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 [...]

I successfully printed my first envelope on my Canon MP620. I used Open Office and this wiki article from openoffice.org. Al I needed to do extra is to choose the orientation icon like this. The rest was just to feed the envelope from the manual feeder Easy and recommended!

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 [...]

This is my favorite: If you press J and K on the email list or while reading the email, it moves between previous and next emails in the context. (just like in the vi ) While reading and email, if you press N it goes to the next email, P to the previous email. And [...]

I’ve been having hard time to understand the CDR reports from FreePBX. There were a lot of duplicates, lots of couple of second connection entries, etc… All I needed is to set a criteria and see the reports related to that criteria. So here is how it goes: I need only ANSWERED calls. I need [...]

I’ve been planning this for a while. I had written my own blog engine, it’s been bits and pices of code I’ve been patching to each other with band aid and chewing gum… It was good for late 90s and early 2000… However the net changed, I had to move on, I didn’t update my [...]

Eğer siz de benim gibi ailenize Amerika`dan ucuz laptoplar getirip ingilizce windows kullanmak zorunda kalıyorsanız, türkçe harfleri bazı durumlarda görüntülemeniz zor olabilir. Bu durumlar için çok basit bir çözüm var. Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options seçeneğine gidin. Açılan pencerede Advanced sekmesine klikleyin. Language for non Unicode programs kısmında ise Turkish seçin. [...]

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

Problem: I have a CSV file where I have source and destination IPs. I want to resolve only destination IPs. Format of my CSV file: (let`s call it test.csv) (it`s tab separated…) 99.88.77.66 11.22.33.44 118340.86 187 The solution is pretty simple with python: #!/usr/bin/env python import csv import socket reader = csv.reader(open(“./test.csv”, “rb”), delimiter=” “) [...]