Blank File Operations window on MATE

Caja started to behave a little weird, specifically when copying files these last couple of days.
The copy window, the one called "File Operations", which shows the progress of the copy, has no text at all.

Cliff-hanging onto the movie

Another milestone of these X Files re-watch...
Oh, the memories! The memories!!!
The season'5 last episode! The movie -the first one- was just around the corner!

Thursday 28-03-2013

Wednesday 27-03-2013

Usul for a week

I've used Usul for a week as my main box
With the SSD drive, 8 GB RAM and Cinnamon it makes a hell of a box, ultra, hyper fast, light & somehow smallish.
But there are two show stoppers, big and smelly show stoppers for the little laptop that could.

1- Screen real state:
The resolution (1280x800) is a PITA, a real, real PITA to deal with.
To browse back and forth and do stupid stuff on internet it is fine, but once you need to start pulling Terminal, after Terminal and more Terminals, and then open a few pdf docs, and a gEdit... The thing goes to hell, straight to hell and very fast... Using Virtual Desktops helps, and helps a lot; but I don't like them, and I find the the way to create those in Cinnamon truly moronic.

2- WiFi drops:
The other one is the disconnection with the Centrino Ultimate-N 6300... Simply put is annoying as hell, I've tried all what Google thinks and has that might help, but did nothing at all.
I can easily use a wired connection, when I'm at work, but that is really unpractical.

Nevertheless, given those two problems, the first one its the real show stopper.

Digitali first

It took me a while, but I finally finished reading my first ebook during the weekend.
Tho it isn't considered as one of Ambrose's best books I found it really useful and interesting.

The Gibson Files

Another X Files classic...
The "one written by William Gibson", oh man, what a fantastic eposide!
From the Pris like female lead, and the duct taped laptop to the 90's VR gadgets.

Sunday 24-03-2013

I heard that it was a lone gunman

What a fantastic X Files episode!
And a magnificent example of the series cinematography as well.
I loved this episode the first time I saw it, re-watched it the other day for the first time in a decade or more.

Thinkpad T410 WiFi NIC on Linux (2)

Well, the WiFi problem with the T410 goes on...
It seems the tip or trick I've tested didn't help that much in the long run.
So, right now I'm testing the third and last one on this page How do I get an Intel Ultimate 6300-N working?
Will have to give it a few days of actual testing to see if this one works A Ok.

The current Linux Mint MATE desktop

Not one of this MATE screenshot posts in really, really a long time.
Still running on the same classic fashion, only one Panel at the bottom.

Autumn is here

At last!
Summer is dead, may the cold be with us until at least, December.

This can't possibly be scientific

Going thru a little kind of a trance -to put it a name- these last couple of days.
Watching X Files and Fringe, back to back.
Damn all to hell, what a freaking amazing thing.
Anna... How on Earth can she be that beautiful?

19 K and counting!

Time and Play Counts stop for nobody.

The current Linux Mint desktop

Connected to the Apple Cinema Display via ADC to DVI adapter, and then to a DVI to DisplayPort connector.
Something that keeps working A Ok even with Linux Mint and Cinnamon.

Installing Forticlient SSL on Linux Mint (64 bits)

I need to use this rather crappy VPN client one to connect to a couple of an associate data centers.
These is are the steps to install the Fortigate SSL Client on Linux Mint Maya.
As usual, unpack it and execute the installer:

usul > ./forticlientsslvpn 
./forticlientsslvpn: error while loading shared libraries: \
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

It'll fail, so, install the 32 bits libraries:

usul > sudo apt-get install ia32-libs-gtk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'ia32-libs' instead of 'ia32-libs-gtk'
The following extra packages will be installed:
  bluez-alsa:i386 glib-networking:i386 gstreamer0.10-plugins-base:i386 gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 gstreamer0.10-x:i386
  gtk2-engines:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine:i386 gtk2-engines-oxygen:i386 gtk2-engines-pixbuf:i386 gvfs:i386 gvfs-libs:i386
  ia32-libs-multiarch:i386 ibus-gtk:i386 libaa1:i386 libacl1:i386 libaio1:i386 libao-common libao4:i386 libatk1.0-0:i386
  libattr1:i386 libaudiofile1:i386 libavc1394-0:i386 libbz2-1.0:i386 libcaca0:i386 libcairo-gobject2:i386 libcairo2:i386
  libcanberra-gtk-module:i386 libcanberra-gtk0:i386 libcanberra0:i386 libcap2:i386 libcdparanoia0:i386 libcroco3:i386
  libcupsimage2:i386 libcurl3:i386 libdatrie1:i386 libdbus-glib-1-2:i386 libdv4:i386 libesd0:i386 libgail-common:i386
  libgail18:i386 libgconf-2-4:i386 libgdbm3:i386 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:i386 libgettextpo0:i386 libgnome-keyring0:i386
  libgomp1:i386 libgtk2.0-0:i386 libgudev-1.0-0:i386 libibus-1.0-0:i386 libidn11:i386 libiec61883-0:i386 libjasper1:i386
  libmad0:i386 libmikmod2:i386 libncursesw5:i386 libnspr4:i386 libnss3:i386 libodbc1:i386 libpango1.0-0:i386
  libpixman-1-0:i386 libproxy1:i386 libpulse-mainloop-glib0:i386 libpulsedsp:i386 libqt4-designer:i386 libqt4-opengl:i386
  libqt4-qt3support:i386 libqt4-scripttools:i386 libqt4-svg:i386 libqt4-test:i386 libraw1394-11:i386 librsvg2-2:i386
  librsvg2-common:i386 librtmp0:i386 libsdl-image1.2:i386 libsdl-mixer1.2:i386 libsdl-net1.2:i386 libsdl-ttf2.0-0:i386
  libsdl1.2debian:i386 libshout3:i386 libslang2:i386 libsoup-gnome2.4-1:i386 libsoup2.4-1:i386 libspeex1:i386 libssl0.9.8:i386
  libstdc++5:i386 libtag1-vanilla:i386 libtag1c2a:i386 libtdb1:i386 libthai0:i386 libtheora0:i386 libudev0:i386
  libunistring0:i386 libvisual-0.4-0:i386 libvisual-0.4-plugins:i386 libvorbisfile3:i386 libwavpack1:i386 libxaw7:i386
  libxcb-render0:i386 libxcb-shm0:i386 libxft2:i386 libxmu6:i386 libxp6:i386 libxtst6:i386 odbcinst1debian2:i386 oss-compat
  xaw3dg:i386
Suggested packages:
  murrine-themes:i386 kde-config-gtk-style:i386 libpam-ldap:i386 libpam-winbind:i386 libnss-ldap:i386 libroar1:i386
  libsndio0:i386 roaraudio-server:i386 libcanberra-pulse:i386 libdv-bin:i386 oss-compat:i386 pulseaudio-esound-compat:i386
  gnome-keyring:i386 libjasper-runtime:i386 libmyodbc:i386 odbc-postgresql:i386 tdsodbc:i386 unixodbc-bin:i386
  ttf-baekmuk:i386 ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp:i386 ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp:i386 ttf-arphic-gkai00mp:i386 ttf-arphic-bkai00mp:i386
  libraw1394-doc:i386 librsvg2-bin:i386 speex:i386
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bluez-alsa:i386 glib-networking:i386 gstreamer0.10-plugins-base:i386 gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 gstreamer0.10-x:i386
  gtk2-engines:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine:i386 gtk2-engines-oxygen:i386 gtk2-engines-pixbuf:i386 gvfs:i386 gvfs-libs:i386
  ia32-libs ia32-libs-multiarch:i386 ibus-gtk:i386 libaa1:i386 libacl1:i386 libaio1:i386 libao-common libao4:i386
  libatk1.0-0:i386 libattr1:i386 libaudiofile1:i386 libavc1394-0:i386 libbz2-1.0:i386 libcaca0:i386 libcairo-gobject2:i386
  libcairo2:i386 libcanberra-gtk-module:i386 libcanberra-gtk0:i386 libcanberra0:i386 libcap2:i386 libcdparanoia0:i386
  libcroco3:i386 libcupsimage2:i386 libcurl3:i386 libdatrie1:i386 libdbus-glib-1-2:i386 libdv4:i386 libesd0:i386
  libgail-common:i386 libgail18:i386 libgconf-2-4:i386 libgdbm3:i386 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:i386 libgettextpo0:i386
  libgnome-keyring0:i386 libgomp1:i386 libgtk2.0-0:i386 libgudev-1.0-0:i386 libibus-1.0-0:i386 libidn11:i386
  libiec61883-0:i386 libjasper1:i386 libmad0:i386 libmikmod2:i386 libncursesw5:i386 libnspr4:i386 libnss3:i386 libodbc1:i386
  libpango1.0-0:i386 libpixman-1-0:i386 libproxy1:i386 libpulse-mainloop-glib0:i386 libpulsedsp:i386 libqt4-designer:i386
  libqt4-opengl:i386 libqt4-qt3support:i386 libqt4-scripttools:i386 libqt4-svg:i386 libqt4-test:i386 libraw1394-11:i386
  librsvg2-2:i386 librsvg2-common:i386 librtmp0:i386 libsdl-image1.2:i386 libsdl-mixer1.2:i386 libsdl-net1.2:i386
  libsdl-ttf2.0-0:i386 libsdl1.2debian:i386 libshout3:i386 libslang2:i386 libsoup-gnome2.4-1:i386 libsoup2.4-1:i386
  libspeex1:i386 libssl0.9.8:i386 libstdc++5:i386 libtag1-vanilla:i386 libtag1c2a:i386 libtdb1:i386 libthai0:i386
  libtheora0:i386 libudev0:i386 libunistring0:i386 libvisual-0.4-0:i386 libvisual-0.4-plugins:i386 libvorbisfile3:i386
  libwavpack1:i386 libxaw7:i386 libxcb-render0:i386 libxcb-shm0:i386 libxft2:i386 libxmu6:i386 libxp6:i386 libxtst6:i386
  odbcinst1debian2:i386 oss-compat xaw3dg:i386
0 upgraded, 107 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 22.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 68.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y

Once that is up & done, simply give the installer one more try:

./forticlientsslvpn 
/usr/local/bin/forticlientsslvpn/.//helper//setup.linux.sh: line 11: \
/usr/local/bin/forticlientsslvpn/.//helper/forticlientsslvpn.install.log: Permission denied
/usr/local/bin/forticlientsslvpn/.//helper//setup.linux.sh: line 12: \
xterm: command not found

It'll fail once again, because by default there is no xterm installed on Linux Mint MATE 13.
Edit the file setup.linux.sh, comment the line:

##      xterm -e "$0" 2

And add this line, just below the one commented:

        gnome-terminal -e "$0" 2

Then execute the installer:

./forticlientsslvpn

The first time you execute it there is a splash screen, the reason this thing wanted to use xterm.
After that there might be a menacing pop up informing the installation failed, but its crap, simply continue and be happy.

At last!!!!

A week to go until Autumn, and temperature drops and drops...
May this be beginning of a harsh winter.

To fstab or not to fstab

The current settings on Usul's /etc/fstab file:

proc                        /proc   proc   nodev,noexec,nosuid      0   0
UUID=e3de4a0b-76ca-48d6-8abb-a0fc193688da       /       ext4    noatime,nodiratime              0       1
tmpfs                                           /tmp    tmpfs   defaults,noatime,mode=1777      0       0
/dev/mapper/cryptswap1            none   swap   sw            0   0

Even tho the SSD HDD is not TRIM capable, I expect to get many, many, many years out of it.

Thinkpad T410 WiFi NIC on Linux

The WiFi connection of the T410 has been a bit spotty, forever.
At first I thought it was a kernel related problem, but even the latest and shiniest gave the same errors, so a bit of Google turned out this:

unreliability with Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 wireless connection, 802.11n

Suggested that issuing this:

sudo modprobe -r iwlwifi
sudo modprobe iwlwifi bt_coex_active=0
sudo emacs /etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf

options iwlwifi bt_coex_active=0

And then rebooting.
Things seem to be really, really improve after this.

Busy is busy means busy

Been really, really busy lately, not much time to post around, barely with some free time to watch a couple of movies, and do some very light reading.
And everything seems to point towards a very very busy year.

Cinnamon & artifacts

Mint or no Mint, Cinnamon or not.. My beloved fuzzy artifacts on my T410 seem to be perpetual, once again, this happened coming back from a Suspend.

Mint on SSD

Yesterday pulled out the "nomal" HDD from Usul, and loaded that long time underdog champion of mine, the 128 GB SSD that originally came with the T410.

This little laptop, given that now has 8 GB RAM, fucking and literally flies.
Too bad the screen its a complete piece of shit, the audio output is really weak and the whole body feels really plasticly.
When will Lenovo release an aluminum (totally and completely black, of course) Thinkpad?

Past the 4 times mark

Its been a loooooong time since I post something about Rhythmboxes Play Cont around here...
For the way that Play Count rises, I would say that I hardly use it nowadays, but nevertheless, today I got to the "4 times played mark".