TEST

Y-worked without any modification M-requires modification N-did not work at all L-limited

Ubuntu 8.04 ***Kernel-2.6.24-19-Generic SMP

KB L(1)
Mouse(TPad) Y
XFree86 Y
Sound Y
HDD Y
DVD/CD L(2)
DVD-RW/CD-RW L(2)
SDC Y(3)
IEEE1394 Not Tested
USB Y
USB CDROM Not Tested
USB FDD Not Tested
USB Mouse Y
LAN M (7)
W-LAN Y(4)
Bluetooth M(5)
Shutdown Y
Reboot Y
ACPI Y ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
Suspend Y(6)
Hibernation Y(6)

1) Keyboard:Not all function keys works, the most important ones do like lcd brightness, sound and the disable trackpad one
2) DVD-RW: Works but I have a really bad performance. It could be the same thing that affects my desktop and is a pretty common thing on intel chipset
3) Card Reader: Works with SDHC (High Capacity), tested on microSDHC 4GB (with adapter)
4) W-LAN: Toshiba suggests not needed modifications, for me it worked out of the box
5) Bluetooth ref: Ubuntu Forums
On toshibas bluetooth is switched off by default on boot. It can be switched on by an acpi call that is pretty easy to make in windows ( press a button ) but not in linux , omnibook make things much easier. First you will need some packages to grab the source from svn and to compile it.

$ sudo apt-get install subversion build-essential linux-source linux-headers-generic
Then you can check the svn source and compile
$ cd ~
$ mkdir omnibook
$ cd omnibook
$ svn co https://omnibook.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/omnibook/omnibook/trunk
$ cd trunk
$ make
$ sudo make install


The A300 is not directly supported by omnibook module so we have to force it with proper options

$ sudo depmod -a
$ sudo modprobe omnibook ectype=12

after this bluetooth should work, if you want to load the module on boot make a file called omnibook.modprobe in /etc/modprobe.d/ with the following line:
options omnibook ectype=12 userset=1

and then you can finally add “omnibook” in /etc/modules

There’s a bug in Ubuntu that make you unable to receive files ( toshiba side is all working, the bug is in the bluez-utils package) , downgrading is a solution

6) Suspend/Hibernation: I had problem with the xorg drivers. After installing Ati Binary drivers it worked liked a charm , I’m very happy for this.Edit: after waking up from hibernation the bluetooth system is disabled for some reasons. “echo 1>/proc/omnibook/bluetooth” will do the job.

7 Wired Lan:
rmmod sky2
cd /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/kernel/drivers/net
cp -p sky2.ko{,.orig}
perl -pe 's/\0\0\x6c\x43/\0\0\x55\x43/g' sky2.ko.orig > sky2.ko
Note

I feel that with the newer bios ( 14/07 ) things work better, the fan is less noisy for example

Links

• Linux Information for Toshiba
• Some linux toshiba utilities (you probably wont need these)

My superkaramba monitor is based on the dual cpu monitor by Loacoon, I changed it a little to show some useful stuff , some of them gentoo specific ( last sync, last emerges, currently emerging….. genlop is a dependency).

Here’s the code, on my system superkaramba themes are in ~/.kde3.5/share/apps/superkaramba/themes/

Superkaramba theme

I had two big problems, I couldn’t hibernate/suspend and I couldn’t switch to the ttys with Alt+F1 for example.

Starting from the latter I realized that the nvidia-glx package instead of the nvidia-glx-new does the job. Since I don’t know the difference between the two packages and I really don’t care to have the newest nvidia driver I consider this problem fixed.

Now suspend works and not sometimes or just one time like it used in the past, I had to change some config options in /etc/default/acpi-support

SAVE_VBE_STATE=false
POST_VIDEO=false
SAVE_VIDEO_PCI_STATE=true

Hiberating is still a problem or better waking up from hibernation is a huge deal on my laptop. It does hibernate and it tries to wake up during next boot but when X starts everything freeze. It seems a kernel or xorg problem because I can’t turn on/off the capslock led. Here’s the bug I’ve filled, hopefully someoene will look at it.

Inizio col dire che è stata più lunga del previsto.

Ho una vecchia copia di windows xp sp1 che non ha al suo interno i driver per il controller sata della mia scheda madre (ICH9) e allora ho dovuto scaricarmeli dal sito della Asus. Dopo averlo fatto mi sono ricordato di quel famoso pulsante F6 da premere in fase di installazione di windows per poter caricare driver di terze parti, subito dopo un flash: “Ma serve il floppy??????”. Già…..

E dove lo prendo un dischetto? Ho varie chiavette, da 128 MB a 8GB, ma di dischetti pochi o nulla…ma uno si,che non va. “Ravana ravana” ho trovato in un angolo di una libreria una vecchia confezione di Verbatim con scritto “Gia Formattati!!” Wow

Copiati i driver sul dischetto e riavviato facendo il boot da cd di windows mi trovo schermata nera, solo una piccola scritta “Rilevazione Hardware” in corso e poi nero completo e cd fermo che non legge.Sia il cd? Cambiati 3 cd e stesso problema.

Ho poi scoperto che se l’installer di Microsoft trova sugli harddisk più di una partizione con la flag “bootable” esce senza avvisare lasciandoti li come un pirla con la schermata nera. Ho risolto scollegando gli altri due harddisk in raid (quando ho fatto il raid forse ho creato anche il danno), un altra soluzione con “parted” era di togliere le flag bootable o lasciarne al massimo una.

In compenso però ora mi ha avvisato che cambierà la risoluzione dello schermo….ma vedi di andare a ….

• Media Server: it serves the content on the network
• Media Renderer: it renders the content served by a media server

So I actually needed both on my gentoo linux.

Probably the easiest way to browse content served by upnp servers is djmount , it works as a FUSE file system ( that can be mounted by a normal user) and it looks for all the upnp devices in a network. It works very well even with content provided by Windows Vista (or better from the Media Player that comes with windows vista). You create a directory and simply “djmount it”, in that directory there will be other subdirectories , one for each media server you have in your network.

Easy and working but not that cool, I mean…all this new stuff and , in the end, I still have to browse directories. I’m not using these new things just because I don’t want to plug in an usb cable, I’m not that lazy. So I went searching in various forums another solution.

My first choice as media server was ushare, somehow connected to the geexbox project but it had its limitation, one above all that it doesn’t read tags, so when you copy a music file to another device you must retag it manually. Another problem was the init script that didn’t work that well and I didn’t have time/will to fix it. Mediatomb seems the definitive choice to me, it seems a nice project, it reads metadata and has a built in sqlite backend. (you can use mysql too but i don’t have the server on my box). Mediatomb has a webserver you can connect to and you can add/delete content to your share and chose how to rescan your library , you can chose inotify on that ( if you are using beagle you should already have inotify in your kernel).

When it goes to the Media Renderer it seems that there is not much choice yet, but there is some and in particular there is gmediarenderer from the GNU guys. GmediaRender , as the names says, it’s able to render content served from a MediaServer, it needs gstreamer as a backend for all the codecs (it actually uses gstreamer to render the stream ). If you have gmediarender running you can simply go to your nokia N95 media player , chose a song and in options chose “execute on personal network” ( or something like that) and your computer (not the phone) will sound. You can do the same for videos or pictures.

What about coherence? I have it installed and the rhythmbox plugins actually works , I can see my N95 and browse its contents but you can’t (yet) make rhythmbox work as a MediaRenderer. Coherence is supposed to be a full UPNP solution with its server, renderer and controller but the people who develop it are very good in making Youtube videos but not that good to explain the world “how the hell that damn thing works”.

What is missing? On my nokia I can chose to copy or move stuff to my personal network, I can’t do it and don’t know what part of this upnp mess should provide this feature.


#! /bin/sh
USER=user ## mldonkey user
PASS=pass ## mldonkey password for user
HOST=192.168.1.2 ## host where mldonkey is running
PORT=4000 ##port
(echo "auth $USER $PASS";echo $1;echo q) | nc $HOST $PORT

and then for conkyrc

${execi 50 ml_command bw_stats|grep Down|awk -F " " '{print $1,$2,$3,$10,$11,$12}'}


Emerald Theme
MurrinaDBO

ScheduleWorld Side

After signing up and logging in there are a few things that must be changed in the scheduleworld configuration page.

• General Preferences for: as it says those are just general preferences , they have nothing to do with the syncing procedures,can be left as they are
• GMail Contact Synchronization: would be handy but gmail sucks under this point. Gmail remembers automatically every address you have sent an email to and this means that after a while you will find a lot of guys called “unsubscribe” on your phone contacts, this is the part that sucks.I don’t use this feature.
• Standard SyncML Client Configuration: these are the configuration options we will use on the Nokia, all Nokia N series comes with syncML compliant client and we will use it.
• Funambol SyncML Client Configuration: if the application/device you want to sync doesn’t come with a syncML compliant client there is a possibility that you can install some funambol components to make it work and sync properly with scheduleworld.(for iPod , Windows Mobile, Outlook, theres should be something for BlackBerries too)
• Evolution SyncML Configuration (SyncEvolution): for the evolution office suite ( if you don’t know what it is don’t bother).I use Gnome but I when I’m not home I must use windows,so I prefer crossplatform applications like the ones from Mozilla.

There are other configuration option at the bottom of the boxes (its actually another wider box in pink and purple colors). If you want to sync with google calendar the configuration options with a pink background are the ones that matter the most.(those ones that come after “To manually sync with your specific Google Calendar click ‘Google Sync’ at the top of the day view. “).

• Authorization: most of people should click on “Single User/AuthStub”, if you use google apps for your domain then you should click on “Hosted Domain/Client Login”.After that your browser will fire up a google page that asks you if you want to grant permission to scheduleworld.com, you should answear yes.
• Corresponding Google Calendar Username (email): your google login
• Google Calendar Title:click “Find” and chose the calendar you wish to sync with.
• Other options: the defaults are ok, maybe you want the “Automatically sync with this Google Calendar with every SyncML sync” set to “yes” so that every time you sync with scheduleworld you get synced to google calendar automatically.

Nokia Side

The syncML client by Nokia is called “Syncronization” and it should be under “Utilities” (my N95 is in Italian).Options->NewProfile.

• Profile Name: Anything you want
• Applications:we will sync Contacts and Calendar, click on Contacts: Include:yes ; Database: card ; Direction:both; go back.Click on Calendar: Include:yes ; Database: cal ; Direction:both. Pay attention: Contacts database is “card”, Calendar database is “cal”.
• Connection: these info are on the scheduleworld configuration page in the “Standard SyncML Client Configuration” box. Put the server url in the “host address”, do the same for username and password.

Now go back with your phone to the syncronization page and click on the new created profile to sync your phone to Scheduleworld and to Google Calendar with it.

Thunderbird Side

You can find Scheduleworld extension for thunderbird here, right click save, fireup thunderbird and under Tools->Add-Ons click on install and select the extension, restart thunderbird. Upon restarting a wizard should show up guiding you to the configuration options,as usual you can find these infos on the scheduleworld configuration page.After Username and Password you are asked what contacts you want to sync, Personal Address Book are the contacts you created , Collected Address Book are the contacts you know cause you sent or they ahve sent something to you.Next is the Calendars to Syncronize, put a mark on “Sync” and chose the calendar to sync, keep going and reading till you finish.Now aunder tools->SyncSW to sync.

Tip for Gnome Users

Gnome has a clock applet that if you click on it it shows you a calendar , that calendar is connected to evolution and it will show in glance all your appointments,pretty handy feature. If you don’t want to use evolution there’s a solution here

Requisiti:
poter compilare , alsa e bluetooth gia testati e funzionanti , detto questo per gentoo dovrebbe solo servire il cvs , per ubuntu invece

• build-essential
• libbluetooth2-dev (3.5 or newer)
• automake
• autoconf
• cvs
• libtool
• libasound2-dev
• libdbus-1-dev
• libdbus-glib-1-dev

Io sono su gentoo e sono riuscito a far andare il tutto con bluez-utils>=3.16, la guida originale è per ubuntu

Per prima cosa bisogna installare un paio di cose da cvs, in particolare libsbc e plugz da sourceforge. Note: se viene chiesta la password schiacciate invio senza digitare nulla, i comandi sono da utente , sudo significa da superutente,se non si usa sudo allora passate al root con “su” + password, poi “exit” per tornare all’utente.

Ora creiamo un file così da non far uscire con un errore il cvs
touch ~/.cvspass
Ora spostatevi in una cartella comoda in cui l’utente ha diritto di scrittura ,una qualsiasi …
Installazione di libsbc:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@sbc.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/sbc login
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@sbc.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/sbc co sbc
cd sbc
./bootstrap
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
cd ..

Installazione di plugz:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@bluetooth-alsa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bluetooth-alsa login
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@bluetooth-alsa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bluetooth-alsa co plugz
cd plugz
./bootstrap
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
make
sudo make install

Dato che ho delle cuffie senza microfono userò il driver per alsa a2dp che è a senso unico ( dal computer alle cuffie e non viceversa ).

Per prima cosa bisogna far si che che il computer si possa connettere alle cuffie via bluetooth, la password di default delle cuffie in genere è 0000, quindi basta lanciare questo comando:
passkey-agent --default 0000 e lasciate aperta questa finestra fino alla fine.

Ora (da un altro terminale) dobbiamo collegare il computer alle cuffie ( metterli in pair ) . Con le cuffie della motorola è abbastanza semplice, sulle cuffie ci sono due grossi bottoni con la “M” che a cuffie accesse flashano ogni qualche secondo. Si spengono tenendo premuto finchè non si vedono un paio di flashate. Da spente bisogna tenere premuto il bottone, ad un certo punto ci saranno un paio di flash (l’accensione) e mantenendo premuto il led si illuminerà fisso, quando è così le cuffie sono in “pair mode” ed è quello che ci serve.

hcitool scan

il risultato del comando dovrebbe dare un indirizzo MAC del tipo: AA-11-22-33-44-FF

cp alsa-plugins/a2dpd/sample.a2dprc ~/.a2dprc
nano ~/.a2dprc


questo è un file con delle opzioni di default , bisogna cambiare solo un opzione alla fine
address=AA-11-22-33-44-FF ovviamente il vero indirizzo da mettere è il risultato del comando “hcitool scan” fatto prima.
nano ~/.asoundrc ed inserite
pcm.a2dpd {
type a2dpd
}

Ok , ora basta far partire il demone (sempre da utente come sopra) : a2dpd (questo terminale va lasciato aperto se si vuole usare le cuffie)

Per testarlo:
mplayer -ao alsa:device=a2dpd ./testsound.mp3

Da fare:

• far partire il tutto con meno menate
• fare uno script per cambiare tutte le uscite audio in a2dpd (mplayer, gstreamer,xine)

My laptop is a Packard Bell Easynote MX51-B-058 and is shipped with with Realtek ALC660 HD Audio sound chip, lspci gives the following:

gas@gas-laptop:~$ sudo lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev a1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/fOpteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. Unknown device 001c (rev 01)


even if it says “Audio device:nVidia” you must use the snd-hda-intel module to make it work and actually ubuntu loads it during startup but sound still doens’t come out from speakers or headphones That module supports lots of chipset and sometimes they are not recognized properly and you must tell him what kind of chip you are using.
My “real” sound chip is the ALC660 from realtek and the solution for me was having a look at:

gas@gas-laptop:~$ zless /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/driver/ALSA-Configuration.txt.gz


scroll down until you find
Module snd-hda-intel
--------------------

Module for Intel HD Audio (ICH6, ICH6M, ESB2, ICH7, ICH8),
ATI SB450, SB600, RS600,
VIA VT8251/VT8237A,
SIS966, ULI M5461


and down again until you find
ALC861/660
3stack 3-jack
3stack-dig 3-jack with SPDIF I/O
6stack-dig 6-jack with SPDIF I/O
3stack-660 3-jack (for ALC660)
uniwill-m31 Uniwill M31 laptop
auto auto-config reading BIOS (default)

as you can see the default config for those chips is “auto” and thats bad….for me the right one was 3stack-660.

Last step and we are done:
gas@gas-laptop:~$ sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base


and add as the last line the following:
options snd-hda-intel model=3stack-660

now, just because we mostly all come from windows,reboot.

Have fun hearing

Per il resto ho individuato ( come sempre ) un po di pro e un po di contro.
Fra i pro metterei il guadagno in velocità e la maggior reattività, fra i contro spicca la furba scelta di togliere il backend per xine e di usare solo gstreamer 0.10 con una serie di menate tipo tirare avanti con la rotella o trovarsi il play che diventa “vai avanti a rallentatore”, togliere xine e usare quel cesso di gstreamer per i video è stato un bell’errore.

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>=www-client/epiphany-extensions-2.18.0
>=app-text/evince-0.8.0
>=mail-client/evolution-2.10.0
>=gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.10.0
>=gnome-extra/evolution-exchange-2.10.0
>=gnome-extra/evolution-webcal-2.9.92
>=gnome-extra/fast-user-switch-applet-2.17.4
>=app-arch/file-roller-2.18.0
>=gnome-extra/gcalctool-5.9.14
>=gnome-extra/gconf-editor-2.18.0
>=gnome-base/gdm-2.18.0
>=app-editors/gedit-2.18.0
>=gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.18.0
>=gnome-base/gnome-desktop-2.18.0
>=app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.10.1
>=gnome-extra/gnome-games-2.18.0
>=x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.18.0
>=gnome-base/gnome-keyring-0.8
>=gnome-extra/gnome-keyring-manager-2.18.0
>=gnome-extra/gnome-media-2.18.0
>=gnome-base/gnome-menus-2.18.0
>=net-analyzer/gnome-nettool-2.18.0
>=gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.18.0
>=gnome-extra/gnome-power-manager-2.18.0
>=dev-python/gnome-python-desktop-2.18.0
>=gnome-extra/gnome-screensaver-2.18.0
>=gnome-base/gnome-session-2.18.0
>=gnome-extra/gnome-system-monitor-2.18.0
>=app-admin/gnome-system-tools-2.18.0
>=x11-terms/gnome-terminal-2.18.0
>=x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.18.0
>=gnome-extra/gnome-utils-2.18.0
>=gnome-base/gnome-volume-manager-2.17.0
>=x11-themes/gtk-engines-2.10.0
>=gnome-extra/gtkhtml-3.14.0
>=gnome-extra/gucharmap-1.10.0
>=gnome-extra/libgail-gnome-1.18.0
>=gnome-base/libgnomekbd-2.18.0
>=gnome-base/libgnomeprint-2.18.0
>=gnome-base/libgnomeprintui-2.18.0
>=dev-libs/liboobs-2.18.0
>=x11-libs/libwnck-2.18.0
>=x11-wm/metacity-2.18.0
>=gnome-base/nautilus-2.18.0.1
>=gnome-extra/nautilus-cd-burner-2.18.0
>=app-accessibility/orca-2.18.0
>=media-video/totem-2.18.0
>=net-misc/vino-2.18.0
>=x11-libs/vte-0.16.0
>=gnome-extra/yelp-2.18.0
>=gnome-extra/zenity-2.18.0
>=dev-cpp/gconfmm-2.18.0
>=dev-cpp/gnome-vfsmm-2.18.0
>=dev-cpp/libgnomemm-2.18.0
>=dev-cpp/libgnomeuimm-2.18.0
>=dev-python/gnome-python-2.18.0
>=gnome-base/gnome-mount-0.5
=dev-python/gnome-python-extras-2.14.2-r1
>=sys-apps/dbus-0.33
>=sys-apps/hal-0.5.0
>=sys-apps/pmount-0.9.3-r3
>=x11-libs/cairo-0.5.2
# End of GNOME 2.18.0 mask


in bocca al lupo

Vista is a bunch of shitty tools whose reason to exist is to drive you nuts.

As soon as I started Vista I realized that having the harddisk led blinking every often would have driven me crazy in a couple of days, then I found out that my laptop had Norton installed and it is a very well known fact that after you install something from Symantec you simply can’t get rid of it, they love you and they’ll stick with you….forever.

But you know….I have paid for a license.So the next thing was trying to shrink that smart 120Gigs partition and try to make things a little bit more clever and wow! Vista as its own partition utlity that actually is able to shrink the only filesystem it can read, for once it seemed that MS had done something almost right. Nope. That Shrink utility is (again) stupid and the best that it can do is shrinking your partition to half of what it was so I had to reboot with gparted live who actually did the job. Not completely because Vista didn’t like those changes and some repairing utility started ( by itself) that after 3 hours let me boot Vista. So as a start if Packard Bell had provided me a damn windows install cd I was done in 1 hour by instead they had to do things the cool way with their own Master DVD.( that you must make it yourself and if you lose it your fucked because you can’t make another one).

Then usability: Vista is secure , it comes with a *nix like hierarchy , in fact when you want to do operations that could potentially destroy your computer your screen turns gray and you have to click two times rather than one and in my home this is a cracker safe environment.

Software: the only software I use on windows is SolidWorks that does’t work on my Vista, no wonder why in April the solidworks guys said that they are going to make a linux version of it (maybe because they use opengl?).

Solution: format and classical winxp install on is tiny 10Gigs in NTFS and the rest in something that Virus called windows can’t understand.

P.S. btw the laptop itself as far i can tell is not bad, the Atheros wireless seems less powerful that the intel one….

Leggendo un po di quei “Perfect Setup” ho capito che “l’email” è un metodo di comunicazione “antico” e quindi è un casino da capire, nella mia mente malata ho fatto un paragone coi servizi postali “veri e non virtuali”

• MTA: Mail Transport Agent: è quella cosa che mette in comunicazione i server, è l’ufficio postale che manda la posta ad un altro ufficio postale di competenza. Esempio: mando uno cartolina da un paese trento a uno di milano ,la cartolina arriva alle poste di trento che la manda alle poste di milano.Il camion che va da Trento a Milano pieno di lettere è l’MTA.
• MDA: Mail Delivery Agent: è quella cosa che consegna l’email in arrivo dal server agli utenti ovvero è il postino che in vespa vi porta la cartolina dall’ufficio di milano a casa vostra
• MUA: Mail User Agent: è la vostra casella di posta in cui il postino mette la cartolina che verrà presa da chi di dovere ( voi che uscite di casa la mattina rimbambiti dal sonno in pantofole a prendere la posta

Fondamentalmente a me serve solo l’MTA : tutte le lettere spedite da casa mia dovranno andare all’ufficio Gmail piuttosto che essere smistate internamente.Così facendo posso licenziare il postino smarzo che gira in bici sulle strade di alice e usare quello “bravo” di gmail.
Ci sono vari MTA , abolito sendmail causa eccessiva “antichità” ovvero non ce ne vengo fuori una mazza, ho preferito usare postfix al posto di exim4.

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install postfix mailx(la configurazione di default va bene)

Ora per prima cosa creiamo gli alias ( /etc/aliases o /etc/mail/aliases), ovvero diciamo al sistema che le email ad un utente devono essere reindirizzate ad un altro, faremo in modo che ogni email verso un qualsiasi utente venga reindirizzata ad uno solo, un unico indirizzo “catch all/prendi tutto”.In Ubuntu il file alias originale è praticamente vuoto e quindi ho preferito usare quello un po più completo di gentoo:

# Basic system aliases -- these MUST be present.
MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster
postmaster: root

# Standard RFC2142 aliases
abuse: postmaster
ftp: root
hostmaster: root
news: usenet
noc: root
security: root
usenet: root
uucp: root
webmaster: root
www: webmaster
www-data: webmaster
# trap decode to catch security attacks
# decode: /dev/null


Questo file alias reindirizza tutte le mail degli utenti dei sistemi linux più comuni al root, ora dobbiamo impostare un reindirizzamento da root ad un utente specifico e da quell’utente verso la casella mail esterna, se il vostro utente è “mario” dovrete aggiungere queste righe:


root: mario
mario: nomeutente@caselladipostaesterna.it


poi da root avvisiamo postfix del nuovo cambiamento
postaliases /etc/aliases
/etc/init.d/postfix restart


ora dovrebbe funzionare, non posso provare del tutto la correttezza dell’howto perchè ho un FQD ( fully qualified domain) , ditemi se c’è qualcosa che non va.
Per testare basta mandare da comando una cosa del genere ” il “.” (punto) è il comando che indica la fine del messaggio

mail postmaster
Subject: test mta a postmaster
questo un test
.
Cc:


se il messaggio viene spedito correttamente le ultime righe del log (/var/log/mail.log) dovrebbero essere queste:

May 17 14:56:27 caldaia postfix/pickup[31816]: DBB42D5477: uid=0 from=
May 17 14:56:27 caldaia postfix/cleanup[848]: DBB42D5477: message-id=<20070517125627.DBB42D5477@caldaia.homelinux.net>
May 17 14:56:28 caldaia postfix/qmgr[24365]: DBB42D5477: from=, size=508, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
May 17 14:56:28 caldaia postfix/cleanup[848]: 0D006D5474: message-id=<20070517125627.DBB42D5477@caldaia.homelinux.net>
May 17 14:56:28 caldaia postfix/qmgr[24365]: 0D006D5474: from=, size=652, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
May 17 14:56:28 caldaia postfix/local[851]: DBB42D5477: to=, orig_to=, relay=local, delay=0.33, delays=0.23/0/0/0.09, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (forwarded as 0D006D5474)
May 17 14:56:28 caldaia postfix/qmgr[24365]: DBB42D5477: removed
May 17 14:56:30 caldaia postfix/smtp[852]: 0D006D5474: to=, orig_to=, relay=lucagasperini.com[74.220.202.37]:25, delay=2.2, delays=0.09/0/1.2/0.89, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 OK id=1HofWv-0000×0-JE)
May 17 14:56:30 caldaia postfix/qmgr[24365]: 0D006D5474: removed


I server dns hanno il compito di risolvere i nomi che noi digitiamo nella barra dell’indirizzo del browser in numeri ed in particolare in indirizzi IP più capibili da una macchina che le lettere. Per questo motivi è importante avere dei server dns affidabili e liberi dalle influenze dei vari governi anche quello italiano.Quando noi digitiamo “www.google.it” il nostro computer va a controllare sui server dns a che ip corrisponde quel nome, i server dns rispondono che al dominio google.it corrisponde l’ip “208.69.32.230″. Infatti digitando nella barra degli indirizzi del browser “www.google.it” o “208.69.32.230″ si viene indirizzati alla stessa pagina.

La maggior degli utenti in Italia non cambia i dns della propria connessione e quindi dato che le aziende che offrono il servizio adsl non sono poi così molte (per lo meno le grosse) anche i server dns usati non saranno poi così tanti.Questa situazione torna utilie a tutti coloro che giovano di un controllo sulla libertà , come il governo italiano che un po di tempo fa ha impedito a betway.com (un sito per fare scommesse) di lavorare in Italia perchè non ha pagato le tasse per poter operare ed allora ha obbligato le compagnie adsl a “modificare” i loro server dns reindirizzando www.betway.com ad una pagina del Ministero delle Finanze.So che sembra strano dato che betway finanzia la serie A , la motoGP e la Formula1 ma è così…provare per credere (testato con i dns di Alice). L’IP vero di betway è 195.244.207.20.

OpenDNS è la soluzione a questo e ad altri problemi quali il phishing informatico.

E’ sufficiente cambiare i dns ed aggiungere questi:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220


Sul come farlo rimando alle istruzioni ufficiali, sulla destra c’è un quadratino arancio dove sono contenuti i link alle varie documentazioni per Windows, Linux, Mac e per router di varie marche.

A fronte di una semplice registrazione OpenDNS offre molto di più, come la protezione AntiPishing , la correzione automatica degli errori di scrittura ( google.cpm ad esempio è un classico typo , sulle tastiere qwerty italiane la “p” è vicina alla “o” quindi è facile sbagliare, opendns correggerà automaticamente in google.com) e la nuovissima funzionalità appena introdotta: gli ShortCut

Una volta creato un account si puo andare su questa pagina e creare gli shotcuts come in figura

Con questo shotcut digitando “mail” nella barra degli indirizzi vengo mandato alla pagina di gmail con connessione sicura ssl.
Si possono creare shorcut più avanzati usando variabili, ad esempio mettendo come nome shortcut “chiama” e come WebSite “skype:%s” si crea un modo veloce per chiamare con skype , se qualcuno con quello shortcut volesse chiamare me con skype allora dovrebbe inserire nella barra degli indirizzi “chiama luk3sky”. Bello no?

Note per Debian:
ora debian stable usa resolvconf, un sistema per gestire vari dns in conseguenza alla periferica che si usa per fare la connessione.Io uso ppp ed allora invece di cambiare il file /etc/resolv.conf come si faceva una volta ho dovuto modificare il file /etc/resolvconf/run/interface/ppp0.Nel mio caso per qualche ragione ho anche dovuto modificare a mano il vecchio resolv.conf ma penso che sia un problema mio.
Note per Squid:
si puo usare opendns ma non si avranno le funzionalità come la protezione phishing o gli shortcuts.

# rm /etc/make.profile
# ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop /etc/make.profile


Nel make.defaults generale è stata aggiunta al use “acl” e tolta la “ppds”.
Nel make.defaults del profilo desktop sono state aggiunte le seguenti use: “acpi dvdread evo kerberos pdf qt3support svg tiff”.
Il profilo server non è stato toccato.

Nel mio caso 5 pacchetti buttati dentro e 15 ricompilati…poteva andare peggio.

These are the release notes and among the new changes I found:

• PHP5.x
• MySQL 5.x
• Apache 2.2.x
• GCC v4.1
• from XFree86 to X.org v7.1

Updating

Fist of all install aptitude
apt-get install aptitude

I used to have Debian Sarge 64 that is a semi official backport , now Etch is shipped with amd64 architecture too so the backport is not needed anymore. Updating is not difficult , one should change all “sarge” to “etch” in /etc/apt/sources.list, mine look like this


deb ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
#deb http://www.backports.org/debian sarge-backports main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
# TOR
deb http://mirror.noreply.org/pub/tor etch main
deb-src http://mirror.noreply.org/pub/tor etch main


the “www.backports” line is comments out because etch hit stable just today. Backports are binaries compiled for etch and shipped for sarge, sometime you can’t install a package because it misses a dependency but you can run it because it doesn’t miss any dependency while it runs, hence that backports that let me use the latest mldonkey with sarge for example.

Then


apt-get update
aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade

Note that aptitude was used rather that apt-get dist upgrade because is known to be more strict on dependencies that apt-get dist-upgrade, installing aptitude here as docs say will bring in lots of other packages.
I hope that etch will be as good as sarge , for me sarge never hanged once in its life, the only problem I had was a that a couple of deamons used to exit silently after a couple of weeks running . Hopefully etch comes with a version of shorewall that is able to handle traffic shaping.

2 cents about gentoo : I love gentoo and I have no intention to change my desktop distro …but debian management is damn faster… I remeber last Gcc major upgrade , rebuilding the the system and then the world , emerge breaking during night, a couple of days compiling vs 20 min of debs fetching in debian.

Edit: Squid and Shorewall have new configurations:

• Squid: ( ola ola Christian )delete these lineshttpd_accel_host virtual
httpd_accel_port 80
httpd_accel_with_proxy on
httpd_accel_uses_host_header on and add this always_direct allow all.Now look for http_port X.X.X.X and add “transparent” the result should be something like this:http_port 192.168.1.2:8080 transparent

• Shorewall: have a look at /usr/share/doc/shorewall/examples . Now the file “zones” must contain the firewall zone, there are no comments and no display any more so in the end you should find something like this:net ipv4
loc ipv4
fw firewall

  ipv4 is the default for normail traffic

To listen it:

sudo cat /dev/mem >> /dev/audio

To record it:

sudo cat /dev/mem | oggenc -rq 1 -o mem.ogg -

Here’s mine

[Vai al sito per ascoltare il brano]

I used ogg2mp3 in portage for the transcoding.

Original aricle: mogrify » Blog Archive » 33 seconds of RAM

ftp://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/ftp.archlinux.org/0.7.2/iso/i686/arch-0.7.2.iso
…………………………………………………….

Utilizzando i tag dell’XML vengono descritte alcune informazioni sul file tipo le varie sorgenti ( anche P2P ) con locazione (Italia,Svizzera ecc), l’md5 (per controllare che il file non sia corrotto a fine download) , ed una descrizione dettagliata sul file e chi lo rilascia.
In windows getright supporta i metalink mentra per linux ho provato aria2 ( in command line).

Più di un mega… ho visto di meglio ma è stato stabile.

Hi,
So I’m posting for a rather large project. I need someone to program me a new OS (Operasting System) that looks different than Ms Windows XP etc. but has the same style. It does not need to run on a mac but all the other PCs. It’s supposed to have a stylish look with clear edges etc. And ITS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE JUST A REDESIGNED WINDOWS as I’m going to sell that operating system later on. It’s going to be called BlueOrb.

These are some important points :

It should have ALL THE FEATURES that Windows Xp Professional has.
ALL the files that run on Windows XP ust also run on the BlueOrb OS.
It must have a very user-friendly interface (like MS WINDOWS XP)
When it gets Installed, the user needs to insert a serial number.
It HAS to be HACKER SAFE!
It must be quick and good looking.

Note that I only accept quality work and do not want any quickly done BS.

greetz,

M.Reinhardt

And here’s the best answer :

Hi. I can do this for you next week, when I plan on taking a break from a nonotech based / atomic fission driven search engine thats going to make larry page wet his pants. 6 days to code, 1 to rest. It will be written from scratch and completely original in design, so don’t worry about copyright bs. I plan to write the entire OS in C, and blindfolded, if its all the same to you. 100% secure will not be a problem either…In fact the OS will be designed to leverage jedi mind tricks to kill anyone that even thinks about breaking in. (i was thinking maybe make them chop off their feet and jump up and down until their empty would be fair). Anyways, I’m gonna smoke some more crack, maybe you should do the same. Thanks!

Gravatar significa Globally Recognized Avatar , ed è un modo che i blogger usano per associare un identità ad un immagine nei commenti dei post, ad esempio quando io scrivo un commento ad un post su un blog che supporta i gravatar compare automaticamente la mia immagine affianco al nome.

Per prima cosa bisogna registrarsi , ricevuta l’email di conferma si viene reindirizzati ad una pagina ,clicckando su “My gravatars” appare il pannello di controllo (se così si può chiamare).Delle due cose che si possono fare la seconda serve per mandare la propria foto o avatar al server , la prima per inserire l’indirizzo email ed associargli una foto .

Non tutti i blog supportano i gravatar dato che che il servizio è rimasto chiuso per un bel pò ma probabilmente la cosa cambierà presto.Per wordpress ci sono in giro un paio di plugin , io uso gravatars2.

Si installa come tutti i plugin uploadando il contenuto del pacchetto, si attiva il plugin e si modifica il template dei commenti inserendo questa funzione

< ?php if (function_exists('gravatar')) { gravatar_image_link(); } ?>.

La funzione va inserita all’interno del loop dei commenti , questo è un esempio:

< ?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>

Il mac è per chi non vuole sapere perchè il computer funziona.
[tag]Linux[/tag] è per chi vuole sapere perchè il loro computer funziona.
Dos è per chi vuole sapere perchè il loro computer non funziona.
Windows è per chi non vuole sapere perchè il loro computer non funziona.

Nel mondo Linux , dove tutto è bello e silenzioso, se ascolti con attenzione, potrai sentire la macchine windows che si riavviano.

Fatal error: trovato windows

Linux, Dos , Windows : Il Buono , il Brutto e il Cattivo.

Il fallimento non è una possibilità: è di default per tutti con Vista.

Il nome in codice del “Corso introduttivo Microsoft a Windows Vista?” Crash Test

Da solo serve a poco o a nulla , c’è bisogno di un proxy anonimo vero con cui Tor puo collaborare , nel caso ho scelto Privoxy ( ma potevo scegliere il polipo). Con questo setup privoxy è il proxy che anonimizza la connessione ( non mostra dati sulle pagine precedentemente visitate e riferimenti di vario tipo) e si appoggia a tor per “anonimizzare” l’ip.

Installazione

Tor non è presente in Sarge ma ci sono dei depositi ufficiali da aggiungere ad /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://mirror.noreply.org/pub/tor sarge main
deb-src http://mirror.noreply.org/pub/tor sarge main

L’installazione e la configurazione sono semplicissime:
apt-get update
apt-get install tor privoxy
echo "forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 ." >>/etc/privoxy/config
invoke-rc.d privoxy restart


finita e che non mi vengano a dire che [tag]Linux[/tag] è difficile…

Configurazione del client

Ora bisogna dire al browser di usare un proxy , in firefox Edit —> Preferenze –> Avanzate —> Network —>Connection

il risultato dovrà essere una cosa di questo tipo

Per testare basta andare all’inidirizzo http://www.whatismyip.org/

L’ip è diverso da quello che compare senza privoxy? Allora funziona

Consigli

• usare un addon di firefox per abilitare/disabilitare l’utilizzo del proxy
• usare privoxy solo quando serve perchè ogni tanto dire chè è lento è troppo poco
• NON usare Tor per P2P , è da idioti
• non si puo usare proxy cache non anonimi (tipo Squid) assieme a tor/privoxy

“Linux is not like Novell, it isn’t going to run out of money - it
started off bankrupt, in a way” - Steve Ballmer

Ovvero

“Linux non è come Novell, non può finire i soldi perchè , in un certo senso , è come fosse partito dalla bancarotta” - Steve Ballmer

Hostmonster lets you connect to your account through ssh and it’s my experience that any hosting company that doesn’t provides you with this kind of connection turns out to be shitty after a while.

So after you have sent your an id card copy to the hostmonster guys ( and gals ) connect to your account with ssh.Now you have to look for a “php.ini” file under “~/public_html/”. That’s an already made php.ini that’s good for hostmonster, copy it to your wordpress root directory and then modify it.

Change line 604 from:

sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i

to

sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -fuser@example.com

The second line will make “user@example.com” the sender of all wordpress emails.(It’s not a typo, -f in the above command is the command option, hence the email address will be “user@example.com” and not “fuser@example.com)

CLICK HERE TO SIGNUP FOR HostMonster.COM NOW.

Il supporto per il sata è cambiato di posizione nel menu e forse anche qualcos’altro dato che non sono l’unico sul forum di gentoo con intel e problemi. Non è suffiente sonfigurare solo il “sata” ma anche la parte scsi immediatemente prima.Insomma smena qua e la ora parte anche se c’è ancora qualcosa da sistemare

config funzionante

Ubuntu Computer:

Processor: AMD Sempron TM 3000+ – 1,8 GHz – L2 cache: 256 kB

RAM : 512 MB DDR400 (max. 2 GB)

Hard disk: 80 GB – SATA – 7200 RPM

Video: Integrated GeForce 6

Audio: Integrated Realtec ALC655

Ports: 1 x parallel – 1 x serial – VGA – PS/2 Keyboard – PS/2 Mouse – 6 x USB (2 front; 4 back) – RJ45 LAN jack

Drives: floppy – combo: DVDROM / CDRW

Accessoires: Keyboard (Belgian Azerty) / Mouse (optical)

Operating system: [tag]Linux[/tag]

[tag]Software[/tag]: Openoffice, Koffice, Kmail, Kontact, Cad, Thunderbird, Amsn,
Gimp, Groupware, un vero firewall.

Prezzo: 510Euro

[tag]Windows[/tag] [tag]Vista[/tag] Ultimate (solo software senza Office senza antivirus) : 570 Euro (misco , 1/2/2007)

PREPARATI A WINDOWS VISTA

Ernerst is basically a Hemingway on Crack version.

Description

• Ajax effects: moo.fx library is used for some show/hide effects.Three effect are used : 2 “accordions” on sidebars (one in this page the other on the homepage) and a “combo” toogled by clicking the “I” icon near the post title always in the homepage
• Plugin Ready: ready for Ultimate Tag Warrior and Brian’s latest comments,things shows up in the right place without changing anything manually, you don’t need this plugins in order to use Ernest, Ernest is simply ready for them.
• W3C valid XHTML
• Full in English
• Wordpress 2.0+ ( It works with 2.1, I will sanitize the code with the new hooks when it will be necessary but not now)

Download

Ernest Tar GZip

Ernest Zip

Installation

Grab one of those files above , uncompress it and upload “Ernest” directory to wp-content/themes, Go to Wordpress dashboard —>Presentation and chose Ernest.

Plugins

If you need theme you can find them here : Brian’s lastest comments , Ultimate Tag Warrior.

Once installed and activated you don’t need to change anything in your template files, Ernest will do the job, have a look here.

See it

http://www.crawlthewords.com/blog/

You need to change the template of your homepage from < ?php $hemingway->excerpt() ?> to
a more classic < ?php the_content('

Read the rest of this entry »’); ?>

This way you wan’t have an excerpt of your article by default in your homepage but you have to use the proper line breaker< !-##-more-##-> without the 4 symbols “#”

mencoder origfile.avi -ovc xvid -xvidencopts fixed_quant=4 -o output.avi -oac copy -sub subfile.srt -subfont-text-scale 3