Since I watch Planet KDE it was easy to get caught up in the excitement around the launch of the new version of KDE (the announcement is here). I was unable to resist giving it a try on the laptop! So this post is coming from Konqueror 4.0.0.I tried an early Beta of the KDE … Continue reading KDE 4.0: be free.
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In part one I mentioned how I was considering using Google Talk as my main chat ID. As it turns out, I talked myself out of it pretty quickly after I delved into using Google Talk to connect to MSN and other services as I do now with my own Jabber server. While there are … Continue reading Jabber and Google: part two
I reactivated an idle Google account the other day. A friend of mine from the Netherlands invited me ages ago but I never really did anything with it until I discovered that a Google Mail account can be used for other Google stuff as well, including Google Talk. I read that Google Talk is based … Continue reading Jabber and Google, part one
I've been running jabberd2 from ~x86 for ages. Tonight I went to make some config changes, and stopped and started jabberd using the init script like usual. Things were different though, as the init script didn't shut down all the Jabber tasks and I had to stop them manually. When I went to restart it, … Continue reading Gentoo + jabberd = aargh
Something ugly happened to my LDAP database a while back, and I never noticed. I saw it had lost a bunch of records, but I'd put it down to some replication problem and never investigated. It wasn't until I tried to replace one of the lost records, and got an error from LDAP telling me … Continue reading OpenLDAP database recovery
Ages ago, I read or saw something about using your SSH passphrase to log in to your system. Seemed like a good idea, but I never got around to implementing it. One of the methods available is a PAM module called pam_ssh. I just gave it a test on a Ubuntu Gutsy system, and it … Continue reading pam_ssh
I had some system problems yesterday. My VMware guests just stopped. Middle of the day and they just died. I tried to run the management console or even the command line programs, but they all failed with the infamous "VMware is installed but is not configured for this system..." message and the prompt to run vmware-config.pl. I re-emerged vmware-server … Continue reading Gentoo “hardened” multilib?
I found out a little more about a problem that's been really annoying me for ages: I can't access my bank's Internet banking using Konqueror. When I hit the button, Konqueror proclaims that it "Could not connect to host", but if I right-click on the "Login" link and choose "Open with Firefox Web Browser..." it works … Continue reading Konqueror and Internet Banking
When I first set up FreePBX, I was frustrated by the inability to create a voicemail user independently of an extension. It looked to me like an office system, where each handset was associated with an individual and had its own voicemail. In the end I created a few extensions that were not associated with handsets and … Continue reading FreePBX modes
My desktop Ubuntu system is/was a 32-bit build running on 64-bit hardware. I'd been looking on-and-off for a way to in-place upgrade an Ubuntu system from i386 to x86_64, but it doesn't look easy/feasible/worthwhile compared to a fresh install. So thinking that I was up for a reinstall anyway, I decided to check out whether Ubuntu was … Continue reading Sabayon Linux
Crossed Wires 