Finally K-Cineplex got a new web site design. It was very annoying to watch every time stupid flash intro. But the link to skip it was placed inside the flash. So, in any case you should wait for the its loading. The new design looks a bit unusual (for sure, it’s a new) but professionally. It isn’t fully web 2.0 but very near. P. S. […]
Accessing the Nokia N800 camera
Linux-based Internet Tablet Nokia N800 is very popular. Even coming N810 is not going to replace it completely (I’m not talking about windows-based Origami). Using Maemo SDK it’s fairly simple develop new applications or porting existing ones. For sure to be success you need a right documentation. Following article from IBM.com explains obviously how to use N800 camera API. P. S. The easiest way IMHO […]
Upgrade Kubuntu from 7.04 to 7.10
Since a coming version of LinuxMCE will be based on Kubuntu 7.10 I started thinking about upgrade my home PC. I found this manual explained how to do an upgrade using a package manager. I played a bit with Kubuntu installed under VMware and couldn’t upgrade successful. Adopt manager crashed every time when the text of agreements should be displayed. GNOM update manager didn’t detect […]
Proxy definition for APT
Recently when I started to upgrade Kubuntu from 7.04 to 7.10 using Adopt manager I faced with problem. It doesn’t get proxy setting from the system. To solve that a following line should be added into file /etc/apt/apt.conf (you have to create it if it doesn’t exist): Acquire::http::Proxy “http://user:password@proxy_URL:proxy_Port”; User name and password can be omitted if you don’t use them.
Meet Werewolf
Today I upgraded my work PC up to Fedora 8 (Werewolf). Unlike previous upgrades I tried to use yum. I run the procedure according to Upgrading Fedora Using Yum. It took about 3 – 4 hours and finished successfully. After rebooting I just install a plug-in to listen MP3 yum update alsa-plugins-pulseaudio and patched VMWave to build vmnet on post 2.6.23 kernels. That’s it! Enjoying […]
Printing from RedHat 9 to Xerox Workcenter M123
Today I spent some time to setup Xerox Workcenter M123 in the RedHat 9. The difficulty was in the cups version. There is an old one which doesn’t allow to pick up PPD file during configuration. So, everything I did manually. But printer didn’t print test page. It just waited a few seconds and skipped it. I specified a log level as debug and found […]
Moving to WordPress 2.3.1
Today I moved my blog to the latest version of WordPress 2.3.1. I was afraid a bit to do that immediately right after release. Because the 2.3.1 includes a native support of tags. But I, as many other bloggers, used plug-in “Ultimate Tag Warrior”. So, I’d like to have some tool to import them. I red that post written by Leonid Mamchenkov and decided to […]
GMail 2.0 rumors
Today I read in THG.ru about coming version of GMail. It should be much faster, will have advanced contact manager and will be integrated with Picasa. The target of GMail development team is 70% successful users which is a big number for completely free service. IMHO good advantage of GMail might be adding of Google Gears to offer off-line mode.