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- LampKontroll v0.1 done! (2010/05/13 23:29)
It's not pretty codewise, and it could use some ajax, but at least the iWebkit makes it look ok and it's functional. And it works on both iPhone and ofcourse android and other browsers as well :-) - What's up with Google? (2010/05/09 23:29)
I'm quite dissapointed with Googles way to handle a widely spread bug in their services that affects alot of users over different platforms.
The issue is that somehow some Google Apps accounts get's locked out of signing on against google talk (with "out of browser" clients). This in some weird way also prohibits one from downloading apps from the Market on Android-powered mobile phones and maybe more.
As it seems most people reporting this problem got it around May 3 to 6 (I had my problems starting at 2010-05-06).
The largest thread on the subject (started by a Google Employee, but without follow up for many days now) is here:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=57b5e3efa7477b50&hl=en
... and there are many alike...
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Talk/thread?tid=1528c8fb795819ff&hl=en
I hope this gets resolved soon.
Uppdate 2010-05-12: It's fixed! My final posting to the Help forums follow:
"All my problems are solved! My problems where: - gtalk on android
(native+meebo) and 3rd party clients from linux/windows (via xmpp) and the
official gtalk client for windows not signing in due to SASL auth failed
(not authorized/signin looping forever) - gmail in phone not beeing
automatically refreshed (no new mail pops in, but a manual refresh was
needed) - downloading didn't work in Android Market, hanging on
downloading... - Market download, and sign in to gtalk now works on all
clients. Thank's for fixing the problem google! And shame on you for not
releasing a official update on the progress of this issue. That would have
helped alot of people from alot of trouble. Bye!" - Berlin 2010 (2010/04/12 22:38)I've uploaded our photos from our trip to Berlin.
Accessible by friends and family. Let me know if you wan't a guest pass.
For you others I can only use this as a way to promote flickr.com and a visit to Berlin! - Twitterfeed och "länkad automatisk publicering"... (2010/03/14 11:47)Jag har en tjänst som heter Twitterfeed som automatiskt uppdaterar min Twitterfeed när det finns nya inlägg att läsa på mina bloggar.Twitterfeed kan även skicka inlägg till Facebook och andra microbloggar än Twitter.Det finns en uppsjö av olika sätt att integrera Facebook, bloggar, google tjänster och Twitter. Men det känns som man måste tänka till ordentligt innan man knyter ihop allt. Så man inte lyckas med en "inläggsloop".Idag har jag dessa kopplingar:[Twitterfeed]: Inlägg i mina blogspot bloggar övervakas av twitterfeed.com och postas till twitter.[Twitter]: Inlägg på twitter som innehåller taggen #fb postas i min logg på Facebook. Jag uppdaterar hur när jag minns vart jag skapat denna... :-/[Simplaris blogcast]: En facebookapplikation övervakar min huvudblog och visar denna i en ruta på min profilsida.[zuPort Flickr]: En facebookapplikation övervakar min Flickr fotoström och uppdaterar en ruta på min profil med nya bilder. Det går även att publicera som en nyhet, men jag har stängt av det då jag ibland lägger upp väldigt mycket bilder och vill ha kontroll över vad jag lägger till.[Google Buzz]: Övervakar mina blogspot bloggar, Twitter, Flickr, Picasa och Youtube. Varning för dubbelposts med tanke på att inlägg från mina bloggar hamnar i Twitter :-/ . Jag har också valt att inte lista mina "followers" mailadresser. Det har varit lite uppståndelse angående denna funktion. Jag förstår varför. Jag gillar dock att Google satsar på att knyta ihop påsen...[Google profil]: Länkar till Buzz och allt dess innehåll, mina bloggar och min hemsida... Visste inte att jag hade en innan detta inläg. Tydligen introducerat i och med Buzz. Jag har valt att inte publicera min profil. Ni hittar nog den endå.[Dokuwiki]: Via RSS-syndication (simpleRSS-baserad) så integrerar jag inlägg ifrån mina bloggar så de blir som inbäddade i min hemsida.Det kommer säkerligen bli mer och fler... Man väljer hur man själv vill ha det.Jag vill att mina publiceringar skall passa mig i formatet och nå ut till de som är intresserade.Jag postar oftast manuella twitterinlägg via min Android mobil (HTC Hero) och applikationen Tweetcaster. För bloggarna testar jag Blogaway, som verkar väldigt lovande. Men eftersom blogg-inläggen ofta blir lite väl långa för att skriva i mobilen så blir det mest publiceringar via en browser.Jag tar gärna emot tips på andra smarta integrationer!
- D-Zone on Nokia E71 (2009/06/28 18:35)
I have added a video on my attempt of running D-Zone (Destruction Zone, one of the best multiplayer games ever made) on my Nokia E71.
Official website of the game: http://www.digitalscores.com/dzone/
- Ett snyggt verktyg att verifiera sin DNS med! (2009/04/11 00:05)
- Kommande filmer att se på bio (2009/02/17 19:26)1 maj: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
8 maj: Star Trek
29 maj: Terminator Salvation
5 juni: Underworld: The Rise of the Lycans
26 juni: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
10 juli: Ice Age III: Det våras för dinosaurierna
Dessa kanske Vi går på... =) Vill Du/Ni följa med? - Testing Shozu on the E71 (2009/02/04 08:52)Shozu is an online service that helps you post text and upload pictures and videos online. I've configured the ones I use. Flickr, Google blogger, Picasa, twitter and via email to Evernote. It supports many different mobile phones. I use the Nokia E71, which although it has uploadingfeatures built-in - it cannot upload to all theese services. And Shozu can send one upload to multiple online services. http://www.shozu.com
My home network
- Ubuntu Timemachine-server for Snow Leopard (2010/08/29 18:50)I got Timemachine to work against my Ubuntu fileserver using this guide.
And here's a swedish article that seems to apply.
That one also includes a script for making the sparse file.
I haven't tried any restores yet as the initial full-backup is still in progress.
Maybe I'll post an update about it. - Restore dar easily in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, or not? (2010/06/09 23:11)Update 1: I got the dapper version of kdar to work. I never tried it because I didn't think it would work. But the packages installed without any trouble and works just as good as in Ubuntu 9.10.
Update 2: I also tried pybackpack that is a nice gui
for manual backups using rdiff-backup. Rdiff-backup can do remote backup using ssh but needs rdiff-backup installed on both client and server. It's somewhat similar to rsync in that aspect. Pybackpack I had to pull from the SVN repos, since the packages that exist had major bugs relating to gui-changes causing it to be broken. Pybackpack project site: http://projects.sucs.org/projects/pybackpack/
Update 3: Using archfs on my backupserver I can get the backup-images fuse-mounted and have direct file access to all previously backed file-versions. There are two views that one can mount using options. One show each file as a directory containg all versions of that file with a date+timestamp, and there is the default view that shows date+timestamps as directorys in the root of the mountpoint and below the directorystructure as it where for that specific backup. Since my backup-server is a Debian Lenny I had to pull the archfs-package from the unstable repository (I changed the /etc/apt/sources.list to include an unstable-source during the install, and then removed it).
I never tried sbackup since it doesn't match my needs.
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Ok so it seems I might have been praised the use of dar alittle to soon in my previous post. Well at least the use of kdar as of now. I'm having trouble getting it to run on Ubuntu 10.04.
And all that my major research-crawling gives me is Dargui, (gnome/gtk gui) that also won't work (yet) in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
And I also found a whole other concept: rdiff-backup with archfs.
I will probably end up extracting my dar-archive completely or zip it or something (i only want to archive this backup set of my old laptop-installation of 9.10). And then I will try archfs for incremental backups of my current setup.
I will post a follow up on this when I have it done.
And yeah, if you only want to backup a few files easily there should be an option in Ubuntu 10.04... I think it's called sbackup. There also some backintime project and dejadup that I haveto look in to.
To be continued... - Backup Linux-system using DAR (2010/06/06 19:10)You gotta love dar!Do yourself a favour and hit a "apt-get install dar kdar; man dar", and engulf yourself in it's possibilities. Or just take a glipmse at the features here.And if you are like me, and just want the job done, take a look at kdar (a gui).I just finished a kdar-backup of my laptop, ran from a script created with kdar with some additions (removal of -p option and addition of --exclude-file option).dar -v -c "/media/externaldrive/dar/d420.u910.root.100606" -R "/" -s 734003200 -D -y -m 150 -Z "*.avi" -Z "*.bz2" -Z "*.deb" -Z "*.gif" -Z "*.gz" -Z "*.iso" -Z "*.jpg" -Z "*.mov" -Z "*.mpg" -Z "*.pbm" -Z "*.pdf" -Z "*.png" -Z "*.pnm" -Z "*.Z" -Z "*.zip" -P "media/externaldrive/dar" -P "dev" -P "dev/pts" -P "dev/shm" -P "lib/init/rw" -P "media" -P "mnt" -P "proc" -P "sys" -P "tmp" -P "var/lock" -P "var/run" -P "var/tmp" --exclude-file=excludefilesPretty basic right? =)And look at this beauty of summary generated when finished:
361049 inode(s) saved
with 421 hard link(s) recorded
0 inode(s) changed at the moment of the backup
0 inode(s) not saved (no inode/file change)
1 inode(s) failed to save (filesystem error)
10 inode(s) ignored (excluded by filters)
0 inode(s) recorded as deleted from reference backup
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Total number of inodes considered: 361060
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EA saved for 0 inode(s)
--------------------------------------------I'm planning to use a script like this one generating an excludefile to exclude all package-installed files:
#!/bin/bash
COLUMNS=185 dpkg -l|awk '/^ii/{ print $2 }'|xargs -l dpkg -L|sort -u > dpkg-files - A little of everything! (2010/03/10 08:44)It's been some time since my latest update on what I'm doing on my network.So even though I'm short on time, here's a little update.Tried to upgrade my mediaserver virtual machine from Ubuntu 8.04 to 9.10 (thru every version).That failed with a GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB [...] screen and I really didn't feel like having such a server beeing as dirty from upgrades. With the reason for the upgrade beeing that my mythtv backend needed to be upgraded to support the mythtv packed in Ubuntu 9.10 which I have on my laptops. Basicly what I learned from this is that installing a new Ubuntu (in a vm at least) instead of doing dist-upgrades saves you from a lot of trouble and extra tinkering.The server is now running after a couple of days of configuration.Mythtvbackend, Mysql-server (for mythtv), Mythweb, vnc4server+wine+vibestreamer, Digikam, Samba, Telldus stick (will update on this at a later moment)...Also on the todo is:- Changing NIC to a newly bought external E1000 (workaround for messy onboard marvel chipset... more on this later...).- Setting up mythtv-frontend on the KVM host. Since the PCI-sharing doesn't work on KVM, yet, the hosting partition will have to run the graphicscard and the tv-card, also forcing a mythtv-backend =( . However I will try this, and also remove all the "power off" hooks from mythtv-frontend and maybe gnome itself...- For the mythtv-frontend and Telldus stick I have bought a USB-IR-remote that I will use to program my Logitech Harmony. Probably this will be very much ugly hacks, using lirc or other hid-input-device eventhandler hacks.- Making the server run more quiet... Just now I bought a Noctua CPU-cooler that I will mount tomorrow hopefully and then theres harddrives, dampening and lastly possibly fanless PSU... Currently looking at the Thermaltake 350.Until next time... Please comment! I don't really know if anyone reads this... DO IT! :-D
- VMWare Server 2.0, Windows XP Guest on Ubuntu Linux and HTC Hero Sync... (2009/09/20 03:11)I'm trying to get my HTC Hero to properly connect to a virtual Windows XP machine running as a guest OS on my Ubuntu laptop. So far I've tried VirtualBox, which managed the USB mass-storage mode, but not the sync mode. I'm now trying out VMWare Server 2.0. The converting of images are eating up my diskspace. If this doesn't work, I'll have to fix my virtual hardware mismatch I've managed to put myself in, doing a unattended PXE-boot:ed install in VirtualBox, probably with some settings to strictly set.
Longshot? - Compiling Xen Linux-kernel - Ubuntu Intrepid (2009/07/12 00:33)
I need to compile a 2.6.27 xen-kernel to upgrade because I have problems getting nfsv4 to work on my current setup. I am following this guide.
I'm writing this because I had problems when compiling. I got an error on the common_64.o. I didn't find anything when searching this error. So I was grateful when I found this post, that led me past the error. In this post the option CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION=y is mentioned. And when I activate that option in menuconfig, I can continue compiling.
update 090712: I managed to compile the kernel. I also found a post explaining that my problem booting a standard Ubuntu-kernel in a domU shouldn't exist. This led me to do another search for reasons why my domU wouldn't boot. And as I found out, ofcourse, my only problem is that I don't get any console (as in xvc0.., xm console). I haven't sorted that out yet. I will update when I do. The updated kernel, a 2.6.27-14-server from ubuntu repos., made my nfs-problems disappear. =) \o/ I will now proceed with getting nfs4 and with auth against Zeroshell krb5 working. - Get more free disk space! (2009/06/07 14:22)It seems that the days when you needed to keep you computer clean and tidy are gone. With the operatingsystems only require a few percent of your harddrive this might be less of a problem. But my experience is that it still fills up and you may lose focus from the "system-near" files and
only try to clean up your other data (like larger mediafiles or old backups).
I most recently used this tool when my Windows-partition on my work-laptop.
jDiskReport - Cross platform using java (Mac/Windows/Linux)
There are many similar tools for both Windows and Linux. jDiskReport is the best free one I've found.
In Ubuntu you can install a gnome tool but I don't remember the name of the package right now. I will update this when I do. For KDE there is Filelight. But I haven't tried it yet.
This Google-page has a summary of a bunch. - Using digikam in hardy to convert Canon G10 CR2 RAW photos to jpeg. (2009/06/06 18:06)I found myself in a bit of a dilemma again because I'm still running Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) on my server. In the long run I will probably migrate my Xen-machines to running on KVM in line with Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04. But for now that's another project.
I have a Digikam installation on a Ubuntu Hardy that runs quite well. My problem recently arose when I tried to convert RAW images with the built in rawconverter (residing in the kipi-plugins package). I also tried using plainly dcraw wich is the utility that the rawconverter plugin is based on. Both of them returns an image that has a yellow tint. Diggin further I have come to the conclusion that new support for my camera is added in dcraw 8.89 and therefor I'm trying to build my own updated support for this into Digikam so that I can convert theese images until I decide to upgrade to the latest stable Ubuntu, Jaunty (9.04) or later.
I have succeded in compiling kipi-plugins and required packages that didn't already exist or needed update. The problem now is that it seems like i need to upgrade Digikam too because it crashes using the new kipi-plugins.
My conclusion now is that I am probably better off trying to get that machine upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty.
Stuff I've recently bought
Swedish only, sorry!
- Macbook Pro 13" 2.4Ghz (2010/08/27 23:42)
- Denon AH-C360 (2010/08/26 08:47)In-ear hörlurar med bra betyg på prisjakt.se.
Denon AH-C360
Underbar kvalité från första ögonkastet. Ja på förpackningen alltså.
Härligt mattsvart med tekniskt formad plast och kartong inuti som man får
veckla isär lager efter lager.
De sitter bekvämt i örat. Mycket tätslutande.
Flera gummimuffar och ett hårt fodral medföljer.
Kanalerna i sladden är separat isolerade, ihopetsade i en "parkabel",
både i skarvsladden och sista biten innan delningen mellan höger/vänster lur.
De har ingen nackslinga, utan båda lurarnas sladdar är lika långa.
Ljudet är i toppklass. Jag har dock endast testat spotify i min HTC Hero.
När lurarna sitter i bra (typ direkt) så finns där djupa bastoner och vass diskant och en skön klarhet därimellan.
Saknar en eq i HTC Desire för vissa låtar som på hög volym blir för vasst för mina öron.
Men det är ju inget som skall påverka omdömet utav dessa lurar.
Det kommer väl en liten update när jag testat lite fler spelare, men jag är fortfarande grymt nöjd.
Hade Sony MDR-xxxx innan och även om de är schyssta så har de inte samma passform som dessa. - HTC Desire (2010/05/09 21:27)
Jag vart bara tvungen att köpa denna. Den har allt det goda hos min tidigare HTC Hero, minus allt det onda. Och visst, säkert någon bugg här eller där. Men än så länge stabil. Sugen på en IPhone nu? Nej tack! Inte när denna kan spela musik i Spotify samtidigt som inbyggda musikspelaren spelar något annat. Beatmixing någon? =) Det jag saknar litegran är IPhones härliga touchskärm. Men denna är tillräckligt bra. - Noctua CPU-Kylare NH-U12P SE2 (2010/03/10 08:30)Sådär, nu ska det väl bli en lite tystare server i vardagsrummet.... ?Mycket pengar för en fläkt, men sen är den i världsklass och kan användas med flera CPU.Och förhoppningsvis kan jag till och med köra utan fläktar och kyla CPU helt passivt, med endast en chassifläkt. Detta återstår att prova sig fram till...Det stod mellan denna, systermodellen Noctua NH-C12 och Schythe Ninja II Rev B. Men de fläktarna har inte fått i närheten lika bra rykte som Noctua:s.Det som är lite osäkert än så länge är ju om den får plats mellan moderkort och PSU. Det ska vara 25mm därimellan. Vilket jag inte uppmätt ännu...Nästa steg i "tystare server"-resan blir följande:- Hänga upp hårddiskarna i gummiband (svårt med ont om plats då jag har 3 st idag... men det ska nog kunna gå) Plan B blir nya hårddiskar 2st stora 1-1.5TB Helst tystare... för att ersätta 3st 300G...- Köpa nytt PSU. Fläktlöst! Thermaltake 350 verkar lovande. Smart lösning med heatpipe-bestyckade kylflänsar utanför chassit. Så slipper man fläkta ut värmen eller behålla den i PSU/chassi.
- Logitech Driving Force Wireless™ (2009/09/08 20:01)Logitech Driving Force Wireless™
599:- GameStop (fd. EB Games) i Fältöversten.
Jag har ju aldrig haft någon force feedback-ratt... Nu var jag tvungen. Hade kikat på den där den stod helt ensam i tvspelsaffären. Billig var den också... I jämförelse med andra rattar och vad man får för pengarna... Eller jämför t ex denna med att köpa en ps3-joypad för ~500-700kr.
Jag har inte hunnit testa den fullt ut ännu.. Men jag kan ju säga att man behöver "övningsköra" lite. Åtminstone i Ferrari Challange.
Återkommer med lite mer info när jag testat fler spel.
Testade: Ferrari Challange (***---), GTA IV (N/A)... - Raynox DCR1540 PRO for my Canon G10 (2009/07/12 02:06)
I bought this Teleconverter lens for my Canon Powershot G10.
It looks awsome mounted on the cam. With all the adapter rings I think it looks like a small Digital SLR. Too bad I haveto look for a external flash now since it's so big the internal flash gets obstructed. ;-)
Here's a (crappy) picture of it mounted. - Super Card DSONEi (2009/06/02 19:46)
Idag anlände mitt DS ONEi... =)
http://eng.supercard.sc/manual/dsonei/jsh.html
Mitt Acekard 2i funkar fint, men detta är mer framtidssäkert...
- Nintendo DSi (2009/05/22 00:45)
Råkade köpa en NDSi.
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