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Use your iphone/ipod with linux via virtualbox

tini — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:04:01 +0000

Nice article @ krizka.net

edit: new solution located here

locale error

tini — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:45:42 +0000

If you’re here, then you had problem like this:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.

perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:

LANGUAGE = (unset),

LC_ALL = (unset),

LC_TIME = “hr_HR.UTF-8″,

LANG = “en_US.UTF-8″

are supported and installed on your system.

perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (“C”).

locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

user@computer:~$ /usr/bin/locale
/usr/bin/locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=”en_US.UTF-8″
LC_NUMERIC=”en_US.UTF-8″
LC_TIME=hr_HR.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=”en_US.UTF-8″
LC_MONETARY=”en_US.UTF-8″
LC_MESSAGES=”en_US.UTF-8″
LC_PAPER=”en_US.UTF-8″
LC_NAME=”en_US.UTF-8″
LC_ADDRESS=”en_US.UTF-8″
LC_TELEPHONE=”en_US.UTF-8″
LC_MEASUREMENT=”en_US.UTF-8″
LC_IDENTIFICATION=”en_US.UTF-8″
LC_ALL=

Solution is quite simple:

sudo /usr/sbin/locale-gen hr_HR.UTF-8
sudo /usr/sbin/update-locale LANG=hr_HR.UTF-8

Protect your files and folders on Ubuntu with encryption

tini — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:09:56 +0000

Actually, very simple.

aptitude install seahorse seahorse-plugins
killall nautilus

Run seahorse and generate your PGP key and next time when you run nautilus, you’ll have a new option when pressed right click on file or folder – Encrypt…

Get sound on HP ProBook 4510s Ubuntu Karmic amd64

tini — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:26:28 +0000

Recently I installed Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) and everything worked fine until I made first upgrade. since then I had no sound. Solution is quite simple.

Btw. I assume that U have mediubuntu repositories installed.

sudo aptitude install alsa-firmware alsa-firmware-loaders linux-backports-modules-alsa-karmic-generic linux-backports-modules-’uname-r’

Last step was to edit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and /etc/modules.

After restart, everything should be working fine.

Get your windows compatible camera to work on linux

tini — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:54:46 +0000

withc gspca – everything explained here

Howto save corrupted USB drive with filenames?

tini — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:42:56 +0000

check it out here -> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8366

Connect to your router/switch via USB to SERIAL cabel on linux

tini — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:24:46 +0000

user@computer# tail -f /var/log/messages

connect USB to SERIAL cable to your network device and to your computer. turn on network device, and locate port (mine is ttyUSB0)

—————-
[ 3201.770270] usb 7-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 3201.934529] usb 7-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 3202.360357] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
[ 3202.360391] USB Serial support registered for generic
[ 3202.360484] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
[ 3202.360491] usbserial: USB Serial Driver core
[ 3202.373747] USB Serial support registered for pl2303
[ 3202.373815] pl2303 7-1:1.0: pl2303 converter detected
[ 3202.385706] usb 7-1: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0
—————-

user@computer# aptitude install minicom
user@computer# sudo minicom -s

go to Serial port setup, press A and change Serial Device (in my case it’s /dev/ttyUSB0).
now, press E and change Bps/Par/Bits to 9600 8N1.
Choose Save setup as df1, and then Exit.

voila! you’re connected

for extra configuration, you can edit /etc/minicom/minicom.users or simply use man minicom.

10 powerful linux commands

tini — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:09:54 +0000

via digg.com @ laptoplogic.com

faster linux desktop…

tini — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:43:25 +0000

i got quite frustrated with kde4 and it’s bugs/memory overeating/crashing… so, i’ve decided to switch to lightweight xfce and optimize desktop machine a bit…

first, i did some tweaking as said here, then i managed startup programs with rcconf, improved my graphics as described here and finally found decent applications which helped me to forget about kde4

used before -> using now
kate -> geany
amarok -> exaile
firefox -> google chrome
kontact -> evolution
ktorrent -> transmission
konsole -> terminal
kwallet -> revelation
kopete -> empathy
krdc -> terminal server client

btw. if U think that xfce is ugly, make sure U visit xfce-look and deviantart – U will be amazed!

See what ports are open

tini — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:10:42 +0000

user@server:/# netstat -untap