Sunday, March 1, 2009

media player acer aspire one

Just downloaded some podcast from sf.tv.
These files come with an .m4v extension, so actually they are .mp4 files.
The Acer Aspire One won't play them out of the box, but it's easy to set it up.

open a terminal and type the following:

sudo rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
sudo yum install vlc


if this doesn't work out, do the following:

sudo yum install fedora-release
sudo yum install vlc


you probably want to install it also for Firefox, so type:

yum install python-vlc mozilla-vlc


done!
:-)

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Thunderbird Portable - Configuration - Win XP

Create a ThunderbirdPortable.ini File. How to do this you'll find in the \ThunderbirdPortable\Other\Source\Readme.txt File that comes with the installation.

Google Sync - Iphone

Just changed from Nuevasync to GOOGLE SYNC to sync my Google Contacts and Google Calendar with my Iphone.

Monday, February 9, 2009

pdf - debian 'etch'

apt-get install xpdf


For more information about pdf and debian see the debian wiki.

ntfs-3g - debian 'etch' - read and write ntfs

today I wanted to mount my external harddisc in ntfs format, so that's what I did:

I basically followed the instructions, that are described here.

1. Because of unsolved dependencies in 'etch' I had to manually download ntfs-3g and libntfs-3g.


2. install dependencies:

apt-get install fuse-utils libfuse2




3. install ntfs-3g using the just downloaded packages:

dpkg -i libntfs-3g0_0.0.0+20061031-6_i386.deb
dpkg -i ntfs-3g_0.0.0+20061031-6_i386.deb



4. mount the external disc:

ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/extdisc -o force



note:
a) Make sure that you create the directory /mnt/extdisc before mounting.
b) /dev/sda1 is to be replaced by your disc (find out by typing: 'fdisk -l')
c) Because there was en error loading the disc normally (might be caused by ms windows), I used the 'force' option.

Friday, February 6, 2009

slim down the debian 'etch' minimal x-system

Got this error message at start-up, that the internet superserver doesn't start, so I first did the following:

update-rc.d -f openbsd-inetd remove


But soon afterwards I decided to remove the whole openbsd-inetd package by typing:

apt-get remove -purge openbsd-inetd

Gimp

apt-get install gimp

nice and fast!