For me to remember

Better text for windows

2012-04-10T15:49:00.001+00:00

If you have ever used Mac OS or any Linux distro, you may have notice that all text looks much nicer then in windows. That is because Mac and Linux renders text differently then windows, so the text looks nicer.

To get this nicer text you need to install another text render for windows. gdipp is a little project to replace the windows text render and get a nicer more smother looking text for windows. Like this example from the project page shows.

Windows normal text render

Windows text render with gdipp

Download like: http://code.google.com/p/gdipp/

Notes:

This project is still in the works, so there are some problems. just uninstall if you fiend some problems in programs that you use daily,
Needs a restart to full efface.
gdipp will not work with google chrome or chromium. The text will be unreadable. (as of writing)

Taps for windows explorer

2012-04-09T18:56:00.003+00:00

In windows it can some times be a little hard and annoying to navigate when you have more then one folder open at time. But with just one little program you can add tap navigation to windows.

That little program is QTTabBar. After installing it you will have taps for your windows manager.


Windows with taps

So now that you have taps in your windows manager there are some things that you might like to know.

To open a new tap you can use "ctrl + N" that clones the tap that you are in or you can use the middle mouse button (the scroll wheel) to open a folder in a new tap.

Organizing Digital TV-show Collection

2012-01-24T11:15:00.000+00:00

To day many people have all there DVDs or blu-rays ripped to there hard drive and with that comes the problem of organizing that collection. this problem is specially with TV shows that have many episodes and you want them all to have the right name and number, but it looks something like this.

So to day I'm going to show you how to organize your collection the easy way with a TVrename.

TVrename uses the TheTVDB database to find information on shows and rename them so that they have proper episode name and number.

download TVrename here

Now that you have installed TVrename and started it you can star to organize your collection.

First thing that you need to do is to got to Tools then Folder Monitor

Now you get a new window. In this window you add the folder with your collection.
Here I have added my folder TV and in there is my collection of TV shows.

So all I need to do now is to click the Check >> button and TVrename will look for Shows in that my TV folder.

Here TVrename found Family Guy. Here I see that the folder structure is flat, that means that all my episodes are just in that folder, not folder per season. I also see that there is no thetvdb code, so we need to find that.

there are to ways to find the thetvdb code. you can just press the Auto ID All button and TVrename will search and id all the shows. this works most of the time, but not all ways. So if auto id fails you can all ways just double click the show in the list and search manually.

If I'm sure that this is the right show, all I need to do is to click Add & Close.

Now that the show is in My Shows list, all I need to right click and click Scan "Family Guy" TVrename will then search the folder and list all the episodes that are in that folder an need name fixing.

Now the only thing left is to click Do Checked to rename the episodes and TVrename will rename all the episodes that are checked.

End after that my collection looks like this.

Now this looks much better then it did. Now I have the episodes in the right order and name to. Now it's much easier to make a play list or have them on a media center.

note:

TVrename only uses the name of the folder and the name of the file, so if the file has no numbering or just wrong name from the start TVrename can not fix that.
there are some shows that may have wrong info or just no info at all in thetvdb and there is not much that you can do about that. but if you want to you can create account there and edit or add information on that show.

Beautiful conky

2010-11-24T16:25:00.010+00:00

Conky is a light white system monitor that can display system status on your desktop. Not only can you display system status, but you can also setup conky to show the weather, torrents, and mail.

If you don't have conky installed click here

When you start conky for the first time you get this ugly setup of your system stats. But thats ok, you can easily configure conky the way you want it to.

for example this is my conky

Has you can see it shows some of my system stats, but that is easy to get. The trick is more in the way it is displayed, not what stats are displayed.

First thing you need to do, is to create the config file

cd $home

gedit .conkyrc

Now that is done, you need to create the frame that conky will display your stats. Just copy past in to your config file (.conkyrc)

use_xft yes
xftfont Sans:size=8
alignment top_right
xftalpha 0.8
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
maximum_width 300
minimum_size 220 5
double_buffer yes
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
stippled_borders 10
border_margin 4
border_width 1
default_shade_color grey
default_outline_color black
default_color white
no_buffers yes
uppercase no

This will create a frame that is invisible and in the left top corner.

Now for this conky to run smoothly there are some requirements, nothing big, just some fonts end another monitoring application. The fun thing with conky is the you can also set it to display other monitoring applications outputs.

fonts are

PizzaDude Bullets
StyleBats
Open Logos
Weather
RsbillsDng

Applications

lm-sensors
hddtemp

After you have installed the fonts and the applications you can setup the rest of the config

TEXT

${font openlogos:size=17}u${font} ${kernel}
${font StyleBats:size=18}P${font} Uptime: ${uptime_short}
${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=18}p${font} ${time %A %d %B}

${font StyleBats:size=18}A${font} CPU ${cpu}%
${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=16}J${font} MEMORY $mem / $memmax
${font StyleBats:size=18}4${font} HDD ${fs_used /} / ${fs_size /}

${font RsbillsDng:size=18}4${font} BATTERY ${battery BAT1}

${font weather:size=28}x${font} HDD ${hddtemp /dev/sda} C
${font weather:size=28}z${font} CPU ${execi 10 sensors | grep "Core 0" | cut -d"+" -f2 | cut -c1-2} C

${if_gw}${if_existing /sys/class/net/wlan0/operstate up}
${font StyleBats:size=16}N${font} SIGNAL ${wireless_link_qual_perc wlan0}%

${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=16}v${font} UP ${upspeed wlan0}/s
${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=16}r${font} DOWN ${downspeed wlan0}/s

${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=16}M${font} TOTAL UP ${totalup wlan0}
${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=16}S${font} TOTAL DOWN ${totaldown wlan0}
${else if_existing wlan0}
${font StyleBats:size=16}N${font} SIGNAL Cabale

${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=16}v${font} UP ${upspeed eth0} / s
${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=16}r${font} DOWN ${downspeed eth0} / s

${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=16}M${font} TOTAL UP ${totalup eth0}
${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=16}S${font} TOTAL DOWN ${totaldown eth0}
${endif }
${else if_gw}${color red}
${font PizzaDude Bullets:size=16}4${font} NO NETWORK
$color
${endif if_gw}

This is the main text, this is what your conky will display and in what way. Now when you run this you will get a conky just like mine.

Some tricks.
Conky can just displays text, so to get some beautiful conky you use some tricks.

Like the symbols in front, they are just fonts. So if you want to use some other symbols, thats easy. just find some font with symbols that you want.

For example I want to have the intell logo so show what possessor I have. I download a font named "Illustrate IT" and see that intell logo is "F"

${font Illustrate IT:size=18}F${font} ${cpu}%

This will look something like this. Intell logo and the possessor load

Now this is just an example of what the conky can look like. But with this information you can create your own in no time. I recommend looking here to see what more stats can be displayed and also just googleing "Conky confing".

Setup conky

2010-11-20T23:47:00.008+00:00

Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. Conky is licensed under the GPL and runs on Linux and BSD.

http://conky.sourceforge.net/

To install conky just open the terminal end type

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install conky

Now that you have conky in installed you can start it to see if it works

conky

It should start, but the default conky is pretty ugly. So to get a better conky navigate to your home folder and create a new conky config

cd $home

gedit .conkyrc

Now you can write your own conky config

Fix Ubuntu window buttons

2010-11-19T13:49:00.011+00:00

In ubuntu 10.xx you you might have noticed that the window buttons have gone mac.

So all you need to do to fix this is to enter this command in terminal all your all set

gconftool-2 -t str -s /apps/metacity/general/button_layout "menu:maximize,minimize,close"

Or like windows

gconftool-2 -t str -s /apps/metacity/general/button_layout "menu:minimize,maximize,close"

And thats it, now you have your controls on the right side.

Setup Ifolder server on Ubuntu 10.10

2010-11-19T00:33:00.012+00:00

iFolder is a simple and secure storage solution that can increase your productivity by enabling you to back up, access and manage your personal files-from anywhere, at any time. Once you have installed iFolder, you simply save your files locally-as you have always done-and iFolder automatically updates the files on a network server and delivers them to the other machines you use.

http://ifolder.com/ifolder

Ifolder is normally only for OpenSuSE but you can setup ifolder server on Ubuntu.

Resources
This guide is bast on this tow guides:
how-to-install-ifolder-on-ubuntu-server
ifolder-on-opensuse-11-3

Requirements

Ubuntu 10.04 or 10.10
Apache server

To install apache server and configure or ssl, just open terminal and type

sudo apt-get install apache2

sudo a2enmod ssl

sudo a2ensite default-ssl

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Now you have apache server and configured for ssl.

Ok, now that you have a running apache server lets start the ifolder-server install.

Install ifolder-server
1. Install dependencies (don't know if you need them all)

sudo apt-get install build-essential automake autoconf mono-complete liblog4net1.2-cil uuid-dev libxml2-dev mono-apache-server mono-apache-server2 gsoap libapache2-mod-mono libncurses-dev libtool g++-4.3 gcc-4.3

2. Download packages

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ifolder/iFolder%20Server/3.8.0.3/11.1/ifolder3-enterprise-3.8.0.10191.1-5.1.i586.rpm

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ifolder/iFolder%20Server%20Plugins/3.8.0.3/11.1/novell-ifolder-enterprise-plugins-3.8.0.10191.1-3.2.i586.rpm

wget http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.3/repo/oss/suse/noarch/log4net-1.2.10-58.1.noarch.rpm

3. install alien and convert rpm's to dab

sudo apt-get install alien

sudo alien --scripts *.rpm

4. install packages

sudo dpkg -i ifolder3-enterprise-3.8.0.10191.1-5.1.i586.dab

sudo dpkg -i novell-ifolder-enterprise-plugins-3.8.0.10191.1-3.2.i586.dab

5. install log4net

sudo apt-get remove liblog4net1.2-cil

sudo dpkg -i log4net-1.2.10-58.1.noarch.dab

5. Restart apache and verify everything is

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

6. Now you need to setup Simias but first we need to get some information. run this and see what you get.

id www-data

My output was:

uid=33(www-data) gid=33(apache) groups=33(apache)

Now that tells me that user "www-data" is in group "apache". this is something that you need to remember.

7. Now configure Simias

sudo /usr/bin/simias-server-setup

This is the answers that I gave.

SIMIAS SERVER SETUP

This script configures a server installation of Simias to setup a new Simias system.

----- SERVER'S DATA PATH -----
Path to the server's data files

Server's Data Path? [/var/simias/data]:

----- SERVER NAME -----
The name of this server

Server Name? [Host1]:

----- SSL -----
Select SSL/NONSSL communication for this server. Options
are SSL, NONSSL or BOTH

SSL? [SSL]:

----- PUBLIC URL -----
Public URL of this Simias Server

Public URL? [https://192.168.1.65/simias10]:

----- PRIVATE URL -----
Private URL of this Simias Server

Private URL? [https://192.168.1.65/simias10]:
----- SLAVE SERVER -----
Install into existing Simias Domain

Slave Server? [N]:

----- SYSTEM NAME -----
A name used to identify the Simias system to users.

System Name? [iFolder]:

----- SYSTEM DESCRIPTION -----
A detailed description of the Simias system for users.

System Description? [iFolder Enterprise System]:

----- USE KEY RECOVERY AGENT -----
Use Key Recovery Agents to recovery the encryption
key if the user forgets the pass-phrase used for encryption?

Use Key Recovery Agent? [Y]:
----- RECOVERY AGENT CERTIFICATE PATH -----
Path to the Recovery agent certificate's.

Recovery Agent Certificate Path? [/var/simias/data]:

----- USE LDAP -----
Use LDAP to provision and authenticate users?

Use LDAP? [Y]: NO

----- SYSTEM ADMIN -----
The Simias default administrator. If the system is
configured to use an external identity source, the
distinguished name (dn) should be used.

System Admin? [admin]: System Admin Password? [novell]:

----- CONFIGURE APACHE -----
Configure Simias to run behind Apache

Configure Apache? [N]: YES

----- APACHE USER -----
Apache User

Apache User? [wwwrun]: www-data

----- APACHE GROUP -----
Apache Group

Apache Group? [www]: apache

Working...

Configuring /var/simias/data/simias/Simias.config...
SetupSimias - Done
Configuring /etc/apache2/conf.d/simias.conf...
Done
Configuring User Movement plugin..

Setting up Log4Net file...
Done
Setting up permissions...
Done

SUCCESS

Now the setup asks for apache user and group and that is what you found out earlier.
For server name you can have what you want, but I just used default.
For system admin password you can pick your own, I just used default.

8. Correct the mod_mono path

sudo sed -i 's/apache2\/mod_mono.conf/apache2\/mods-enabled\/mod_mono.conf/g' /etc/apache2/conf.d/simias.conf

9. Fix some paths

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gmcs2 /usr/bin/gmcs
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/.config/.mono/

10. Fix some paths. Same here has with the Simias configure, need to answer the apache user and group with you got from "id www-data"

sudo chown -R www-data:apache /var/www/.config/

11. Restart apache and verify it is still restarting

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

12. Run the setups for ifolder. Same here has with the Simias configure, need to answer the apache user and group with you got from "id www-data"

sudo /usr/bin/ifolder-admin-setup

sudo /usr/bin/ifolder-web-setup

13. Correct again mod_mono path

sudo sed -i 's/apache2\/mod_mono.conf/apache2\/mods-enabled\/mod_mono.conf/g' /etc/apache2/conf.d/ifolder_admin.conf

sudo sed -i 's/apache2\/mod_mono.conf/apache2\/mods-enabled\/mod_mono.conf/g' /etc/apache2/conf.d/ifolder_web.conf

14 Enable rewrite

sudo a2enmod rewrite

15 Restart apache

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

16. Now just go to ifolder admin page and create some accounts and have fun.

https://"youre IP"/admin or https://localhost/admin

here is a screen shot form the ifolder admin log in page

Note:

If you get "This Connection is Untrusted" just add exception
I have not got the Ifolder client to run on linux, but this works grade with windows client.

Install Ubuntu from USB

2010-11-19T00:09:00.008+00:00

This is what you do to install Ubuntu from USB.

First you have to download the iso from Ubuntu.

Then you need to download Universal USB Installer.

Now you need a USB-stick larger then 1 Gb.

Run Universal USB Installer, click I Agree and set your settings.

Step 1: From the drop down menu select your Ubuntu version

Step 2: The browse for the iso you downloaded

step 3 : pick your USB-stick. you will have only one to pick form if you have only one in the computer.

Now just click create. This will take some time.

And you are ready to install Ubuntu form USB, just remember to boot from USB Device and the follow the instructions