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....

Making bluetooth work on my Dell Latitude D820 with my Sony Ericsson T630 phone was rather easy. I just needed to enable bluetooth in bios and then install the following packages: apt-get install bluetooth gnome-bluetooth apt-get install bluez-gnome bluez-utils After the install I started the bluetooth-applet. A bluetooth icon appeared in the notification area and I was able to add the laptop to my phone as a bluetooth friend and send a file from the phone to the laptop....

This is more of a fuss as I wanted to connect to my Sony Ericsson T630 phone over infrared, hopefully at some point I will be able to use it’s modem for GPRS access. Activate the ir (COM2 – /dev/ttyS1) in bios Install the irda-utils and openobex packages apt-get install irda-utils obexfs obexftp openobex-apps Load the needed kernel modules modprobe irda modprobe ircomm modprobe ircomm-tty modproble irtty-sir edit /etc/modules and add...

Here are the steps I used to install needed applications and migrate data from my old laptop to the new one after the previous install of ubuntu feisty fawn on a D820. Mozilla Just copied the .mozilla directory from my old Dell Inspiron 8600. This includes all configuration, bookmarks, saved passwords and installed plugins (local installations). It does not apply to system wide plugins. Skype For skype I had to download the ....

The arrival of my new Dell D820 was not something which could be shadowed by the fact that I am sick with chickenpox for the last few days. So, almost in a good mood I decided to install the new Ubuntu Feisty Fawn which I downloaded in preparation a few days ago. The system DELL Latitude D820 with Intel Core 2 Duo at 2GHz, 2GB RAM, 100 GB HDD, 1680×1050 screen, nVidia GeForce Go 7400....

By default koha (2.2.5) does not implement Z3950 search based on data entered in the ISSN field in the import MARC page. This is a simple way of adding this functionality: Here is the list of data parameters transfers: the PopupZ3950() javascript function calls the search.pl with parameters the intranet/cgi-bin/z3950/search.pl function takes the parameters and uses the intranet/modules/C4/Z3950.pm module to store a search in the database the intranet/scripts/processZ3950queue daemon monitors the database and performs the actual search....

As many other times, I am faced a deadline. Putting together various stuff, testing, making order into a big mess to create a line of work. This is an analysis deadline, must try, must test, must evaluate, must decide upon the way to go, must write down all decisions in the form of a technical specification. It’s nothing clear, using components which won’t work, using code which won’t compile but finally a decision must be taken....

How come? As I am currently evaluating a Digital Signage project which makes heavy usage of Flash movies I decided to re-evaluate this technology. Until now I was rather reticent for the following reasons: it is proprietary and does not have any free development tools and (most disturbing) it requires Windows. However today while browsing the Adobe site I found out some rather cool things. There is a product called flex which allows to freely develop flash applications on Linux....