Apr 19

Using Thunderbird in Linux with Office 365

19 Apr 2012

My company is using Office 365, but as a software developer with a passion for *nix I really can’t live inside a windows environment. So for email use Thunderbird and the splendid Lightning addon together with a calendar provider for office 2010. It works great!

Thunderbird Lightning Calendar Office 2010

http://www.1st-setup.nl/wordpress/?page_id=133

Using calendars from Office 365

http://www.1st-setup.nl/wordpress/?wp_super_faq=add-a-microsoft-office-365-calendar

Apr 27

Installing rmagick on ubuntu 10.04

27 Apr 2011

I just installed ruby and rmagick on an ubuntu 10.4 server. Got some errors during the installation and thought i should summarize the procedure here:

Install ruby

sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1 rubygems1.9.1

Install imagemagick

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

Tried to install rmagick

sudo gem install rmagick

Got this error:

ERROR:  Error installing rmagick:
	ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
 
/usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 extconf.rb
extconf.rb:1:in `require': no such file to load -- mkmf (LoadError)
	from extconf.rb:1:in `<main>'
</main>

Found this page, which pointed med to install ruby1.9.1-dev package.

sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-dev

Ok, trying again to install rmagick

sudo gem install rmagick

Got this error:

ERROR:  Error installing rmagick:
	ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
 
/usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 extconf.rb
checking for Ruby version >= 1.8.5... yes
checking for gcc... yes
checking for Magick-config... no
Can't install RMagick 2.13.1. Can't find Magick-config in /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more
details.  You may need configuration options.

Found this question on superuser.com which pointed me to install the libmagickwand-dev-package.

sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev

Finally, another attempt to install rmagick

sudo gem install rmagick
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Successfully installed rmagick-2.13.1
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for rmagick-2.13.1...
Updating class cache with 0 classes...
Installing RDoc documentation for rmagick-2.13.1...

Success!

Feb 23

Wireless streaming from Spotify to PS3

23 Feb 2011


After many hours trying to get wireless streaming from Spotify to Playstation 3, I finally found a working solution on Linux (ubuntu).

My setup:

I used the solution described in this blog.

But I failed miserable with only streaming the echoes of silence…

Then I found another Spotify streaming blog post, only this time for squeezebox.

This inspired me to try the same trick creating a PulseAudio null-sink.

pactl load-module module-null-sink sink_name=spotify

Setting the sound output to the new sink:

install the lame encoding library to be able to stream mp3:

sudo aptitude install gstreamer10.0-plugins-ugly-multiverse

make sure icecast is running

/etc/init.d/icecast2 start

and then fire up a mp3 stream:

gst-launch-0.10 pulsesrc device=spotify.monitor ! audioconvert ! lame bitrate=320 mode=stereo ! shout2send ip=localhost port=8000 password=PASSWORD mount=spotify.mp3

I then added the following line to my WEB.conf in the ps3mediaserver root folder:

audiostream.Web=Spotify,http://localhost:8000/spotify.mp3

Now start up your PS3 and PS3 Media Server. On your PS3 go to the ‘Audio’ section, select ‘PS3 Media Server’, Web-folder and Spotify. Be patient it takes a couple of seconds before it starts.

Jan 05

Supaplex – Murphy is back!

5 Jan 2011

Just surfing around and found a good old game, Supaplex. Don’t know how many hours me and my buddies spent playing this fantastic game.

I downloaded the game from this site, but also check out this page for more information about the game.

Screenshot of Supaplex gameplay

I’m running ubuntu on my machine and I just installed dosbox

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apt-get install dosbox

Fired it up and mounted my game directory by typing

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mount c /home/henning/Games

Now just launch spfix63.exe and your in for some fun!

Apr 12

My password change routines in Ubuntu

12 Apr 2010

I change my passwords on a regular basis, and this is my routine for changing passwords everywhere.

Generate new password
henning@localhost:~$ pwgen

Change Ubuntu keyring password
henning@localhost:~$ seahorse
Select ‘Passwords’-tab, right click on ‘Passwords’-folder and select ‘Change password’ .

Change ssh passphrase
henning@localhost:~$ ssh-keygen -p

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