NO MORE WINDWOS!
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With a simple unassuming mke2fs, winnt (ntfs) partition is gone … forever… for good! That partition was just sitting there as dead space as I donot even remember what is the last time I logged into windows. Needed some space for ivr log scaning and decided to get rid of it and turn it into an ext2.
umount /mnt/winnt
mke2fs /dev/hda1
mkdir /opt2
umount /opt2
kbiff is impossible to install. To start, there seem no woody package for kbiff in kde area. Compiling with downloaded source had failed dependency (during configure) for qt-mt. After I go pass this after installing libqt3-mt-dev now its stuck for kde-dev. kde-dev has too many failed dependencies and may perhaps never be installed. I think its not worth the effort.
gbiff from woody repository crashes right after starting. Downloaded source & compiled it. The compile went ok and it starts up good. After a brief look, tkbiff seem better. So settling for tkbiff for now.
IMAP aware biff?
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Thought it would be nice to have a biff (preferably docable) app to tell me of any new mails in the IMAP server. Tried biff and several variations (xbiff, gbiff, glbiff, xlbiff,…) but not sure how to configure (if any). Newsgroups point to fetchmail -c and comsat.
Found this tkbiff. Not exactly docable app, not exactly an eye-candy stuff. But does the job. It displays 5 recent mails in a small scorllable window.
http://expect.nist.gov/tkbiff/
Noticed alsa is broken. No sound app (like xmms/realplayer) would work. kmix gives the same error cupsd gave a while back.
/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3′ not found
Downloaded latest source from alsa-project (0.9.2 has just been released today). Compiled & installed (with OSS emulation) and things are back to normal.
Alsa 0.9.2 Installation:
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Compile & install (configure; make; make install) drivers first.
copy snddevices to /usr/local/bin
check that /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/sound/pci has updated drivers.
Compile & install libs
Compile & install utils
Compile & install oss
Copy binaries from utils/* to /usr/local/bin
New init script is /etc/init.d/alsasound
Restart server with
/etc/init.d/alsasound restart
Check if any snd- modules are loaded. If not load them with
modprobe snd-intel8×0
modprobe snd-mixer-oss
modprobe snd-pcm-oss
Check with lsmod
Update /etc/modules file (add the following)
snd-intel8×0
soundcore
snd-mixer-oss
snd-pcm-oss
Use kmix to bump up volume (remember! by default everything is muted).
You are all set.
testing konqueror to see if I can use blogger with out the annoying popup about the cookie problem. OK.
konqueror connects to websites (used to error out couple of days back). Not sure what fixed this?
cupsd is broken now. /etc/init/cupsd restart gives the following error:
/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3′ not found
I suspect old cupsus was comiple with newer libc from unstable/testing and after downgrading it is broke.
Did a make clean; configure; make; make install on /opt/cups
Fixed.
Also cleande up completed jobs files in /var/spool/cups/ dir.
ymessenger is working ok after setting Connection to “Firewall with no proxy” (thanks to Gajendra).
I see no such option in GAIM/Everybuddy.
Found a number of unwanted services being started in /etc/init.d. chmod -x’ing the following:
apache2.dpkg-new
apache2.org
cupsys.org
dhcp3-server
dns-clean
etc-setserial
icecast-server
jabber
lisa
mysql
ppp
tomcat
tomcat.dpkg-dist
tomcat4
apache2 starts by default instead of apache1.3 on boot. This is ok, but I have hard time configuring jserv (& cocoon) with apache2. Also there is no real push to move to latest and greatest apache.
chmod -x /etc/init.d/apache2*
fixed it.
