The fix for this is to install libstdc++5and then reinstall Lightning. Close thunderbird and then in a terminal:
sudo apt-get remove lightning
sudo apt-get install libstdc++5
sudo apt-get install lightning
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FIX: Thuderbird - Lightning ‘New Calendar’ menu item grayed out
Published by April 14th, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsFIX: Updating Ubuntu gives ‘Could not find postinst hook script [update-grub]’ error.
Published by April 14th, 2009 in Linux, Ubuntu and Libretto U100. 0 CommentsI installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my Toshiba U100 which does not work too well with grub. Having installed 8.10 and replaced Grub with Lilo I ran update manager for all updates.
This failed when updating the kernel with the error ‘Could not find postinst hook script [update-grub]’.
To fix after running the update manager simply open a terminal and run the following commands.
HOWTO: Set up NFS remote file shariing and mounting in Ubuntu
Published by March 2nd, 2009 in Linux and Ubuntu. 0 CommentsScenario: You have two Ubuntu PCs - you want to share a folder from one to the other. A common answer you’ll see posted around to this is to use Samba. While this does allow the shared folder to be accessed by Windoze machines there is a far simpler and more efficient method that can be used when both machines are Linux.
In the following guide ‘Server’ means the computer where the folder to be shared is (192.168.2.2 in my example) and ‘Client’ (192.168.2.3) is where you would like to access the folder from.
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FIX: dependency is not satisfiable: libicu36 when installing Chandler on Ubuntu
Published by March 2nd, 2009 in Linux and Ubuntu. 3 CommentsI tried installing installing Chandler the GTD app from the .deb file but got an error about ‘dependency is not satisfiable: libicu36′.
This is as newer versions of Ubuntu use libicu38.
To fix the error try:
wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/icu/libicu36_3.6-3ubuntu0.1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i libicu36_3.6-3ubuntu0.1_i386.deb
Then try installing the Chandler .deb again.
Those Kingsnorth police injuries in full: six insect bites and a toothache
Published by February 26th, 2009 in Climate Diary and Police State. 0 CommentsWhen climate camp protesters descended on the site of the Kingsnorth power station for a week-long summer demonstration, the scale of the police operation to cope with them was enormous.
Police were accused of using aggressive tactics, confiscating everything from toilet rolls and board games to generators and hammers. But ministers justified what they called the “proportionate” £5.9m cost of the operation, pointing out that 70 officers had been injured in the course of their duties.
But data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act puts a rather different slant on the nature of those injuries, disclosing that not one was sustained in clashes with demonstrators.
Papers acquired by the Liberal Democrats via Freedom of Information requests show that the 1,500 officers policing the Kingsnorth climate camp near the Medway estuary in Kent, suffered only 12 reportable injuries during the protest during August.
The Home Office has now admitted that the protesters had not been responsible for any injuries. In a three-line written answer to a parliamentary question, the Home Office minister Vernon Coaker wrote to the Lib Dem justice spokesman, David Howarth, saying: “Kent police have informed the Home Office that there were no recorded injuries sustained as a result of direct contact with the protesters.”
Only four of the 12 reportable injuries involved any contact with protesters at all and all were at the lowest level of seriousness with no further action taken.
The other injuries reported included “stung on finger by possible wasp”; “officer injured sitting in car”; and “officer succumbed to sun and heat”. One officer cut his arm on a fence when climbing over it, another cut his finger while mending a car, and one “used leg to open door and next day had pain in lower back”.
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Spain’s foreign minister has said his country is prepared “in principle” to take in some inmates released from the Guantanamo Bay US military camp.
Miguel Angel Moratinos was speaking after a meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington.
He said Spain would consider taking prisoners on a case by case basis and only under acceptable legal conditions.
About 250 people are still held in the camp, which President Barack Obama has ordered to be shut down within a year.
Mr Moratinos said Mrs Clinton had asked him for “help in solving this drama, this unacceptable tragedy of the prisoners at Guantanamo”.
“We are prepared to cooperate. Our teams will make contact to legally study each case on a case by case basis,” he told Spanish media.
HOWTO: Install a .TTF Font in Ubuntu Hardy Heron
Published by September 23rd, 2008 in Linux, Ubuntu and Hardy Heron. 1 CommentIf you have a .ttf file (lets call it your_font.ttf) that you have downloaded and want to install it as an available font you should follow these steps:
1. Create somewhere to keep your .ttf fonts:
sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/custom
2. Copy your font there:
sudo cp your_font.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/custom
3. Run the following command to rebuild your font cache:
sudo fc-cache -f -v
That should be it! Your sexy new font should now be available.
My U100 needs a replacement screen so I’ve been hunting around for some information on how to replace it. I was lucky enough to come across the U100 maintenance manual which I’ve made available here.
HOW TO: Load and display images from a folder in PHP
Published by September 21st, 2008 in php. 1 CommentIf you have an unknown quantity of images in a folder and want to cycle through them and display (in a table or similar) then this snippet should get you started.
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Add a ‘Stop Phorm’ button to your website.
Published by September 20th, 2008 in free web. 0 CommentsAs you probably already know Phorm plan to spy on every move you make on the internet so they can target advertising at you, cuz they figure you don’t see enough in a day… This is the thin edge of a very dangerous wedge and needs to be stopped now.
The British Government appears to be caving in to it’s commercial sponsors and is set to allow this to be rolled out. Once it’s done there will be little hope of ever getting it removed so if you care about your privacy you need to act now.
Please go here and sign the petitition, add the ’stop phorm’ button below to your website or blog if you have one to encourage others to do the same. If you are in the UK then write to your MP. If you can do nothing else then please at least Digg this article or share somehow using one of the options below.
Thanks
To add the ‘Stop Phorm’ button to your website or blog copy and paste the code below:
<a href="http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/ispphorm/"><img src="http://www.daryl.mu/images/stop_phorm.png" title="Stop Phorm" alt="Stop Phorm!" border="0" height="15" width="80" /></a>
