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OpenVPN Install Ubuntu 9.10

By Nick On 2010/02/27 · · In Personal, Techie

A good buddy of mine, Trevor, had mentioned wanting to bridge his Brother‘s and his networks. Having done an OpenVPN install many moons ago it had resonated with the “I need to do that again” list in my head. When the N900 arrived it seemed like the perfect opportunity to have [...]

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N900 Banshee Fix

By Nick On 2010/02/24 · Leave a Comment · In Personal, Techie

You can compile the latest builds from Banshee if you’d like, but for those of you on older non-bleeding edge machines here is the .is_audio_player needed for HAL. Save on the root of your N900 device. This will place the files in the correct locations:

playback_mime_types=video/mp4-generic, video/quicktime, video/mp4, video/mpeg4, video/3gp, video/3gpp2, application/sdp, audio/3gpp, audio/3ga, audio/3gpp2, [...]

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Tomboy SSH Fix on Ubuntu 10.1 Lucid

By Nick On 2010/02/23 · · In Personal

I was getting the following error when trying to sync:

The keyring daemon is not available

FIX:

Install sshfs sudo apt-get install sshfs

Modify your tomboy start to:

eval `gnome-keyring-daemon` && export GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET && export GNOME_KEYRING_PID && tomboy –search

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Test from n900

By Nick On 2010/02/23 · Leave a Comment · In Personal

MaStory is a nice little blogging app. Testing xmlrpc with it

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DoD eases ban on thumb drive use for US military, our enemies rejoice

By Nick On 2010/02/22 · · In Techie

Engadget

via DoD eases ban on thumb drive use for US military, our enemies rejoice.

Media is the least of your concerns…If you are really concerned than goober up the USB ports with super glue. If you are running SNARE with USB monitoring it is very easy to add approved USB to a list [...]

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