Hayden’s Blog

http://jaka.kubje.org/2007/05/14/unix-samba-password-sync-on-debian-etch/

This URL explains how to use pam_smbpass to allow synchronization of Samba passwords with actual Linux account passwords — making things infinitely easier for me.

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Setting default browser using *gconftool* (Gnome 2.0/2.2)
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You will need GConf (and the gconf daemon running) to set this. If you
do *not* have the Gnome Control Center installed, there is a way to set
this using GConf directly:

See, which values are stored in that sub-tree. Save the output to a
file, so you can revert to those settings!

$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/unknown
command = mozilla %s
need-terminal = false
enabled = true

Now, this should enter all those values (at least, they work for me):

$ gconftool-2 –set –type=string
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/unknown/command ‘mozilla %s’
$ gconftool-2 –set –type=bool
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/unknown/need-terminal false
$ gconftool-2 –set –type=bool
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/unknown/enabled true

Setting default browser using *gconftool* (Gnome 2.4/2.6)
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This is basically the as above, just some GConf key change:

The relevant key on Gnome 2.4 has changed, but is pretty much similar.
Simply substitute “unknown” by “http”, especially in the commands to set
the values.
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http

Also, the “https” branch may be useful. However, this is *not* set using
the GUI method mentioned above.

sloik2004 Lab Notes

Found out how to do it here, it’s pretty straightforward:

http://techpatterns.com/forums/about865.html

1. Open up kde control center. [ the k/s button on task bar], select control center.
2. Select ‘Regional & Accessibility
3. click on keyboard layout
4. click on the ‘Xbd Options’ tab, then scroll down the list to: Compose key position. Make sure that Compose Key Position is checked. Now go down and check either right or left Win-key is compose. This will now enable functionality for the windows key, which otherwise isn’t used in linux/kde for much.

You have now enabled a key to control the creation of special characters, and you create those by doing the following:

Hit the windows key you selected, right or left one, one time, do not keep it depressed, then use the following combinations, after you release the windows key:

• ?? = ¿
• !! = ¡
• ‘e = é
• ‘a = á
• ‘i = í
• ‘o = ó
• ‘u = ú
• `a = à and so on…
• “u = ü
• << = «
• >> = »
• ^a = â
• ,c = ç
• ~n = ñ
• (c = ©
• (r = ®

There’s a big list of characters you can type here:

http://www.astro.ufl.edu/it/docs/intl-keyboard.html

sloik2004 Lab Notes, Uncategorized

This is going to bug me for days on end. Electricutioner came in to my Tribes 2 server today and informed me of a “minor oversight” he discovered in my mod. He proceeded to give me a series of hints, and respond to my incorrect guesses. A very, very shortened chat log follows:

{NOS}Electricutioner: Hah..

[Kr]_Sloik: ?

{NOS}Electricutioner: Oh… nothing.

{NOS}Electricutioner: At least.. nothing… major.

{NOS}Electricutioner: But none the less… amusing… I think.

[Kr]_Sloik: What are you referring to?

{NOS}Electricutioner: Just an… um… oversight… a laughable one.

[Kr]_Sloik: Could you give me a good hint?

{NOS}Electricutioner: No, but I’ll see how long it takes you to figure out.

{NOS}Electricutioner: And I’ll tell you when you fix the oversight.

{NOS}Electricutioner: Well, if it makes you feel better, I had a equally stupid oversight in ECM for about 4 years until Turkey told me.

[Kr]_Sloik: OK… code or construction error?

{NOS}Electricutioner: Code.

{NOS}Electricutioner: If you don’t get it in like 2 weeks… I’ll tell you.

{NOS}Electricutioner: Yeah… it’s so minor, you’re going to laugh and cry when you figure it out.

{NOS}Electricutioner: Oh, and I’ll give you a hint. It has been around for about… three weeks or so.

He speaks in riddles…

sloik2004 Lab Notes, My Games, Projects

It’s actually quite simple.

Create a .htaccess file in the directory with the following contents:

AuthUserFile /directory/containing/.htpasswd

AuthName “Title for Protected Site”

AuthType Basic

Require valid-user

To create the .htpasswd file, simple use the following command:

htpasswd2 -c .htpasswd hayden

And it will create the appropriate .htpasswd file in the directory you are in.

sloik2004 Lab Notes

This guide is WONDERFUL for this problem.

http://www.susegeek.com/wireless/unable-to-set-atheros-wireless-card-with-madwifi-in-opensuse-110/

sloik2004 Lab Notes

I too was vexed by this problem. My preferred soundcard is my SBLive! but I use the VIA chipset based soundcard on my motherboard for VoIP stuff. Kubuntu was always making my VIA soundcard the default.

The solution is a bit obscure but it works.

Do:

sudo asoundconf list

I got back:

Names of available sound cards:
Live
V8237

I then did:

sudo asoundconf set-default-card Live

followed by a reboot to test.

Sure enough, the Live is now set to default. It’d be nice if there was a simple config app in the KDE configuration panel that did this.

sloik2004 Lab Notes

I’ve been messing with the bots in Tribes 2 a lot, and I’ve found these two documents to be somewhat helpful:

http://sloik.ezwebtogo.com/downloads/T2cmdlist.txt

http://sloik.ezwebtogo.com/downloads/botfuncs.txt

sloik2004 Lab Notes

Apparently the packager for MadWifi has messed up the version numbers for their OpenSuSE wifi driver packages.

A solution can be found below.

http://forums.opensuse.org/network-internet/wireless/386427-madwifi-kmp-issues-11-0-a.html

sloik2004 Lab Notes

To check the status of my server’s RAID array, I’ve found the following command to be useful:

# /sbin/mdadm --detail /dev/md0

sloik2004 Lab Notes