http://timony.com/mickzblog Things that interest me. Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:05:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After upgrading to Flash 10 sound stopped working. Installing the flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound package solved that problem for me: aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound If your using pulse audio, install the flashplugin-nonfree-pulse package. It doesn't look like the Debian flash plug-in suggests either package: apt-cache show flashplugin-nonfree|more Package: flashplugin-nonfree Priority: optional Section: contrib/web ... Suggests: iceweasel, konqueror-nsplugins, x-ttcidfont-conf, msttcorefonts, ttf-dejavu, ttf-xfree86-nonfree, xfs ... http://timony.com/mickzblog/2009/01/01/adobe-flash-sound-not-working-with-iceweasel-on-debian/ I wrote this up for a friend whose arriving at Boston's Logan Airport whom has never been there before and has to get from Terminal E (Aer Lingus) to Terminal B (US Airways). It's pretty simple, and I thought this might be of use to someone else: It's not a big ... http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/12/15/getting-from-one-terminal-to-another-at-bostons-logan-airport/ Doesn't perform badly, I've been using it recently with Ruby code, and I like how it colourises the code, and does auto-completion of code. It's not as fast as using Emacs, or vi, but I find the featurs generally handy and convienent. And it doesn't look too bad either. It ... http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/12/03/netbeans-65-on-debian/ I'd heard that Dell were offering Ubuntu Linux on some of their laptops and I hadn't really looked into it. But I came across this page the other day and it's pretty neat to get Ubuntu (or any Linux) preloaded on a laptop from a major vendor: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=d It's good to support ... http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/10/21/dell-laptops-ubuntu/ Support Boston's Pine Street Inn this year and buy holidays cards based on a photograph I took: http://www.pinestreetinn.org/store/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=61 The photograph also came 24th in the Boston Globe's 2008 Winter Wonderland contest: http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/02/22/winter-wonderland-24/ Penny over at BostonZest did a write up on this and asked me to comment on the picture: http://www.bostonzest.com/2008/10/holiday-cards-to-support-pine-street-inn.html http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/10/17/support-pine-street-inn/ I figured it's time for me to try and install kde4 again! Previously I had to remove KDE4 due to package conflicts. There are installation instructions at: http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html So following the instructions there on what changes to make to your sources.list, and then run: aptitude update I've had some dependency issues, and installing the ... http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/10/12/kde4-and-debian/ I thought I'd start looking at using Debian's experimental E17 packages. I commented out all other E17 repo's from my source.list and installed the debian e17 package. It installs a minimal amount of related packages, and there doesn't seem to be lot of e17 packages available in the experimental repo sudo ... http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/10/12/debians-e17-packages/ WTF is Citibank thinking with their web interface: When I'm looking at my old statements I don't want to have to wait for a PDF to download, then for Adobe Acrobat to open just so I can briefly look at an old statement. Come on there Citibank, give me a default option ... http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/10/05/but-i-dont-want-a-pdf/ I'm thinking of getting a new laptop either the Lenova ThinkPad T400 (which is a replacement for the T61), or the IdeaPad U330 to replace my aging Dell 700m The big thing for me is do they work with Linux (for me specifically Debian or Ubuntu). For anyone interested in either laptop, ... http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/09/23/lenovo-laptop/ http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/09/21/tinkling-tide-at-the-backstrands/