[Linux] Journal.

Here’s a great link on network configuration.

When I logged into gaim today it says sametime protocol not found (again!) I ran gaim with debug and saw that there’s a version mismatch with libmwgaim.so which belongs to gaim-meanwhile package. I downloaded and installed the new version gaim-meanwhile 0.80 from meanwhile project. Now it works

We’ve setup smbclient on the linux laptop to mount shared folders on the remote windows machine.

First install smbclient in linux. Then on the windows machine enable sharing under properties of the folders you want to share, set password and change username to single word if necessary (linux doesn’t like username containing spaces).

Now in linux check [...]

Finally! Gnome has integrated the system menu into the logout prompt, so now when you logout of a gnome session it asks if you want to logout / shutdown / restart / or suspend your computer.

There’s a cool svn plugin for eclipse, what’s even cooler is that you can add its update site http://subclipse.tigris.org/update to 3.0 eclipse update manager so new versions can be easily checked and upgraded for you.

WSDD is based on eclipse 2.1, so to enable svn support all you need to download the zip file for 2.1 [...]

I wanted to protect my work associated blogs with password. I remember doing this with .htaccess files when I was back in university so I checked up on it again. It seems that .htaccess files should only be used if you don’t have access to the server configuration file. The preferred way is to [...]