There’s some really neat software for Adobe AIR, especially Twitter clients like Spaz or TweetDeck are really cool. However, I had several hiccups which I hope finally found a solution for.
- The pages claim you need to install manually under Linux. That’s not true (anymore?). I’ve been perfectly able to install TweetDeck, Spaz an Thwirl directly from the homepage.
- TweetDeck starts and shows its three columns but I can’t log in or do anything else.
- Spaz starts with a black window and just hangs.
It seems, that the two last problems somehow relate to the secure saving of login credentials (Encrypted Local Storage: ELS). Anyway the solution is pretty easy: Delete ~/.appdata/ and everything works. Well, you lose all your settings, so maybe try to delete ~/.appdata/Adobe/AIR/ELS first. :) If it doesn’t help, delete the whole Adobe directory. If this doesn’t help too, kill the directory of the application (eg. ~/.appdata/Spaz.AIR.SOMELONGIDSTRING).
Hope that helps!
My system: Ubuntu 8.10 and Flash 10.
Computer air, linux
I use Fedora mostly because of the easy possibility of installing it on fake RAIDs. My current computer has been installed with Fedora Core 7 and updated flawlessly until FC10…but now the party is over: The installer doesn’t recognize my RAID.
That’ll be fun. :(
Computer fedora, linux
Recently I wanted to give KDE 4 under FC9 a try so I selected it in GDM and…it started and crashed or shut down X11 after a few seconds. The log said:
Could not connect to D-Bus server: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoServer: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-SNOAwzQuQa: Verbindungsaufbau abgelehnt
startkde: Shutting down...
kdeinit4_wrapper: Warning: connect(/home/hynek/.kde/socket-wally.ws.vrmd.de/kdeinit4__0) failed: : No such file or directory
Error: Can not contact kdeinit4!
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
However, it’s misleading. With the help of my old friend Nils I found the solution: There must not be a line Option "BackingStore" "true" in the configuration of the graphics card. If it has, comment it out and it should work fine.
See also Nils’ blog entry.
Computer fedora, linux
Yesterday I had a works outing with my boss at the “LinuxTag”, which was together with the “IT Profits”. The second one was a general IT congress but somehow full of half-governmental companies which can’t IMHO be profitable.
The “LinuxTag” on the other hand was okay, but small. I’ve seen all the typical nerds (dudes, it’s okay to be a nerd, but there’s no reason to smell like a hobo!) and most prominent open source projects were there…along with FSF, O’Reilly, IBM, SUN, Immendio (too bad my old IRC acquaintance Hallski wasn’t there :( ), Trolltech etc.
Trolltech introduced their Greenphone which was pretty unimpressive (the menus for example were painfully slow), SUN advertised their own compilers and IBM was there with a scary horde of tie-wearing consulticks. Anyway.
All in all it was rather small and boring. Haven’t seen any real “stars” there just masses of smelly nerds wearing “Stasi 2.0″ t-shirts (it stopped to be funny with the 42th) and Hot Dogs for 3 €…good I had free admittance. ;)
Computer linux, open source
I need it too seldom to memorize, so here’s how to quickly transform a linux box into a router:
On the router:
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
On the client:
(route del default)
route add default gw *ip of the router*
Computer linux
Seriously, if there is a thing that’s still a real pain in Linux, then it’s W-LAN. I’ve got a DWL-G122 rev. C1 (ie. rt73 chipset) from D-Link and intended to simply use it…I shall wonder. When searching for how to make it work, I found aprox. five ways. While there are more lucky ones, none of them worked for me. By now, I made it working so I’m going to document how I achieved a W-LAN connection with WPA-PSK.
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Computer linux, ubuntu
I have to admit that I haven’t the best opinion about wine. It doesn’t matter whether Wine or Cedega, everything just crashed with strange exceptions. The only piece of software I’ve been using successfully with Wine is SubRip (and the GUI is slightly flawed when used with Wine).
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Computer linux, windows
I’ve got a “Cherry CyMotion Master XPress multimedia keyboard and am very content with it, it’s very robust and it’s pretty quiet. There was only one thing that spoiled my confidence: Some multimedia keys worked only if I didn’t use the correct keyboard variant! But when using the wrong one, other keys stopped to work.
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Computer linux
When several persons are logged in at one (FC5) workstation, the first one hogs the permissions of all devices: Sound, DVD-ROM, camera…everything works only for the first one. This leads to ugly re-logins and is extremely annoying.
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Computer fedora, linux
Who exactly said that debian is secure? Their whole security related behaviour looks pathetic to me and I’m only partly talking about their belief, that “only old software is good software”. The problem is more of a human kind: Their security policies and procedures aren’t up-to-date to say it mildly.
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Computer debian, linux, open source, security