If you need to run native Linux client for Lotus Notes 8.5 on Ubuntu 10.04: 1) After installing your ibm_lotus_notes*.deb files, drop the following files under /opt/ibm/lotus/notes libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0 libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 You can get the files here. 2) Install msttcorefonts package: sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts 3) Go to File -> Preferences and choose Windows and [...]

First of all, setting up screensaver configurations in gnome is a total mess. I don’t know why they decided to release and use gnome-screensaver instead of using xscreensaver. And I don’t want to know either. My ubuntu setup is an archaic one. It’s an upgrade over an upgrade over an upgrade. I probably upgraded 4 [...]

Nokia released a 16 MB minor release for the n900. The firmware version is: 3.2010.02-8 I had some issues with the update. I basically ran out of rootfs disk space. The update application complains as: Not enough space in location. For me disabling all the extra repositories and running apt-get clean; apt-get autoremove did the [...]

This battery life situation is kinda pissing me off. I wrote a script to get charge, battery %, and cpu load. Made it run every 10 mins to collect the data. I unplugged the phone at 9:40 am. No 3g, no wireless, very few interaction. About 10-20 mins phone conversation. And at 15:30 the battery [...]

Background information: All and all I’m definitely a Linux person. That means my expectations from n900 was primarily to be hackable I’m also coming from the world of blackberry. My previous hand-held was 8320. Other than being an extremely well designed smart-phone for business and email, it was pretty much useless for me. In this [...]

I’m writing this entry to push me to finish my neverending story about the digital frame project I started. I’m hoping that the entry will give me some sort of ignition after more than a year. I had an old Dell Latitude c600 sitting at home and collecting dust. Like many other old hardware I [...]

I needed to see a word file on my ssh session this time… If you have a similar need try to use antiword. It basically parses the word document and sends the output as a text file to your console. Of course don`t expect it to render the graphic files in your word document

Today I learned something new! I had two files one with a list of domain names, the other with corresponding IPs. I needed to merge these two files to display domain names next to their corresponding IPs. It looks like it`s the simplest task with the command paste.  All I had to do is: paste [...]

This is how you find all the domain controllers in Active Directory. dig +short srv _ldap._tcp.active.domain here .domain part is your domain. Ex: ad.us.domain.org