Published by daryl September 1st, 2009
in Ubuntu.
If you get this Webilder error after updating to Jaunty as I did then you can fix as follows:
1. Backup the webilder.conf file:
cp ~/webilder/webilder.conf ~/webilder/webilder.conf.bak
2. Edit the webilder.conf file as follows - change line 20 from:
webilder.installation_date = time.struct_time(tm_year=2009, tm_mon=9, tm_mday=1, tm_hour=10, tm_min=34, tm_sec=56, tm_wday=1, tm_yday=244, tm_isdst=1)
to:
webilder.installation_date = (2008, 10, 26, 12, 25, 1, 6, 300, 1)
3. Save the file and retry adding the panel applet. All should work fine!
Published by daryl September 1st, 2009
in Linux and Ubuntu.
If you get an aMSN connection error message something like:
“No address associated with hostname”
after upgrading to Jaunty then you can fix by getting the latest version of aMSN directly from SVN’ as follows:
Continue reading ‘FIX: aMSN unable to connect after Ubuntu update to Jaunty Jackalope’
Published by daryl July 28th, 2009
in Linux.
If you are working with Drupal or anything else that complains about requiring a newer version of the GD library then you need to upgrade as follows:
1. Remove old version
sudo apt-get remove php5-gd
2. Add following lines to the file /etc/apt/sources.lst
deb http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all
deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all
3. Update and reinstall
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php5-gd
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Published by daryl May 8th, 2008
in Linux and Ubuntu.
I just upgraded my M1330 to 8.04 and noticed that Synergy was unusable because of lag.
This happened when running quicksynergy as a normal user. However you can workaround by running the synergy client as root.
sudo synergyc xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Published by daryl March 30th, 2008
in Linux and Ubuntu.
I got tired with having the cool desktop images that Webidler digs up for me being hidden behind a sea of icons on my desktop and had a clearup. However I couldn’t remove the icons for mounted volumes without unmounting them so dug up this command:
gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible false
Published by daryl March 15th, 2008
in Linux, Ruby, Rails, Ubuntu and hetzner.de.
1. Enable the universe repository
sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
Find and uncomment the following lines
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe main restricted universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
2. Install ruby
sudo apt-get install ruby ri rdoc
3. Install rubygems
sudo apt-get install rubygems
4. Install Rails
sudo gem install rails
NOTE: If you get, as I did, an error at this point:
uninitialized constant Gem::GemRunner
then the fix is:
sudo vi /usr/bin/gem
After the line require ‘rubygems’ add the line:
require 'rubygems/gem_runner'
5. Test installation
cd
rails testapp
cd testapp
./server start
Open a browser to http://localhost:3000 and you should see the rails welcome page.
You can remove the testapp with:
cd
rm -fr testapp
Published by daryl February 28th, 2008
in Teflon Tony.
Just love this entry from Wikipedia - now Rupert Murdoch, I can understand how he had his hand up Blair’s arse pulling the strings (no-one gets elected these days with out his nod) but Richard “Dirty” Desmond? Owner of “Asian Babes”? In Downing Street? Seriously - was Blair a fan? Still - I can understand the requirement for some of Dirty Des’s reading material aimed at mother thumb and her four daughters given the unfortunate looking Mrs Bliar… gives a whole new meaning to dirty dossier.
“A Cabinet Office freedom of information response, released the day after Blair handed over power to Gordon Brown, documents Blair having various official phone calls and meetings with Rupert Murdoch of News Corporation and Richard Desmond of Northern and Shell Media.
The response includes contacts “clearly of an official nature” in the specified period, but excludeds contacts “not clearly of an official nature.” No details were given of what subjects discussed. In the period between September 2002 and April 2005, Blair and Murdoch are documented speaking 6 times; three times in the 9 days before the Iraq war, including the eve of the March 20 US and UK invasion, and on January 29, April 25 and October 3 2004. Between January 2003 and February 2004, Mr Blair had three meetings with Richard Desmond; on January 29 and September 3 2003 and February 23 2004.
The information was disclosed after a three and a half year battle by the Lib Dem Lord Avebury.Lord Avebury’s initial October 2003 information request was dismissed by then leader of the Lords, Baroness Amos. A following complaint was rejected, with Downing Street claiming the information compromised free and frank discussions, while Cabinet Office claimed releasing the timing of the PM’s contacts with individuals is undesirable, as it might lead to the content of the discussions being disclosed. While awaiting a following appeal from Lord Avebury, the cabinet office announced that it would release the information. Lord Avebury said: “The public can now scrutinise the timing of his (Murdoch’s) contacts with the former Prime Minister, to see whether they can be linked to events in the outside world.”"
Published by daryl February 28th, 2008
in Corporate Crooks.
The European Commission has fined US computer giant Microsoft for defying sanctions imposed on it for anti-competitive behaviour. Microsoft must now pay a record 899m euros ($1.4bn; £680.9m) after it failed to comply with a 2004 ruling that it abused its dominant market position.
The ruling said that Microsoft was guilty of not providing key code to rival software makers.
EU regulators said the firm was the first to break an EU anti-trust ruling.
Continue reading ‘EU fines Micro$oft record $1.4bn’
Published by daryl February 24th, 2008
in Spurs.
Tottenham came from a goal down to beat Chelsea at Wembley and win the Carling Cup after extra-time. 
Jonathan Woodgate won it when Petr Cech disastrously punched the ball on to his head from Jermaine Jenas’s free-kick.
Pascal Chimbonda had hit the bar for Spurs, before Didier Drogba’s 20-yard free-kick gave Chelsea the lead with Paul Robinson badly out of position.
Spurs levelled when Wayne Bridge handled in the box and Dimitar Berbatov coolly rolled in the resulting penalty.
Continue reading ‘There’s only one club in London!’
Published by daryl February 19th, 2008
in Teflon Tony and Corporate Crooks.
Mike Turner, CEO of BAE Systems was out today cap in hand begging for more taxpayers cash to help fund his weapons of mass destruction.
Mr Turner said the government must find the money for planned weapons programmes or risk Britain losing the industrial capability necessary to defend itself, The Sunday Times reported.
Turner’s comments come as the Ministry of Defence struggles to resolve a 1.5 bln stg budget crisis that threatens several big defence programmes.
‘If you want to keep a defence industrial base, and operational sovereignty in the UK, then you are going to have to fund it, and research and development. If you don’t do that, you are dead,’ said “Mad” Mike in an interview with the paper.
He failed to mention how he feels knowing his companies products are directly responsible for millions of deaths a year - nor did he feel he should comment on Teflon Tony’s decision to drop the SFO investigation into the bribes made by his company.
Published by daryl February 17th, 2008
in Teflon Tony and Corporate Crooks.
Discredited former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, put “irresistible pressure” on investigators and “stepped over the boundaries of what was permissible” to call off a criminal investigation into allegations of corruption surrounding an arms deal with Saudi Arabia, the High Court here has been told.The Court is hearing an appeal from two anti-arms campaign groups — Corner House Research and the Campaign Against Arms — who want the investigation to be resumed.
The case relates to accusations that BAE Systems, Britain’s biggest arms supplier, paid more than £1 billion in bribes to members of the Saudi royal family to clinch a £43-billion defence deal in 1985.
Prince Bandar, son of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and former Ambassador to Washington, is among those accused of benefiting from the alleged “kickbacks.” The BAE as well as the Prince have denied any wrongdoing.
Continue reading ‘Tony Blair “stepped over the boundaries of what was permissible”.’
Published by daryl February 12th, 2008
in Database State and Corporate Crooks.
People in the UK who go online and illegally download music and films may have their internet access cut under plans the government is considering. A draft consultation suggests internet service providers would be required to take action over users who access pirated material via their accounts.
If made law the insane proposal would give ISPs, the UK government and any corporate entity free reign to inspect downloaded packets and prevent individual’s access to the internet.
Continue reading ‘Illegal downloaders ‘face UK ban’’
Published by daryl February 3rd, 2008
in Uncategorized.
On Gutsy had a problem installing the Ruby MySQL Gem:
Using:
sudo gem install mysql
gave the error:
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing mysql:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb install mysql
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lm... yes
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lz... yes
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lsocket... no
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lnsl... yes
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more
details. You may need configuration options.
To fix:
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev
Try again and all should be fine 
Published by daryl January 23rd, 2008
in Spurs.
Ooooh yeah mamma! The gooners don’t like it up ‘em as evidenced by the raft of lame excuses eminating from Arsenal after their piss-poor performance in the Carling cup semi-final last night.
A pulsating Tottenham performance saw them run riot against Arsenal to book a place in the Carling Cup final.
Spurs got off to the perfect start when Jermaine Jenas angled in a shot to put them 2-1 ahead on aggregate.
Arsenal’s Nicolas Bendtner then headed into his own net before Robbie Keane’s 18-yard shot put Spurs 3-0 up. Continue reading ‘Spurs stuff Arsenal in cup Semi-Final!’
Published by daryl January 21st, 2008
in Linux, Ubuntu and hetzner.de.
I couldn’t get this working in inet.d mode but here’s what I did to get it working in standalone.
1. Install ProFTP
sudo apt-get install proftpd
2. Edit proftpd.conf
sudo vi /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf
Make sure that ServerType is set to standalone and that you have your chosen hostname in ServerName.
ServerName myftphost
ServerType standalone
3. Make sure you have the same host name in you /etc/hosts file
sudo vi /etc/hosts
It should read something similar to:
# IPv4
127.0.0.1 localhost
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx myftphost
#
# IPv6
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback myftphost
You should then be able to start the server with:
sudo /etc/init.d/proftpd start
Published by daryl January 20th, 2008
in Linux, Ubuntu, hetzner.de and LAMP.
Assuming you have a fresh installation of apache2.
First we need to tell apache we will be using name based virtual hosts.
Continue reading ‘HOWTO: Set up Apache Virtual Hosts on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon’
Published by daryl January 20th, 2008
in Climate Diary and Sailing.
The level of the Mediterranean Sea is rising rapidly and could increase by up to half a metre in the next 50 years, scientists in Spain have warned. 
A study by the Spanish Oceanographic Institute says levels have been rising since the 1970s with the rate of increase growing in recent years.
It says even a small rise could have serious consequences in coastal areas.
The study noted that the findings were consistent with other investigations into the effects of climate change.
Continue reading ‘Warning on rising Med Sea levels’
Published by daryl January 20th, 2008
in Linux, Ubuntu and LAMP.
Dead easy… assuming no Apache, MySQL or PHP yet installed the following should do the trick.
sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql php5
Published by daryl January 12th, 2008
in Linux and Ubuntu.
Having tried Gnash but found some problems I decided to install Adobe Flash but ran into an error with the installer:
Your architecture, \’x86_64\’, is not supported by the Adobe Flash Player installer.
Not too helpful… I browsed around a bit but found that most of the solutions involved copying the plugin files manually however this didn’t work until I happened on additional step. So the solution for me was:
Continue reading ‘HOWTO: Install Flash 9 on Ubuntu 64-bit’
Published by daryl January 3rd, 2008
in Linux and M1330.
So I’ve been running a Dell M1330 under Ubuntu now for a few days and it’s sweet No problems found so far and compiz flies along using the Intel X3100 (GM965 chipset). Who needs NVidia huh? Me I guess as I still can’t get Eve Online to play nicely under Ubuntu although it runs sweetly enough in Vista.
Anyway - today found me having to access a test tool that only supports IE, another case of somebody assuming the world revolves around Windows. I’m running Virtualbox with Vista no problems but for some reason the ActiveX control wouldn’t install under VBox so I decided to give IEs4Linux a go.
1. Open a terminal and install wine and cabextract
sudo apt-get install wine cabextract
2. Get the latest version of IEs4Linux
wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads
/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
3. Extract and run
tar -xvzf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
cd ies4linux-*
./ies4linux
This will run a cool little app that will download the required packages from Micro$oft. It had a problem installing Flash for me so I unchecked that box but IE installed no probs and left me with an icon on my desktop. The ActiveX control also ran without issues.
4. (Optional) Donate a couple of buck to Sérgio to say thanks!
