That’s better!
And on Feb 9th:
Looks like fairly consistent speeds, not quiet 3mb/s download but pretty close.
Time to upgrade my Internet connection!
This is using Verizon 1.5Mbps/384Kbps DSL service:
kde4 and ubuntu
Follow the instructions at the link below to install KDE 4 for Ubuntu:
http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-4.0.php
Screenshots follow! 🙂
KDE 4’s Show Desktop Grid, use Ctrl-F8:
Pick running app, use Ctrl-F10
If you want some more screenshots let me know.
Update: To install extra goodies do the following:
sudo aptitude install kde4
New Year’s Present from RadioHead
Tango Theme for N73
Neat, a Tango theme for my N73 Nokia Mobile phone!
http://wiki.sukimashita.com/Tango_Symbian60_Theme
Grab the Symbian60 3rd Edition (Regular, FP1) one for the N73.
Gnome theme problems.
Wow, major problems with Gnome and trying to change themes. Ended up the issue was some weird conflict with the gtk-qt-engine package. A simple:
apt-get remove –purge gtk-qt-engine
solved the problem. Of course it took a fews days of googling to find the answer, which was on Ubuntu’s bug tracker (don’t have the link handy sorry). The issue I had was that if I tried to change the theme or any part of the appearance of Gnome, the whole theming application would go blank. If you expierence this too, remove gtk-qt-engine .
R&B, Jazz, Motown in Toronto
Was up in Toronto for a couple of days visiting family. On Friday night a couple of us went to Zemra a bar/cafe around the corner for a drink, and there was a pretty decent band & singer playing. The singer was Errol Fisher, and he was really good and the band were very good too. If your in Toronto and get a chance to see Errol Fisher I’d recommend it!em
Evolution e-mail client & gnome-keyring
Recent updates on Debian for Novell’s (formerly Ximian’s) Evolution E-mail programme added support for gnome-keyring. When you start Evolution for the 1st time after the recent updates Evolution will ask for the gnome-keyring password, then for your smtp password (password for your e-mail account). This can be a bit of a pain, especially for less experienced users. If your using GDM as your login manager (the login screen) you can install the libpam-gnome-keyring and have this done for you at login.
Updated March 2008 with formatting changes.
First install libpam-gnome-keyring:
sudo aptitude install libpam-gnome-keyring
Then read this file:
less /usr/share/doc/libpam-gnome-keyring/README.Debian
The only thing you should have to do is this:
If you want the default password to be correctly changed together with he login password, you need to add the following line to etc/pam.d/common-password:
password optional pam_gnome_keyring.so
If you want to start gnome_keyring from another display manager, you need to add the following lines to the corresponding /etc/pam.d/?dm file:
auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so
session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start
If you saw my other instructions, they were wrong! (And deleted!) 🙂
However, it is possible that this wont’ work! Before you do anything else, check the file /etc/pam.d/gdm and see if the following 2 lines are already there:
auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so
session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start
If they aren’t, you’ll have to add them. So make a backup copy of the file:
sudo cp /etc/pam.d/gdm /etc/pam.d/gdm.org
and add the 2 lines to the END of the file. My copy of the file looks like this:
#%PAM-1.0
auth requisite pam_nologin.so
auth required pam_env.so readenv=1
auth required pam_env.so readenv=1 envfile=/etc/default/locale
@include common-auth
@include common-account
session required pam_limits.so
@include common-session
@include common-password
auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so
session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start
More information here:
More about Ireland’s property market.
David’s usually got some insights:
Back to basics for Ireland Inc
Cowen’s crocodile tears blurring economic vision
And an editorial at the Indo about the property market:
Instead of ripping off first-time buyers, the Government should have studied Sweden
Iceweasel browser identification
Debian replaced Firefox with Iceweasel which is a version of Firefox committed to all the Open Source freedom goodness stuff. However, some sites check the browser identification string and will refuse to let you view any of the pages because they don’t realise that Iceweasel is a version of Firefox (it’s based on the same code base as Firefox). Why some websites think they need to verify what browser your using is beyond me, I think they should just warn the user that the site might not work with their browser and let them in.
Updated March 2008, with formatting changes, and spelling corrections.
To get around this, you can change the browser identification that Iceweasel sends to websites. Follow the instructions below which is from Ubuntu’s wiki:
If you’re having trouble with browser identification — in other words, sites block your access because you’re “not using Firefox” — try this:
- Open “about:config” in IceWeasel‘s address bar.
- In the “Filter” box, type general.useragent.extra.firefox.
- Where you see the word “Iceweasel”, right-click and pick “Modify”
- Then replace the word “Iceweasel” with “Firefox”.
- Close the page (or the tab).
“Masquerading” your browser like that simply prevents the host site from telling you you’re not using Firefox. Aside from that, it should have no effect whatsoever on your collective Internet experience.
This is a bit sub-optimal as it changes the identification for all sites which means when they analyise their logs they won’t realise that people are running Iceweasel. Browsers such as KDE’s Konqueror allow you to change the browser’s identification on a per-site basis which I think would be great idea for Iceweasel/Firefox too.
Update: March 2007, added screenshot.
