v_2ryann (v-2ryann) wrote on 2010-07-30: #18
Here is the answer guys, on how to do it without changing the effects:
1) Open a terminal o press ALT+F2, then run/type: gconf-editor
2) Go to /desktop/gnome/remote_access and enable “disable_xdamage”

some launchpad bugs for this issue:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vino/+bug/299112

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vino/+bug/772873

related ubuntu forum posts:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1744161

Please note: This workaround does NOT appear to work on the new ubuntu 11.10. There is no “disable_xdamage” in the remote_access keys:

No disable_xdamage key available for 11.10

[root@localhost ~]# ping -c2 www.google.com
ping: unknown host www.google.com

Edit /etc/resolv.conf to add some nameservers:

# Googles Public DNS
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4
search localdomain

No reboot necessary!

(writing this basic step because Googling does not provide simple answer. ) This is not obviously how to set up a DNS server – it is just how to get the box to resolve DNS. old school basics that no one seems to want to document.

1. On apt based Linux, install wkhtmltopdf and its dependencies :
sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf

2. Usage:

To convert a remote HTML file to PDF:
wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com google.pdf

To convert a local HTML file to PDF:
wkhtmltopdf my.html my.pdf

You can also convert to PS files if you like:
wkhtmltopdf my.html my.ps

The eler2.pdf sample file
wkhtmltopdf http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/eler-highlights-2008 eler2.pdf -H --outline

source: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/wiki/Usage

Creator/maintainer has also recently created some PHP bindings for this as well. More on this version at http://blog.perplexedlabs.com/2010/09/15/convert-html-to-pdf-in-php-libwkhtmltox-extension/

sudo apt-get install mt-daapd
will get you a nice reliable music server. Available in Ubuntu repositories.

>mt-daapd -V
Firefly Media Server: Version svn-1696

You can configure from the web interface:

If you must manually configure a setting, /etc/mt-daapd.conf can be manually edited.

g@gubuntu:~$ sudo more /etc/mt-daapd.conf


# $Id: mt-daapd.conf.templ 1660 2007-09-12 13:08:04Z rpedde $
#
# This is the mt-daapd config file.
#
# If you have problems or questions with the format of this file,
# direct your questions to rpedde@users.sourceforge.net.
#
# Questions and discussions about the format and content of this
# config file can probably be obtained by consulting the wiki:
#
# http://wiki.fireflymediaserver.org/Config_File
#
# Or by asking questions on the forums at
#
# http://forums.fireflymediaserver.org
#
#
[general]
# If you installed from tarball without –prefix=/usr, then the correct
# path is probably /usr/local/share/mt-daapd/admin-root.
#

web_root = /usr/share/mt-daapd/admin-root

#
# port (required)
#
# What port to listen on. It is possible to use a different
# port, but this is the default iTunes port
#

port = 3689

#
# admin_pw (required)
#
# This is the password to the administrative pages
#

admin_pw = yourpwd_here

#
# db_type (required)
#
# This is what kind of backend database to store the song
# info in. Valid choices are “sqlite” and “sqlite3″.
#

db_type = sqlite3

Firefly Media Server is being re-written (forked-daapd)

Note: Adding these software repositories to your ubuntu installation can have undesired effects if you leave them in the sources.list after their initial use.

The mt-daapd media server has been forked by the last contributor Julien Blache, and is being totally re-written. See http://blog.technologeek.org/2009/06/12/217 and http://blog.technologeek.org/2011/04/09/483

The latest debian build http://alioth.debian.org/~jblache/forked-daapd/

One way to install forked-daapd on an Ubuntu system from http://jamesdanylik.com/articles/undoing-the-damage-replacing-mt-daapd-firefly-with-forked-daapd/

Basically, it includes adding “deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian squeeze main” to your /etc/apt/sources.list, running an “apt-get update,” and then using the Debian testing build of forked-daapd to install with a “sudo apt-get install forked-daapd.” Very clever, and makes the whole process pretty painless.

One caveat: if you’re like me and Jason, you’ll probably get an error saying “main: libgcrypt version mismatch” when forked-daapd tries to start up. This is due to Debian using a different version of gcrypt; install it with “sudo apt-get install libgcrypt11,” and you should be right as rain. Just don’t forget to delete the Debian line from your sources.list after you get everything working, or you’ll have all sorts of strange problems. Edit your setting in /etc/forked-daapd.conf, and start the party by running “sudo /etc/init.d/forked-daapd start.

Key Server Error fix from

http://en.kioskea.net/faq/809-debian-apt-get-no-pubkey-gpg-error

Issue

When updating the Debian based system, it may happens that the apt-get displays an error message like:

W: GPG error: ftp://ftp.debian.org/ testing Release:

The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 010908312D230C5F

W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs:

010908312D230C5F

This is a new feature of the apt-get system that guarantee the authenticity of servers for updating Debian.

Solution

Type the following commands, REPLACE the number of the key that displayed in the error message:

gpg –keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu –recv-key 010908312D230C5F

gpg -a –export 010908312D230C5F | sudo apt-key add -

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/mt-daapd

/usr/share/doc/mt-daapd$ more changelog.Debian

mt-daapd (0.9~r1696.dfsg-16) unstable; urgency=low

* debian/patches/18_itunes10_fix.dpatch:

+ Added; handle aeMK tag, mandatory for iTunes 10 (closes: #596250).

— Julien BLACHE Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:50:24 +0200

mt-daapd (0.9~r1696.dfsg-15) unstable; urgency=low

* debian/control:

+ Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3 (no changes).

* debian/rules:

+ Call dh_installlogcheck.

* debian/mt-daapd.logcheck.ignore.server:

+ Added logcheck rules to ignore trivial mt-daapd log messages

(closes: #547010).

— Julien BLACHE Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:48:07 +0200

“What’s the weather going to be like today?” – in Iowa this is an especially relevant question. The weather seems to change day to day. With this little setup, now have weather retrieved and spoken to us.

espeak

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TextToSpeech

espeak is already installed on Ubuntu Linux.

weather-util

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/en/man1/weather-util.1.html

So install weather-util:
> sudo apt-get install weather-util

Setup our bash shell script:

#!/bin/bash
## check out this list! http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/forecasts/
## http://aviationweather.gov/adds/metars/stations.txt Iowa City is KIOW, Cedar Rapids is KCID
CURRENTWEATHER=$(weather-util -i KCID)
# speak english with Scottish accent
espeak -s 110 -v en-sc "Todays weather is $CURRENTWEATHER"

espeak -s 110 -v en-sc "What! You want the Forecast too? This is only my first day! "


Save to a file , say ‘/home/gare/readWeather.sh’.

Make File Executable:
> chmod u+x /home/gare/readWeather.sh


Setup our crontab schedule for 6 am:

# at 5 a.m every week with:
0 6 * * * /home/gare/readWeather.sh


Done!

For extra fun, set this up on a netbook , and set under your wife’s bed for a wakeup surprise!

If interest I can post a script that reads the current time as well.

modified for espeak from this thread : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=928060&page=2 and updated to use espeak