Monthly Archives: October 2010

Added OpenID plugin for comments

Posted by on 10-Oct-10 No comments

I didn’t have a better way to screen comments before and I was going to try and avoid captcha stuff, so I have made it mandatory to be registered now, but allow for users to self-register with an OpenID account of their choosing.

Plugin Details

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/openid

VMWare Console from the web broken on Ubuntu 10.x 64 bit, so call it directly

Posted by on 10-Oct-10 No comments

Not rocket surgery but useful none the less, if you have upgraded to 64 bit or Ubuntu 10.x and found that you can no longer connect to your VMWare Server console in Firefox don’t get too bummed. The VMWare server will still let you install the plugin, it just will keep failing saying that the connection timed out…

So go ahead and install the console as usual and we will go ahead and call the vmware console extension directly and circumvent Firefox all together and avoid the issue :)

It’s pretty easy the executable is located inside your firefox profile directory, you just need to mark it and a few supporting files executable so it will run and voila!

This an example from one of my boxes.

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sgw@sobek:~$ chmod -R +x .mozilla/firefox/iez6qqlx.default/extensions/VMwareVMRC@vmware.com/

sgw@sobek:~$ .mozilla/firefox/iez6qqlx.default/extensions/VMwareVMRC@vmware.com/plugins/vmware-vmrc

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Reference:

http://communities.vmware.com/message/968826

AT&T VPN client on RHEL5

Posted by on 10-Oct-10 No comments

Get the latest agnclient rpm from AT&T:
ftp://ftp.attglobal.net/pub/custom/ibm_linux/
wget ftp://ftp.attglobal.net/pub/custom/ibm_linux/agnclient-1.0-2.0.1.3003.i386.rpm
Then install agnclient rpm with no dependencies:

rpm -ivh --nodeps agnclient-1.0-2.0.1.3003.i386.rpm

created symlinks

Here is my 5.0 install
[code]

[root@ratlsvr ~]# cd /opt/agns/lib
[root@ratlsvr lib]# ls -als
total 60
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 4 14:35 .
4 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Feb 4 14:32 ..
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Feb 4 14:32 libagnc.so.1 -> /opt/agns/lib/libagnc.so.1.0.0
40 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 40909 Feb 18 2008 libagnc.so.1.0.0
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Feb 4 14:32 libagnLogc.so.1 -> /opt/agns/lib/libagnLogc.so.1.0.0
12 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9671 Feb 18 2008 libagnLogc.so.1.0.0
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Feb 4 14:35 libcrypt.so.4 -> /usr/lib/libcrypt.so
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Feb 4 14:35 libcurl.so.3 -> /usr/lib/libcurl.so
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Feb 4 14:35 libssl.so.4 -> /usr/lib/libssl.so

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From my 5.5 machine:
[code]

[root@ratlsvr ~]# cd /opt/agns/lib
[root@ratlsvr lib]# ls -als
total 60
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 4 14:35 .
4 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Feb 4 14:32 ..
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Feb 4 14:32 libagnc.so.1 -> /opt/agns/lib/libagnc.so.1.0.0
40 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 40909 Feb 18 2008 libagnc.so.1.0.0
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Feb 4 14:32 libagnLogc.so.1 -> /opt/agns/lib/libagnLogc.so.1.0.0
12 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9671 Feb 18 2008 libagnLogc.so.1.0.0
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Feb 4 14:35 libcrypt.so.4 -> /usr/lib/libcrypt.so
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Feb 4 14:35 libcurl.so.3 -> /usr/lib/libcurl.so.3
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Feb 4 14:35 libssl.so.4 -> /lib/libssl.so.4

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updated /opt/agns/bin/NetVPN.sh

started services

/etc/init.d/agnclientd start
/etc/init.d/agnLogd start

/opt/agns/bin/NetVPN.sh

Now to connect run the CLI client or if you have X running the GUI should be working as well, enjoy!

Related/Reference

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jaunty/man1/dpkg.1.html

http://technobluez.blogspot.com/2009/11/installing-ubuntu-910-karmic-koala-in.html

Pitivi 0.13.5 is out but only for Ubuntu Maverick

Posted by on 10-Oct-10 No comments

Having some issues with Windows Media in Pitivi, looks like they fixed in in the next version but had to figure out how to get there from here…

I am not on Maverick yet so in order to get this to work on your lucid 10.04 box you need to add the gstreamer development sources to apt. Best instructions are on launchpad so I will not repeat them here:

https://launchpad.net/~gstreamer-developers/+archive/ppa

Do an update, upgrade cycle and get cooking with Pitivi 0.13.5 :)

Reference: