Startrek Online has been out for a while now and I have been thinking of perhaps testing it. I read a bit about in on WineHQ and it seemd that it should run under Wine without to much problems. So i decided to have a go at it.
I decided to start the thing by trying the Demo game you can donwload and try.
I have a lot of friends and family on facebook. And facebook has a nice chat function, but the problem is that its only giving off a small sound when someone types to me and i usually dowt have the facebook up so I usually misset. But during the week I came a cross a site talking about how to access facebook from any XMPP or Jabber enabled chat client. And as Kopete can use that I set it up and it works very nice.
I did came across this video in another blog today and can help sharing it with you all:
So Im down at the summer house, but before I left Stockholm i needed to fix remote access to my home system.
Well I have had access via ssh to my home system regardless where I am but I would prefer so really control my desktop on my home server from anywhere.
So I started looking into how to do this. Preferable secure and safe and all that. 
So my home system is a kubuntu 8,04 and yes I know its kind of old but i don’t want to upgrade it yet.
So i first started out trying the built in version krfb. Well regardless of what I tried I could not get it to work. I could connect to the system but as soon as I did that it crashed. So i investigated a bit and found a number of similar post out there so its not unheard of.
So what to do?
Well the solution is to remove that and get x11vnc working instead.
So I installed this with apt-get:
sudo apt-get install x11vnc
Then logout and restart the Xserver just to make sure all things are loaded correctly. Just to be paranoid I setup a password with vncpasswd to be used so that its harder to login.
Then you can login to the system and forward the defalt vnc port (5900) to the remote machine, start x11vnc on that system and it will work.
So on your local system start the ssh:
ssh -L 5900:localhost:5900 username@10.10.10.10
When youhave logged in to your remote system, fire up x11vnc:
x11vnc -usepw -display :0
And back on you local system in another window start up vncviewer:
vncviewer localhost::5900
and you should get a copy of your remote desktop.
Today I’m down it the summerhouse and as im mowing lawns I decided to convert some of my audiobooks.
So I fired up Virtualbox and started my itunes in there. Then i decided to check the route to my spekaers and clicked on the pulseaudio applet. But wait its not in the taskbar.
I found this litte blogpost today – about how to install the virtual box guest extensions in lucid lynx. This is good if you whant to run a test of lucid in you normal machine.
One other thing that really enoyed me when moving over to 9.10 was that links in thunderbird open the wrong browser. As firefox is a nice browser but it takes for ever to start, I have started to use chrome as my web-browser. and I am fairly happy with it. Its stable and works well. But when I am running thunderbird (mail-client) and get a mail with a link in, I would prefere that it open chrome. As it was it opens firefox.
One problem I had with the change over to 9.10 was that when i started to edit a file, the highlighting of syntax was very bad and I could not see what was there. Yellow on a black background is not that god, so I started to switch over to white on black as my console colours. But I don’t like that. I prefers black on white.
