As I said in my post earlier I have upgraded to Kubuntu 10.10 from 9.10. When I did the install i thought I did set Swedish as the default except for languages. I hate to have commands replying back in Swedish and so, but I still prefer things to be in Swedish, like money and date format and so on. But apparently I missed something.
As I said in my post erlier I have upgraded to Kubuntu 10.10 from 9.10. And now This post will be ablut getting the Propriatary nvidia driver to work. This is a nust if you whant to get Desktop effects, and wine and graphical games to work. (more…)
About 2 weweks ago i had a crash on my old machine. The graphics card crashed and I was left with a unusable laptop. Not nice. So I got a new laptop, and moved all stuff over there. I have a system for backup so that the harddrive is backed up every night over rsync to our big backupservers in UK so backup was not a problem.
I have been fighting my phone for some time. I wanted to send files from my phone to my pc and not to have to send them up to facebook or something stupid like that first.
And I haven’t managed. I have done some search but not found anything really good telling my why it will not work.
But today i found it.
I have been using twitter. You I know its perhaps sad, but I have started a bit on that road. I have been using the application choqok in Linux to post on my twitter page.
But the last 2 or 3 weeks I have seen a Auth popup asking for my twitter api key/password. And as I didn’t know what this was I did not fill in any information.
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.
