Category: Ubuntu

Convert mailman translation to UTF-8

Why is the Swedish translation in ISO8859-1? Sooooo 20th century! 🙂 Templates cd /usr/share/mailman/sv for f in *; do mv $f $f.old; iconv -f iso8859-1 -t utf-8 $f.old > $f done rm *.old Translations cd /var/lib/mailman/messages/sv/LC_MESSAGES mv mailman.po mailman.po.original iconv -f iso8859-1 -t utf-8 mailman.po.original > mailman.po msgfmt mailman.po -o mailman.mo /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py DEFAULT_CHARSET = ‘utf-8’… Continue reading Convert mailman translation to UTF-8

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New hardware ordered: printer and kitchen computer

The kitchen computer project will be powered by a black ASUS EeeBox B203! The ancient 800 MHz (VIA Samuel 2 crap CPU) Mini-ITX machine I use for the prototype is very slow, has issues with the USB network adapter (NetGear WG111v3, ID 0846:4260),  and freezes occasionally so it will be retired soon! I will try… Continue reading New hardware ordered: printer and kitchen computer

Firefox 3.0 freezes waiting to resolve safebrowsing-cache.google.com in DNS

My current daytime setup is for various reasons a Windows XP installation with Ubuntu Jaunty running inside VirtualBox. I use Microsoft Windows for Outlook, SQL Navigator and some web browsing while using the Linux installation for development. This morning I started Firefox in Windows XP, changed focus to VirtualBox or some other window, and when… Continue reading Firefox 3.0 freezes waiting to resolve safebrowsing-cache.google.com in DNS

Google Talk in Pidgin working behind enterprisey proxy

When I configured Pidgin 2.5.5 to use talk.google.com as Jabber server, the proxy said: HTTP/1.1 403 This URL is explicitly denied from being proxied Fortunately it was a very stupid proxy, so resolving talk.google.com to an IP address worked fine! Here is the advanced settings screen for the working connection:

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To upgrade or not to upgrade?

I have updated a couple of my Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) installations to Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) but not yet my primary laptop. I was about to do that tonight (isn’t starting something at 22:00 a grea idea?) but the upgrade procedure showed me the message below, making me postpone the upgrade and write this blog post… Continue reading To upgrade or not to upgrade?