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I am using skype each day and I was waiting for a new version for linux. Here it is 1.4.0.74 beta. Installation was simple: apt-get install libqt4-core libqt4-gui<br></br>dpkg -i skype-1.4.0.74.deb First problem, aparently the old configuration does not work since at login I get a “Database error” so from start all the history is lost mv .Skype/ .Skype.old Then the interface is completely new yet instead of new functionality the group configuration is now missing so all my contacts are now in the same list with no (apparent) way of grouping them together....

After using OpenOffice 2.2 in Feisty I was much disappointed. Hours of work lost I decided to remove everything and install from openoffice.org. find the packages to remove dpkg --list | grep ii | grep openoffice | cut -c5-35<br></br><br></br>openoffice.org-calc <br></br>openoffice.org-common <br></br>openoffice.org-core <br></br>openoffice.org-draw <br></br>openoffice.org-gnome <br></br>openoffice.org-gtk <br></br>openoffice.org-help-en-us <br></br>openoffice.org-help-fr <br></br>openoffice.org-hyphenation<br></br>openoffice.org-impress <br></br>openoffice.org-l10n-common<br></br>openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb <br></br>openoffice.org-l10n-en-za <br></br>openoffice.org-l10n-fr <br></br>openoffice.org-math <br></br>openoffice.org-style-human<br></br>openoffice.org-thesaurus-e<br></br>openoffice.org-writer<br></br> remove them (you need to press Y occasionally) for i in $(dpkg --list | grep ii | grep openoffice | cut -c5-35); do apt-get remove $i; done<br></br> remove all packages installed automatically apt-get autoremove install alien and convert the RPM’s from the archive apt-get install alien<br></br>tar xvfz /phantom/linux/OOo_2....

Contact link is now working again, thanks to Mark for point out to me that it was not working: Site error<br></br>This site encountered an error trying to fulfill your request. The errors <br></br>were:<br></br>Error Type<br></br> ValueError<br></br>Error Value<br></br> No next action found for contact-info.success.Plone Site.Send Metadata <br></br>actions: ZMI actions: <br></br>Request made at<br></br> 2007/06/20 00:07:14.132 GMT+3<br></br> the actions was missing the in the .metadata file [actions]<br></br>action.success=traverse_to:string:send_feedback_site<br></br>action.failure=traverse_to:string:contact-info

As I was sitting on a bench today in centre Athens waiting for the 8:30 meeting eager as usually to finish work thus ending up to early I could not notice the pattern of people going to work. It’s the flow of shirts, suits and ties which each morning go to their jobs. It’s the coffee can in all their hands which got my attention. Everywhere I went I have seen the same ritualistic behavior....

Sony Ericsson T630 phone sync After making the IR and bluetooth work on Feisty the next step was to sync all the contacts from my Sony Ericsson T630 phone. This was extremely easy as I was just required to install multisync: apt-get install multisync libmultisync-plugin-evolution libmultisync-plugin-backup libmultisync-plugin-irmc libmultisync-plugin-irmc-bluetooth and then create a backup synchronization pair: After synchronization all the contacts will be found as vcard files in the backup directory....

This is a complete example on how to use openssl to fetch a https page. The example is based on the several others I found on the web so my credit is minimal and only consist of modifying just a little the existing examples to compile and work with openssl-0.9.8e on Linux and Solaris. The example #include <openssl/ssl.h> #include <openssl/err.h> #include <openssl/bio.h> #include <iostream> #define MAX_PACKET_SIZE 10000 int main() { BIO * bio; SSL * ssl; SSL_CTX * ctx; /* Initializing OpenSSL */ SSL_load_error_strings(); ERR_load_BIO_strings(); OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms(); SSL_library_init(); //mandatory and missing from some examples ctx = SSL_CTX_new(SSLv23_client_method()); if (ctx == NULL) { std::cout << "Ctx is null" << std::endl; ERR_print_errors_fp(stderr); } //using a store from examples if(!...

This is the short procedure to install pidgin on Feisty. Install the required packages: apt-get install libglib2.0-dev<br></br>apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev (will install a lot of dependencies)<br></br>apt-get install libxml2-dev<br></br>#at this point pidgin it will compile<br></br>apt-get install libgnutls-dev (for ssl support for msn and google talk)<br></br>apt-get install libgstreamer0.10-dev (for gstreamer support)<br></br>apt-get install libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev<br></br>(for dbus support)<br></br>apt-get install libgtkspell-dev (for gtkspell support)<br></br> Download pidgin Compile pidgin tar xvfj pidgin-2.0.0.tar.bz2<br></br>cd pidgin-2.0.0/<br></br>./configure<br></br>make<br></br>su<br></br>make install<br></br> Run pidgin (will use the gaim settings if this was already installed)...

Romanian accentuated chars in Linux are not always something very simple to achieve. Here is a script which uses the windows key to obtain the accentuated chars: #!/bin/bash<br></br><br></br>xmodmap -e 'keycode 115 = Mode_switch'<br></br>xmodmap -e 'keycode 38 = a A abreve Abreve'<br></br>xmodmap -e 'keycode 39 = s S scedilla Scedilla'<br></br>xmodmap -e 'keycode 28 = t T tcedilla Tcedilla'<br></br>xmodmap -e 'keycode 31 = i I icircumflex Icircumflex'<br></br>xmodmap -e 'keycode 24 = q Q acircumflex Acircumflex'<br></br><br></br> The only “un-natural” combination is the windows key + q to obtain acircumflex....

One of the things I quickly found to be bothering me is the fact that there was an apparently long and unexplicable delay for all new network connections which resembled to a dns resolving. No reason for lengthy dns resolving though. So I did a strace: socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 4 fcntl64(4, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 connect(4, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/avahi-daemon/socket"}, 110) = 0 fcntl64(4, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFSOCK|0777, st_size=0, ....

My laptop has a strange fn + right arrow icon which could suggest an illuminated keyboard. Is this function now present on dell’s? Trying to activate it does not work but the strange thing is that I asked a question on the dell forums and one day after I received a mail that my post was inappropriate so it was removed. What does combination is supposed to do? I think it will remain a mystery for now....