So far it’s pretty kewl… :)

Next step Serial Port Hack and MMC hack and then Debian… :)

after

New network/machine setup

Nov 14th

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Debian

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So I finally got myself the Linksys WRT54GL and now my network hardware went from:

Before

And now after:

After

Now to try load DD-WRT onto her, and then eventually Debian… :)

Also finally sorted out the laptop that I am using, well the screen was moved to Cecilia’s laptop and this one was using the external, with a wireless keyboard and mouse.

Recycled Laptop

Well just waiting for the last couple of thing to finish on Cecilia’s laptop (had to reinstall) and then off to bed…

What a month… – Update

Oct 21st

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Cars

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So, things are slowly getting back to normal… Quote has been approved, they hopfully start fixing the car in the next couple of days. I also got my phone yesterday.

I know I have chosen to not talk about work here, but I just have to mention that I am very happy working for TheClassified, my boss (Jonathan Page) has been very helpfull and patient during this time, I am very greatfull. Thanks Jonathan.

Well that is all for now, hopefully don’t have to wait too long for my car, although I’m gonna miss the rental car when I give it back… (VW Golf 1 – brings back memories)

Broken Bumper

What a month… :(

Oct 9th

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Cars

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So last week tues (29 Sep) I decide to walk to the shops and I got mugged, lost money, cards and my cellphone…

Then on my way home from work today, I hit a dog. Lucky for the dog it was quick and painless, but unlucky for the car, the raidiator is cracked, and bumper is broken.

Now comes the insurance… Well I’m hoping thats the end of it… sigh…

Canon IP1800 – update

Sep 24th

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Debian

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In my last post I mentioned how to get this printer working in Debian, and since then have found a better (no ignoring dependancies) method.

Taken from: http://nomo17k.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/canon-pixma-ip1800-for-debian-lenny/

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Canon PIXMA iP1800 for Debian Lenny

Filed under: Debian, Lenny, Linux — nomo17k @ 12:51

This is a cheap inkjet printer that I got for my temporary printing needs. The cartridges are very expensive (> $16 !!), so for heavy use this isn’t really worth my money. Anyways…

Install CUPS and printing-related packages:

# apt-get install cupsys cupsys-client libcupsys2
# apt-get install cupsys-driver-gimpprint cupsys-bsd
# apt-get install foomatic-db-engine foomatic-db-gimp-print foomatic-filters
# apt-get install hp-ppd linuxprinting.org-ppds printfilters-ppd
# apt-get install foomatic-filters-ppds
# apt-get install gs-gpl libpng3 ijsgutenprint

(Note that I downloaded a few packages that are not necessary for this particular printer. This is a generic collection of packages that I find useful to use printers in other places like my office.)

Download deb packages of the printer driver:

cnijfilter-common_2.70-3_i386.deb
cnijfilter-ip1800series_2.70-3_i386.deb

and install them:

# dpkg -i cnijfilter-common_2.70-3_i386.deb cnijfilter-ip1800series_2.70-3_i386.deb

If CUPS has been installed properly, visit the CUPS admin page (http://localhost:631/admin) with your browser. You will be able to configure the printer in the standard CUPS way.

Taken from: http://nomo17k.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/canon-pixma-ip1800-for-debian-lenny/

I copied and pasted so I have a copy incase that site disapears.

Debian Mirror and GPG issues

Aug 27th

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Debian

So I had a mirror up and running beautifully, and then after running the update scripts I lost the GPG authentication.

I was getting the following errors:
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
foo bar baz
Install these packages without verification [y/N]?

I struggled for a while to get this to work, and then gave up, but I finally got this sorted out :)

Firstly as the user running the mirror script:
gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring ~/.gnupg/trustedkeys.gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys

I needed to add the following keys:
16BA136C – Backports.org Archive Key
55BE302B – Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (5.0/lenny)
F42584E6 – Lenny Stable Release Key
55BE302B – Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (5.0/lenny)
0C5A2783 – Medibuntu Packaging Team
1F41B907 – Christian Marillat
437D05B5 – Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key
6DFBCBAE – Sun Microsystems, Inc. (xVM VirtualBox archive signing key)
BBE55AB3 – Debian-Volatile Archive Automatic Signing Key (4.0/etch)

The Medibuntu key was a little strange to get as noted on this post: How To: Make Your Own Ubuntu Repository DVDs

Also removed the “–ignore-release-gpg” option from the scripts, this will at least warn me the next time something like this happens… ;)

And then run the mirror scripts again and voila

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