So that I will not forget…

1. Download skype (rpm)
2. install:

   sudo yum install -y --nogpgcheck skype-2.2.0.35-fedora.i586.rpm 
   

3. install the following:

   sudo yum install -y libXv.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686
   

Run Skype…add me up: lawrence.salmingo

Update:

For inverted cameras:

yum install -y libv4l.i686 
export LIBV4LCONTROL_FLAGS=3
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype

So that I may not forget…

After downloading/extracting zimbra desktop from http://www.zimbra.com/products/desktop.html:

• Configure your user account:

       /opt/zimbra/zdesktop/linux/user-install.pl
     

• Install alsa-lib.i686:

      sudo yum install -y alsa-lib.i686
      

• Install compatibility support for older c++

      sudo yum install -y libstdc++.i686
      

Install current xulrunner (fresh install is xulrunner-7.0.1-1)

     sudo yum install -y xulrunner-7.0.1-1.fc16.i686
    

• Don’t forget yum install gtk2-engines.i686

      sudo yum install gtk2-engines.i686 -y
      

Double click on the icon on your desktop (~/Desktop/zd.desktop)

Hope This Helps

Renz.

So that I would remember

Add these to the <trac_env_dir>/conf/trac.ini

[components]
tracext.git.* = enabled
tracopt.ticket.commit_updater.committicketreferencemacro = enabled
tracopt.ticket.commit_updater.committicketupdater = enabled
mastertickets.* = enabled

After which, run the command:

trac-admin [path/to/trac] upgrade

This will upgrade the trac and install all the necessary modules

So that I would always remember:

From Here

This is a neat trick that I can use with terminals:

Put the commands below on your $HOME/.bashrc

SSH_ENV="$HOME/.ssh/environment"

function start_agent {
     echo "Initialising new SSH agent..."
     /usr/bin/ssh-agent | sed 's/^echo/#echo/' > "${SSH_ENV}"
     echo succeeded
     chmod 600 "${SSH_ENV}"
     . "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null
     /usr/bin/ssh-add;
}

# Source SSH settings, if applicable

if [ -f "${SSH_ENV}" ]; then
     . "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null
     #ps ${SSH_AGENT_PID} doesn't work under cywgin
     ps -ef | grep ${SSH_AGENT_PID} | grep ssh-agent$ > /dev/null || {
         start_agent;
     }
else
     start_agent;
fi 

And sure enough, if you log in, the pass key for your ssh-keys will be prompted. After which, you can use the keys without having to type the pass key everytime.

I almost not able to install Fedora 16 on this machine. Luckily, I found out through much google-ing that the backlight display of this machine dies out once the display driver is loaded. To fix this, you need to put these options in the kernel:

acpi_osi=”Linux” acpi_backlight=vendor

Put them once on the kernel line during installation, and then again on your grub.cfg in /boot/grub2 after installation.

Hope this helps.

There are times when you want to return XML file from a template in Django. Check out the following:

In your view, you should have:

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.template import loader, Context

def return_xml(request):
    t = loader.get_template("your_file.xml")
    c = Context( { "Message" : "Hello from XML"} )
    return HttpResponse(t.render(c), mimetype="text/xml")

And the following is your_file.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<node>
    <sub_node>{{Message}}</sub_node>
</node>

Hope this helps

It’s really a bad thing that this engine does not save article without checking Draft checkbox. It may be an error in configuration on my part, but I have to create something that will make it easier for me to publish things. I created a script (see jump) that will regularly update drafts into published items once (DATE) is reached.

Trying out byteflow blogging engine