I have an external bluetooth mouse that I have been using for ages. Its a microsoft intelimous with a number of buttons and a mouse wheel.
And I realy love it – except fo one small thing. And its not realy the mouse problem, but the mouse driver in linux.
Yesturday is was out and moved my car as we have date parking and one are not alowed to have the car parked outside.
I also had to do some small shopping, so I went to the shoppingmall and bought what I was missing.
On my way out I thought about getting a gps navigator for the car. I want one for 1 reason – warnings for speed cameras.
So i have a few requirements:
And most points where not a big issue except the last one. None of the ones they had in the store works with linux.
And tomtom is the most interesting of them. The machine itself is running a linux system, and they have even released the os or atleast the kernel as open source, but to run the updating proram on linux – no way.
So for now its no luck for me to get one. I have to look more. 
I går var jag ute och flyttade på bilen (det är städdag/plogdag hos oss på tisdagar) och jag hade bilen parkerad lite bort där dom har städ/plogdag på onsdagar, så jag var tvungen att ge mej ut i kylan.
Jag hade också tänkt mej lite grillad kyckling till kvällen men den jag köpte hade datumen gått ut på så den fick jag slänga. Jag är ganska liberal med att tolka sista förbrukningsdatum utom när det gäller kyckling. Den kan man ju bli så dålig av. Så det blev en liten tripp till affären. Handlade lite grillat och på vägen ut tänkte jag att jag går förbi och kolla vilka navigatorer dom har på OnOff.
Jag vill ha en navigator av 1 anledning och det är att få varningar om fartkameror. Så givetvis ska den uppdatera detta, så mina önskemål är:
Och det flesta sakerna var inga problem utom detta lilla att jag vill köra linux. Ingen av navigatorerna fungerar med Linux.
Tomtom är extra interesant för maskinen i sig själv kör ett linuxsystem, dom har till och med publicera tos’et eller kerneln som open source, men att köra uppdaterings programmen på linux – inte.
Så för nu är det inte möjligt för mej att skaffa en verkar det som. Jag får väl leta mera.
Last week I got tired of typing passwords. Well what really was happening was that I decided to start using svn (or subversion) for all of our source code. And I like that fact that svn can work over ssh. So I set up our own archive on our main machine and started to fill it up. But using svn over ssh also means that you need to specify you password a number of times, and even more that once for a svn command.
So on friday I updated my system with the latest patches. And all went well untill i tried to start virtualbox and the windows programs im using there. No luck – a big warning and it stoped and said that the kernel module was not started.
So off to google a nd there is a bug and the odule for virtualbox has not compiled and been added to the repositories. (more…)
Some time ago I wrote about getting my audible content into my ipod without using a window system. It was working fine until November last year and then it stoped working all together. No matter what I was doing and how i fiddled around with the settings, installed new programs or whatever i did. The files came down perfectly but I could not play them on my ipod.
What was happening (I think) is that audible has timed up with itunes for the ipod delivery and as the system is not seeing my ipod it defaults to remove the ipod from my device list after a while (some years or so). So the drm will not let me play it on my ipod. I was kind of crossed as I just bought 2 new books that was a continuation of a book i already read, and now I could not read (well listen) to them.
Jag har ju handelsbanken som bank (en av dom i alla fall) och i många år har jag kört, först vmware och sen virtualbox för att köra en emulerad XP för att kunna köra signerings/krypterings programvaran som dom använder. Det är ett certifikat som ligger på “datorn” – i mitt fall en emulerad pc med xp på, och som används för att logga in och för att signera saker, tex betalningar.
Men nu idag fick jag nya dosan och inloggningskortet från dom. Och om man vill använda USB och sladd så måste man installera programvara och drivrutiner för det, men jag brydde mej inte ens om att se om det kan fungera under linux utann kör den utan sladd. Det innebär att jag måste knappa lite mer men nu slipper jag att köra XP bara för den saken.
Hurra.
Last week i installed a new smoothwall firewall.
The old one we had at the summerhouse blow up last year – last weeks of the authum we where there and I did not have time then to fix it so I just took it home. After checking it now I did found out that the motherboard is probably fried and not the harddrive as I suspected, but I will have to do more investigation into this. I had more small boxes that can be used for this (the one we had in the house in uppsala could be reused) so i installed a new version of smoothwall on it. The old one was a Smoothwall Express 2 and there is a new version 3 out that I wanted to test.
I had the interesting shore of making a pdf published on a web page. The PDF was a fax and it had both the real page and a start page showing from and to as you usually do in a fax, but that first page was not interested at all to publish and I only wanted the second page.
What to do.
Well fist i did some googeling and found a god application for this. Its called PDFEdit and works perfectly.
So I installed it with:
sudo apt-get install pdfedit
And I had no problems opening the PDF – delete the 1 page and save it again. Wounderfull.
So yesterday the new version of Wine (the windows emulator for Linux) came out. I have not had very much problems with the old version 1.21, the only problem is that the autopatcher for new versions of EVE-Online did not work. And one person has reported that the only thing that was wrong with that was that the code was trying to call a function for setting the priority of the download and that was not implemented in Wine so the call returned an error and the download failed.
But he fixed that, wrote a small stub function that only returns OK, and that is now included in the 1.22 version so I would liked to have that going.
So i let the upgrade program do it works and had wine 1.22 running in no time.
Started up eve and “Oh No” – when I was inside the station i only had a black screen – no interior at all. So out in space and my show is permanently cloaked – even for me
So reading a bit in the forum it seems that this is a bug in the ATI driver and there is a patch for it, and apparently it should work on Nvidia cards. It might be the fact that i am running a bit old version of the Nvidia drivers. I am running the 169.12 version and the new version that is out is 180.51 so perhaps it is time to think of upgrading that, but as i am about to upgrade the whole system (I don’t like it and don’t have the time, but have to eventually) to the new version 9.04, I think I will do it then.
So now I need to downgrade to version 1.21 to have my game going as I whant it. I can live with the fact that I have to download the patches manually.
Downgrading wine
First i need to download the old version. You just go into the link on the wne HQ page and go to the Ubuntu pages and the old archives (here) and download the old version (1.21).
Then you install that with dpkg:
sudo dpkg --install wine_1.1.21~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Next thing you need to do is to lock the version. if you dont do that the system will upgrade wine next time you run the upgrade program. And you do that with:
echo wine hold | sudo dpkg --set-selections
And if you as me have Synaptic package manager installed, you can go in there and lock the version also.
This now get me a god working wine that pays my eve, and I have to live with the not working autopatcher for now.