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Ubuntu shutdown problem

May 3rd, 2008
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I had a liitle shutdown problem with my laptop which has ubuntu as OS.

If your ubuntu installation hangs on shutdown and you had NFS mounts, you'll probably solve it by following this guide: http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2008/03/10/ubuntu-shutdown-problem-cifs-related/

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Some other linux blogs

May 3rd, 2008
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Here is a list of some interesting blogs on Linux

http://blog.linuxoss.com/
http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/
http://vertito.blogspot.com/

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ZendStudio fails to start

April 30th, 2008
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My ZendStudio installation just failed to start with following error:

java: xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed.

Seems an error with the java installation and apparently a well known one.
So I issued the following lines from a shell

# cd /usr/local/Zend/ZendStudio-5.5.0/jre/lib/i386/xawt<br />
# cp libmawt.so libmawt.so.bak <br />
# sed -i ’s/XINERAMA/FAKEEXTN/g’ libmawt.so

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Play dvd iso image with xine

April 28th, 2008
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Havin' an iso image of the latest movie on dvd is all pretty well, but you still would like to see it. You could mount the image ()and let xine play the vob files or take advantage of the dvd:// capability of xine like this:

xine "dvd://path/to/your/file.iso"
 Even handier would be to have that command in your context popup (by right-click'ing the file). To have that in KDE, open up the directory "~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/" and make a xine_iso.desktop file with the following content.

[Desktop Entry]
ServiceTypes=application/x-iso
Actions=Xine ISO

[Desktop Action Xine ISO]
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=xine "dvd://%U"
Icon=exec
MimeType=application/x-iso
Name=Play DVD ISO with xine
 Now right-click an iso image file and look under "Actions"

Enjoy the movie!

More help on editing context menu's can be found at : http://legroom.net/2007/04/20/adding-custom-actions-kde-context-menus

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GMail has IMAP support

December 6th, 2007
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Gmail now also has IMAP support. That means you can leave your email on the servers of gmail, keeping it accessible through the browser and handle it your favorite email client at the same time.

The next article shows you how to configure KMail to get access to your gmail account. It isn't to hard to figure out what to do with the other email clients you might have running.
http://linux.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/howto-configuring-kmail-with-gmail-imap-and-disconnected-imap/

Should you need help for the other ones: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=75726

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