Sony Vaio P 788k Review

I hate long reviews, but the good gist below: Intel Atom Z supports VT instructions. Really neat to boot KVM up on a little netbook NetBooks are usually cheesy, this machine feels solid and well built. Sony does some nice engineering, but there in front of your face is a SD card and HG Duo… Battery life is OK, I am considering the extended the battery, but really don’t feel the need based on the 3 hours I get now Verizon built in is awesome! Riding the metro into work today I was on IRC (irc.freenode.net) loving life. On the way home I fired up a skype session with no issue No good: ...

March 22, 2010 · 1 min · Nick

Fix for GNOME Keyring prompt on Autologin

Autologin in Ubuntu 9.10 would not default unlock your keyring for security I assume. If I am using autologin, chances are security isn’t high on the list and speed is… sudo vi /etc/pam.d/gdm-autologin and add the italic lines below #%PAM-1.0 auth requisite pam_nologin.so auth required pam_env.so readenv=1 auth required pam_env.so readenv=1 envfile=/etc/default/locale auth required pam_permit.so auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so @include common-account session [success=ok ignore=ignore module_unknown=ignore default=bad] pam_selinux.so close session required pam_limits.so ...

March 21, 2010 · 1 min · Nick

OpenVPN Install Ubuntu 9.10

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 the n900 use a VPN tunnel to secure traffic while on open AP. Here is my config: ...

February 27, 2010 · 5 min · Nick

N900 Banshee Fix

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, audio/amr, audio/x-amr, audio/mpa, audio/mp3, audio/x-mp3, audio/x-mpg, audio/mpeg, audio/mpeg3, audio/mpg3, audio/mpg, audio/mp4, audio/m4a, audio/aac, audio/x-aac, audio/mp4a-latm, audio/wav ...

February 24, 2010 · 1 min · Nick

Tomboy SSH Fix on Ubuntu 10.1 Lucid

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

February 23, 2010 · 1 min · Nick