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

Test from n900

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

February 23, 2010 · 1 min · Nick

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

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 and anyone NOT in that list that is plugged in can make monkeys dance on your face or lights flash. This is not complicated people!

February 22, 2010 · 1 min · Nick