Comments (0) I am happy to report that AppleWorks 6 for Mac OS X runs perfectly on Snow Leopard using Rosetta.
Just be sure to get the latest update from http://support.apple.com/downloads/AppleWorks_6_2_9_for_Mac
Also, if you have problems running the update (hang/freeze), try running it with all network connections disconnected.
To get DVD playback to work properly in XBMC on Ubuntu, disable nautilus’ automount feature
-> gconf-editor
apps->nautilus->preferences
Uncheck “media-automount”
http://www.pubbs.net/201002/opensuse/27474-opensuse-disable-automount-for-dvd-drive.html
Finally, after about an hour of googling, I found a program that allows a SOCKS proxy to be made transparent. Installed on a router/gateway, this can force all LAN users’ traffic through the proxy.
via http://wiki.przemoc.net/tips/linux#making_socks_proxy_transparent
#!/bin/bash if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then echo "Syntax: $0 debfile" exit 1 fi DEBFILE="$1" TMPDIR=`mktemp -d /tmp/deb.XXXXXXXXXX` || exit 1 OUTPUT=`basename "$DEBFILE" .deb`.modfied.deb if [[ -e "$OUTPUT" ]]; then echo "$OUTPUT exists." rm -r "$TMPDIR" exit 1 fi dpkg-deb -x "$DEBFILE" "$TMPDIR" dpkg-deb --control "$DEBFILE" "$TMPDIR"/DEBIAN if [[ ! -e "$TMPDIR"/DEBIAN/control ]]; then echo DEBIAN/control not found. rm -r "$TMPDIR" exit 1 fi CONTROL="$TMPDIR"/DEBIAN/control MOD=`stat -c "%y" "$CONTROL"` vi "$CONTROL" if [[ "$MOD" == `stat -c "%y" "$CONTROL"` ]]; then echo Not modfied. else echo Building new deb... dpkg -b "$TMPDIR" "$OUTPUT" fi rm -r "$TMPDIR"
via HOWTO: Easily modify dependencies of a .deb file – Ubuntu Forums.
ppa:markus-tisoft/rt3090
via Ralink 3090 driver : Markus Heberling.
Driver for the cheap Ralink wireless in the Acer Aspire Revo.
Yes, I know, another Linux post. What can I say, this is what I do these days.
I’ve been running a Windows server in a kvm VM just to be able to run uTorrent. This was overkill, had a crazy amount of overhead, and was unstable (downloading to a share on my Samba server). Today I decided to attempt a more efficient solution: uTorrent in Wine. (Yes, there are other BitTorrent clients, and even… NATIVE Linux clients, but I’ve found none of them match the speed of uTorrent for my connection except for kTorrent. However, I don’t have an Android and/or iPhone app to remote control kTorrent.) Wine is a supported platform, according to the uTorrent website, however I wanted to run it on a headless OpenVZ container, and not on a standard desktop Linux distro. Should still be pretty simple, but knowing me, I might forget something next time I try and set this up, so I’ll document it here.
Next steps:
Trying to set up Samba on a Debian server so that shares can be browsed as a guest, and user-authentication is optional. IIRC this is the default behaviour on Ubuntu.
After hours of messing around, I finally decided to grab the /etc/samba/smb.conf from and ubuntu machine and replace the debian one. And what do you know, it works.
seems the key directive is
usershare allow guests = yes
Ubuntu:
#======================= Global Settings ======================= [global] log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* . obey pam restrictions = yes map to guest = bad user encrypt passwords = true passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passdb backend = tdbsam dns proxy = no server string = %h server (Samba) unix password sync = yes unix extensions = no workgroup = WORKGROUP os level = 20 syslog = 0 panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d usershare allow guests = yes max log size = 1000 pam password change = yes
Debian:
#======================= Global Settings ======================= [global] log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* . obey pam restrictions = yes null passwords = yes encrypt passwords = yes public = yes passdb backend = tdbsam passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u unix extensions = no dns proxy = no server string = %h server unix password sync = yes workgroup = WORKGROUP os level = 20 security = user syslog = 0 panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d max log size = 1000 pam password change = yes
Simple fix for Mac OS X 10.6.3 Samba Write Access problem – OS X Daily.
Why this hasn’t been fixed yet is beyond me.
Macfusion: The world in your Finder.
A handy gui to MacFUSE – user-space filesystem for Mac OS X
Enabling ATSC & QAM in Canada for Windows 7 RTM – Peter Near’s Blog.
Today, I wanted to PVR the Vancouver 2010 opening ceremonies in HD, but was dismayed to find that Windows Media Center does NOT support ATSC if your region is set to Canada. Fortunately resourceful users have found a workaround patch. See link above.
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