Trying to play GTA vice city under linux with wine.

First I need to install wine:

[youri@slavluv Downloads]$ sudo pacman -S wine

Now to configure wine and create all the folders, and it also installs gecko packages. In config I added drive D: as /tmp/CD

[youri@slavluv Downloads]$ winecfg

Make the folder in CD in tmp and mount the iso. "-o loop" (modprobe loop if it's not loaded)

[youri@slavluv tmp]$ mkdir CD
[youri@slavluv tmp]$ sudo mount -o loop /home/youri/Downloads/Grand\ Theft\ Auto\ Vice\ City\ -\ PC/GTA_Vice_City.iso CD/

Run the setup:

[youri@slavluv tmp]$ wine CD/setup.exe




Went through install (did not choose to use radio stations)

Using the no-cd crack (I have the cd but not cd-rom drive, so I have to download it, it's not illegal if you have the licensed CD)

[youri@slavluv Grand Theft Auto Vice City - PC]$ cp -f Crack/gta-vc.exe /home/youri/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Rockstar\ Games/Grand\ Theft\ Auto\ Vice\ City/


Now I went to install directory ( /home/youri/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Rockstar Games/Grand Theft Auto Vice City ) and ran wine gta-vc.exe


It messed up my screen/didn't work.

Mounting the play CD the same way I did the install CD loaded the game. All the textures are blocky though. Probably would work fine at this point for someone with a decent video card..


Errors:

fixme:d3d:CompareFunc Unrecognized WINED3DCMPFUNC value 0
fixme:d3d:StencilOp Unrecognized stencil op 0
fixme:d3d:StencilOp Unrecognized stencil op 0
fixme:d3d:StencilOp Unrecognized stencil op 0
fixme:d3d:swapchain_gl_present Render-to-fbo with WINED3DSWAPEFFECT_FLIP
fixme:d3d:CompareFunc Unrecognized WINED3DCMPFUNC value 0
fixme:d3d:StencilOp Unrecognized stencil op 0
fixme:d3d:StencilOp Unrecognized stencil op 0
fixme:d3d:StencilOp Unrecognized stencil op 0
fixme:d3d:swapchain_gl_present Render-to-fbo with WINED3DSWAPEFFECT_FLIP
fixme:d3d:CompareFunc Unrecognized WINED3DCMPFUNC value 0
fixme:d3d:StencilOp Unrecognized stencil op 0
fixme:d3d:StencilOp Unrecognized stencil op 0
fixme:d3d:StencilOp Unrecognized stencil op 0
fixme:d3d:swapchain_gl_present Render-to-fbo with WINED3DSWAPEFFECT_FLIP
fixme:d3d:CompareFunc Unrecognized WINED3DCMPFUNC value 0

Disabling "Allow pixel shader" in wine settings  fixes the blockiness. Game is still slow though.

lighttpd fastcgi issues

Suddenly "mod_fastcgi" being enabled in "server.modules" for lighttpd is causing problems.

 2011-04-21 19:30:58: (log.c.166) server started
2011-04-21 19:30:58: (mod_fastcgi.c.978) bind failed for: unix:/var/run/lighttpd/php-fastcgi.socket-0 Permission denied
2011-04-21 19:30:58: (mod_fastcgi.c.1399) [ERROR]: spawning fcgi failed.
2011-04-21 19:30:58: (server.c.938) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.

Fix:

[youri@nemesis run]$ sudo gpasswd -a youri http
Password:
Adding user youri to group http

Or I should maybe make lighttpd run as http user again.

Mapping the cell locations from an iphone db on google maps

IOs stores the GPS locations of towers it connects to in this file:

/var/root/Library/Cache/locationd/consolidated.db

It's an sqlite3 file... So here is a script to pull the longtitude and lattitudes and turn them into a simple KML file.

#/bin/bash

#this is the KML heading
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<kml xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0">
<Document>

  <name>youri</name>'
 
#pull the longitude and latitude from sqlite3
for i in $(sqlite3 consolidated.db 'select longitude,latitude from celllocation';)
do coordinate=$(echo $i | sed 's/|/,/g')



echo '<Placemark><name>'$coordinate'</name><Point><coordinates>'$coordinate',0</coordinates></Point></Placemark>'
done;

echo '</Document></kml>'

I added this to my lighttpd.conf and restarted it.

  ".kml"       =>      "application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml",

Then it's just a matter of passing the kml file to google maps..

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://$yourserver/output.kml

I noticed a bunch of towers I never connected to  (far away places) so there are some problems with this.

Gnome-shell annoying bug.

Accidentally hitting the print screen button (which I do a lot because of this stupid keyboard) I get an annoying popup:

Text was empty (or contained only whitespace)

and in /.xsession-errors

Window manager warning: Error on command 33 "": Text was empty (or contained only whitespace)

Went to system settings - > keyboard -> shortcuts and disabled the printscreen shortcut for now.

Update: removing ~/.gconf and ~/.gnome* fixes this.

Convert mp3 to iphone ringtone.

Convert the mp3 too a wav first.

[youri@nemesis ringtone]$ mplayer -ao pcm Loudest_Ringtone.mp3 -ao pcm:file="ringtone.wav"

Then wav to m4r. M4r is the format iphone wants ringtones in.

[youri@nemesis ringtone]$ faac ringtone.wav -o loudest.m4r -w

Transfer file to iphone. I use sftp.

[youri@nemesis ringtone]$ sftp root@yphone:/Library/Ringtones

root@yphone's password:

Connected to yphone.

Changing to: /Library/Ringtones

sftp> put loudest.m4r

Uploading loudestm4r to /private/var/stash/Ringtones.wljzz0/loudest.m4r

loudest.ringtone.m4r                                                           100%  306KB 305.8KB/s   00:01   

sftp> exit

Avant-window-navigator system notification daemon applet crashed

GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_debug_add_log_function: assertion `func != NULL' failed
aborting...

Solution: re-install avant-window-navigator-bzr & awn-extras-applets-bzr

configure: error: The xdg python module is required (pyxdg or python-xdg)
    Aborting...

Stupid python3!

Solution: sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python

Joining many AVI files together & changing framerate

convert into one file:

for i in $(ls); do cat $i >> bigavi.avi; done

mencoder -forceidx -oac copy -ovc copy bigavi.avi -o FINAL.avi

framerate (25):

ffmpeg -i FINAL.avi -f yuv4mpegpipe - | yuvfps -s 25:1 -r 25:1 | ffmpeg -f yuv4mpegpipe -i  - -b 1000k  faster.avi

Remove dead repo (installed by package) from cydia via ssh

Failed to fetch http://ispaziorepository.com/./Packagez.gz HTTP/1.1 404 Not found.

Can't remove the repo through cydia, it was installed by JB tool.


 [youri@nemesis ~]$ ssh root@192.168.1.6 
root@192.168.1.6's password:

yPhone:~ root# rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ispazio.net.list


Fixed.

Upgrading ubuntu 10.10 to natty narwhal

youri@zexlette:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade -d

This hangs at "Calculating the changes"

youri@zexlette:~$ sudo aptitude update

youri@zexlette:~$ sudo aptitude full-upgrade

1164 packages upgraded, 135 newly installed, 78 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 623MB of archives. After unpacking 3,940kB will be freed.

E: Couldn't configure pre-depend x11-common for x11-utils, probably a dependency cycle.

youri@zexlette:~$ sudo dpkg --force-depends --remove x11-xkb-utils
[source]

youri@zexlette:~$ sudo aptitude full-upgrade

mjpg-streamer on arch with uvc webcam

[youri@nemesis ~]$ pak -S mjpg-streamer-uvc

[youri@nemesis ~]$ mjpg_streamer
MJPG Streamer Version.: 2.0
 i: Using V4L2 device.: /dev/video0
 i: Desired Resolution: 640 x 480
 i: Frames Per Second.: 5
 i: Format............: MJPEG
Unable to set format: Invalid argument
 Init v4L2 failed !! exit fatal
 i: init_VideoIn failed

[youri@nemesis ~]$ mjpg_streamer -i "input_uvc.so -d /dev/video -y" -o "output_http.so"
MJPG Streamer Version.: 2.0
 i: Using V4L2 device.: /dev/video
 i: Desired Resolution: 640 x 480
 i: Frames Per Second.: 5
 i: Format............: YUV
 i: JPEG Quality......: 80
 o: www-folder-path...: disabled
 o: HTTP TCP port.....: 8080
 o: username:password.: disabled
 o: commands..........: enabled

501: Not Implemented!
no www-folder configured

http://localhost:8080/?action=stream works

Cydia: Parsing dependency pre-depends

Cydia shows error: parsing dependency pre-depends

SSH'ing and doing apt-get update shows this:

Reading package lists... Error!
E: Problem parsing dependency Pre-Depends
E: Error occurred while processing com.sinfuliphone.adblocker (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/www.sinfuliphonerepo.com_._Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

Problem is that Pre-Depends: is empty for some packages.

 Solution until sinful fixes things: 

rm /var/lib/apt/lists/www.sinfuliphonerepo.com_._Packages 

or remove pre-depends from adblocker and tlert in sinfulliphonerepo

Cydia 'unable to parse package file'

Cydia error:

Unable to parse package file /var/lib/apt/lists/cydia.xsellize.com_. _Pacakges.IndexDiff (1)

SSHing into phone and deleting the file fixes it.

Amarok PHP and mYSQL

 <?php  
 //charset=utf-8 makes it so unicode output doesn't get gobbled up by browser  
 header("Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8");  
 echo '<p>Youri\'s id3v2 script</p>';  
   
   
 //connect to mysql and select amarokdb  
 $link=mysql_connect("localhost", "username", "password") or die(mysql_error());  
 echo "Connected to MySQL<br />";  
 mysql_select_db("amarokdb") or die(mysql_error());  
   
 echo "Connected to Database<br />";  
   
 //this makes the mysql db play well with utf8  
 mysql_set_charset('utf8',$link);  
   
   
 //globally retrieve all variables in the url string  
 $variable = $_GET['what'];  
 $bitratevariable = $_GET['bitrate'];  
 $coversaction = $_GET['coversaction'];  
 $idofartist= $_GET['idofartist'];  
 $artistName= $_GET['artistName'];  
   
   
 //navigation  
 echo "<a href=?what=bg1cd>Look for albums that have a CD num set</a> <br />";  
 echo "<a href=?what=blt128>Look for tracks with bitrate lower than 128kbps</a> <br />";  
 echo "<a href=?what=covers&coversaction=lookup>Look up covers</a> <br />";  
 echo "<a href=?what=nulltracknum>Look for tracks with no tracknumber set</a>";  
 echo '<br/><br/>';  
 echo "Look up bitrates<br />";  
   
 echo "[<a href=?what=bitrate&bitrate=128>128</a>] ";  
 echo "[<a href=?what=bitrate&bitrate=160>160</a>] ";  
 echo "[<a href=?what=bitrate&bitrate=192>192</a>] ";  
 echo "[<a href=?what=bitrate&bitrate=256>256</a>] ";  
 echo "[<a href=?what=bitrate&bitrate=320>320</a>] ";  
 echo '<br/><br/>';  
   
   
   
 //return the artist's name when an artist iD is passed  
 function getArtist($artistnum)  
 {  
      $artist = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `artists` where `id` = $artistnum");  
      while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($artist))   
      {  
           return $row{'name'};  
      }  
 }  
   
 //returns the album's name when an album id is passed  
 function getAlbum($albumnum)  
 {  
      $album = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `albums` where `id` = $albumnum");  
      while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($album))   
      {  
           return $row{'name'};  
      }  
        
   
 }  
   
 //this lists all the artists in the database except for various artists  
 function listArtists()  
      {  
   
 //select UNIQUE artist ID's from a join table of artists and album (join by referencing artists id column with albums artist column  
 /*  
 artists      albums      
 ID NAME     NAME      ARTIST  
 88 ARTIST     ALBUM     88  
 */  
   
        $result = mysql_query("select distinct artist from artists join albums on albums.artist=artists.id ORDER BY `artists`.`name`");  
   
   
 //walk through the result and pull artist id and artistname  
      while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))   
      {  
 //urlencode for spaces in artists and utf8 artists  
           $artistID = $row{'artist'};  
           $artistNameSQL=getArtist($artistID);  
           echo "<a href=?what=covers&coversaction=getArtistAlbums&idofartist=$artistID&artistName=",  
           urlencode($artistNameSQL),  
           ">$artistNameSQL</a><br />";       
              
   
      }  
      }  
        
        
   
   
 //listallalbums belonging to artist ID when given an artist ID       
 //artistname is passed only for html output  
 function listAlbumsById($idofartist,$artistName)  
      {  
        
        
      $albums = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `albums` where `artist` = $idofartist" );  
        
           echo "<strong>$artistName</strong><br />";  
           while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($albums))   
           {  
           $album = $row{'name'};  
        
 //amarok stores album covers by getting and md5sum hash of lowercased artist and album  
 //mb_strtolower works on unicode white strtolower doesn't  
           echo "<div style=\"display: inline-block\">";  
           echo "$album<br />";  
           echo "/home/youri/.kde4/share/apps/amarok/albumcovers/large/",md5(mb_strtolower("$artistName$album",'UTF-8')),"<br/>";  
           echo "<img width=500px src=./albumcovers/",md5(mb_strtolower("$artistName$album",'UTF-8')),"><br/>";  
           echo "</div>";  
           }  
        
      }  
   
   
 if ($variable=="bg1cd")  
 {  
      $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `tracks` WHERE `discnumber` IS NOT NULL");  
      while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))   
      {  
           $artist = getArtist($row{'artist'});  
           $album = getAlbum($row{'album'});  
           echo "$artist - $album <br />";  
      }  
   
 }  
   
 elseif ($variable=="blt128")  
 {  
        
      $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `tracks` WHERE `bitrate` < 128 ORDER BY `tracks`.`artist` ASC");  
      $num_rows = mysql_num_rows($result);  
   
      echo "$num_rows Tracks<br /><br />";   
        
           while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))   
      {  
           $artist = getArtist($row{'artist'});  
           $album = getAlbum($row{'album'});  
           $tracknumber = $row{'tracknumber'};  
           $title = $row{'title'};  
           $bitrate = $row{'bitrate'};  
           echo "$artist - $album - $tracknumber - $title [$bitrate]<br />";  
      }  
 }  
   
 elseif ($variable=="bitrate")  
 {  
   
      $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `tracks` WHERE `bitrate` = $bitratevariable");  
      $num_rows = mysql_num_rows($result);  
        
      $totaltrax = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `tracks`");  
      $num_rows_total = mysql_num_rows($totaltrax);  
        
      echo "$num_rows Tracks are $bitratevariable kbps ";   
      echo "out of a $num_rows_total total tracks<br />";  
        
      $percentage=($num_rows/$num_rows_total *100);  
        
      echo "Which equals: ";  
      echo number_format($percentage, 1)."%<br/>";  
   
   
 }  
   
 //if covers is called with lookup, list artists  
 //if covers is called with get artistalbums, then get artist's albums  
 elseif ($variable=="covers")  
 {  
   
   
      if ($coversaction == "lookup" )  
      {  
           listArtists();  
      }  
        
      elseif ($coversaction == "getArtistAlbums" )  
       {  
         
        
       listAlbumsById($idofartist,$artistName);  
         
       }  
   
 }  
   
   
   
 elseif ($variable=="nulltracknum")  
 {  
      $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `tracks` where `tracknumber` is null");  
      while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))   
      {  
      $artist = getArtist($row{'artist'});  
      $album = getAlbum($row{'album'});  
      $title = $row{'title'};  
      }  
   
 }  
 ?>  

iPhone 3GS log.

Jailbreak:

3GS 16GB jailbroken with spirit.

Spirit2pwn (old bootroom) -> sn0wbreeze -> 4.1

(Change hosts file/must have shsh for 4.1 saved)


Unlock:

Cydia -> Search -> ultrasn0w -> install


Installous:

Cydia -> Manage -> Edit -> Add -> cydia.hackulo.us
Cydia -> Search -> Installous -> Install


SSH

Change default passwords:

ssh mobile@192.168.1.6 (default passwd: alpine)

passwd

su root

passwd

TomTom

Mount iPhone under gnome, copy and paste tomtom 1.6 ipa onto filesystem.

ssh to phone as root

mv /var/mobile/Media/tomtom1.6.ipa /var/mobile/Documents/Installous/Downloads/

Go to installous and downloads and install ipa.

Favorites/settings restore:

iPhone:/private/var/mobile/Applications/D59505E5-17DF-4B2D-AD2A-73729133B4FC/Documents/USA, Canada, & Mexico mobile$ mv /User/Media/mapsettings.cfg ./


Apps: 

• Camera Plus Pro
• Skype
• Google Voice
• Calling Card
• TomTom
• iWebcamera
• OPlayer
• Ustream Broadcaster
• iSSH
• iFile
• Atomic Web

Tweaks:

• Winterboard
• Silent Camera Theme
• Glasklart Classic 4.0
• SBSettings
• SBSettings Glasklart theme
• Glasklart Battery theme 
• User Wallpaper
• User Lock Wallpaper
• Five Icon Dock
• Volume Boost
• Make it Mine
• ISHShit 
• Typophone 4
• Metadata removr

Change Calling Card Icon:

Find /var/stash/Themes.ZAZeaY/Glasklart%20Icons.theme/Bundles/com.apple.mobilephone/icon.png

Copy it to /var/stash/Themes.ZAZeaY/Youri's Icons/Icons/Calling Card.png

Settings->Winterboard-> Summer Board mode [ON] and enable "Youri's Icons" theme.

Respring.


Rename Applications

Add cydia source http://cydia.myrepospace.com/Tw1zTiD-Chris2
Install rename II
Respring


LockInfo

Add cydia repo http://www.sinfuliphonerepo.com
Lockinfo

HTC plugin

iAdKiller

Add cydia repo http://cydia.xsellize.com/
Install iAdKiller


Screenshot

phpMyAdmin collated db in utf8_bin shows hex data instead of UTF8 text

Expanding options and setting 'show binary contents' then pressing 'Go' fixes it.

and $cfg['DisplayBinaryAsHex'] = false;

 in /usr/share/webapps/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php

CLRF characters in my PKGBUILD!

makepkg
==> ERROR: PKGBUILD contains CRLF characters and cannot be sourced.

Solution:

sed -i 's/^M//' PKGBUILD

[ctrl+v][ctrl+m] for the ^M symbol.

Control amarok through dbus with SSH.

 The session needs to know $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS, so get that first and then run qdbus.

export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=`cat /proc/$(pidof kded4)/environ | tr '\0' '\n' | grep DBUS | cut -d '=' -f2-` ; qdbus org.kde.amarok /Player org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer.PlayPause

Xorg wouldn't start with latest updates.

One of these in my Xorg.0.log after upgrading to latest mesa ati-dri and libgl

[    27.289] 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x49f1a8]
[    27.289] 1: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x60239) [0x460239]
[    27.289] 2: /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f42d79da000+0xf1c0) [0x7f42d79e91c0]
[    27.289] Segmentation fault at address (nil)


Removing 'nomodeset' from /boot/grub/menu.lst fixes it.

updating phpbb from 3.0.7-pl1 to 3.0.8

navigate to forum dir
#wget http://www.phpbb.com/files/release/phpBB-3.0.7-PL1_to_3.0.8.tar.bz2

#bunzip2  phpBB-3.0.7-PL1_to_3.0.8.tar.bz2

#tar xvf phpBB-3.0.7-PL1_to_3.0.8.tar

go to forum/install & click update tab

'proceed to next step' -> 'update database' -> 'update my database now' -> 'continue the update process now'

'download modified archive'

tar xvf update_3.0.7-PL1_to_3.0.8.tar

rm -r install/

All files are up to date with the latest phpBB version. You should now login to your board and check if everything is working fine. Do not forget to delete, rename or move your install directory! Please send us updated information about your server and board configurations from the Send statistics module in your ACP.

phpmyadmin with arch + lighttpd

install phpmyadmin

#yaourt -S phpmyadmin php-mcrypt

edit lighttpd.conf

add alias.url = ( "/phpmyadmin/" => "/usr/share/webapps/phpMyAdmin/") to  /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

edit .htaccess

#deny from all to /etc/webapps/phpmyadmin/.htaccess

edit php.ini
open_basedir = /srv/http/:/home/:/tmp/:/usr/share/pear/:/usr/share/webapps/:/etc/webapps
in
/etc/php/php.ini

extension=mcrypt.so
extension=mysql.so

works.

mp3 backup script with rsync

#!/bin/sh


dir="/media/mp3"
ext="mp3"
backupdir="/media/6e6fad14-604b-499f-ac0f-6667aadb478f/MP3S"




find $dir -type f | grep -v \.$ext\$


if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
echo
echo "Not continuing with backup"
echo "Found non mp3 files"
else


echo "Continuing with backup"
rsync -avur "$dir/" "$backupdir/"
echo "Backup complete"
fi

Kernel patch that does wonders bash.

Here is how I am doing my bash script.
 (As explained here: www.webupd8.org/2010/11/alternative-to-200-lines-kernel-patch.html)


in ~/.bashrc


if [ "$PS1" ] ; then                                                                                                                               
    mkdir -m 0700 /cgroup/$$
    echo $$ > /cgroup/$$/tasks
    echo 1 > /cgroup/$$/notify_on_release
fi


in /etc/rc.local

mount -t cgroup cgroup /cgroup -o cpu
chmod 0777 /cgroup
echo "/sbin/rm_cgroup" > /cgroup/release_agent

in /sbin/rm_cgroup

#!/bin/sh
rmdir /cgroup/$1

then chmod +x /sbin/rm_cgroup and sudo mkdir /cgroup

Source.

Temporary smplayer/mplayer "subcc" fix.

Came across this with latest mplayer and smplayer

The subcc option must be an integer: -subpos
Error parsing option on the command line: -subcc


Bug report.

Here's my simple work around for now:

changed the 'mplayer executable' setting to /usr/bin/mplayer.rmsubcc in smplayer and put this into mplayer.rmsubcc (and chmod +x /usr/bin/mplayer.rmsubcc).


#!/bin/sh
command=$(echo $* | sed 's/-subcc//g')
/usr/bin/mplayer $command

EDIT:

command=$(echo $* | sed 's/-subcc//g' | sed 's/-aid\ 1/-aid\ 0/g')


will also fix the "MPlayer interrupted by signal 8 in module: demux_open" problem. 


Bug report.

Edit: Fixed in latest SVN

Opening a .psd with gimp

Gimp (2.6.11) wouldn't open a psd file. Had issues with CMYK.


Error loading PSD file: Unsupported color mode: CMYK

This works to convert it to a png:

convert banner.psd -channel rgba -alpha on -colorspace rgb rgb-image.png

convert is part of imagemagick.

Yaourt on archlinux changed AUR behavior.

yaourt -Syu --aur used to show aur packages, recently it stopped.

The fix is to replace the line

DETAILUPGRADE=0 classify_pkg $(pacman -Qqm | wc -l)< <(eval $cmd)

to

classify_pkg < <(eval $cmd)

in /usr/lib/yaourt/abs.sh

EDIT:

This is now accomplished with

DETAILUPGRADE=2 in /etc/yaourtrc

Browse blackberry tour sd card from linux.

Plugged my blackberry tour in and I got this in dmesg

usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 25
scsi8 : usb-storage 1-5:1.1

Nothing in /dev/sd* to mount though.

Fixed it by doing this on the blackberry:

Setup -> Options -> Memory -> Auto Enable Mass Storage Mode When Connected [YES]

And now it's accessible.

Chromium hanging on google maps

Chromium (9.0.564.0 (63860) Archlinux) kept hanging on google maps and a few other websites.

Not sure what the deal is but this fixes it until the devs do an overhaul.

chromium --disable-accelerated-compositing

"We're looking into possibly doing an overhaul of the gpu process architecture to resolve this and other related issues. Since accelerated compositing is only going to be a labs feature for M8 and the non-accelerated path isn't affected, I don't think this issue should be marked ReleaseBlock-Beta." 

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=58862

White screen on boot on ubuntu

Ubuntu upgrade to maverick on a dell C640 has a white screen on boot.

1.) Plugged in ethernet cable (wireless doesn't work)
2.) grub recovery mode (netroot: root shell with networking)
3.) Running startx show abi mismatch errors + unable to load drivers
4.) Ran aptitude, it updated some xserver packages
5.) X now starts but it's all trippy colors + low resolution (not using radeon driver)
6.) X also won't let me use keyboard or mouse
7.) Remove and install xserver-xorg-video-radeon
8.) apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-core
9.) apt-get install xserver-xorg-core
10.) X starts fine now.

Whatever, ubuntu.

Iphone as webcam in linux (arch) with webcamstudio and iWebcamera.

First install webcamstudio: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22708

I use yaourt not pacman so it was:

[youri@nemesis ~]$ yaourt -S webcamstudio

Also need vloopback2 (Not vloopback package but vloopback-svn) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31446

[youri@nemesis ~]$ yaourt -S vloopback

Now insert the module:

[youri@nemesis ~]$ modprobe vloopback

Install iWebcamera on the iphone and run it.

Make a file iWebcamera.wspl and put this in it:

pipeline=souphttpsrc location=http://192.168.1.6:8080/strm ! jpegec ! ffmpegcolorspace name=tosink

Change the ip (red) to the ip of the iphone.

Run webcamstudio and click on 'sources' then add a folder to scan and select the folder that holds the previously created iWebcamera.wspl file.

Double click the iphone in the Devices list and press "play" on it.

Now it's accessible to the system.

archlinux dbus causing problems on boot

Kept getting

Starting D-BUS system messagebus Failed to start message bus:

Putting "dbus" in front of "hal" so that it starts first in /etc/rc.conf fixed it.

DAEMONS=( syslog-ng network netfs crond dbus hal fam @sshd @alsa @openntpd @lighttpd)