Ruby on rails 4 prez

currently I’m checking out ruby on rails. I’m quite impressed how fast simple applications which need databases can be realized.

for a quick start I recommend the following web sites:

• Rolling with ruby on rails on ONLamp.com
• Ruby on rails wiki

if you need the iso-8859-1 character set (latin-1, west european), the solution can be found in Simon’s Blog.

Upgraded to Edgy and vmplayer is no longer working?

Just uninstall libdbus-1-2.

Please find an explanation here: http://mindwarp.net/?p=28

Ubuntu live cd with Linux Live scripts

tested with Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (The Dapper Drake) and Linux Live 5.5.0 scripts.
I was looking for a possibility to create my own live cd with the newest ubuntu version. after trying out some tools e.g. Ubuntu Customization Kit I finally found the linux-live scripts. with these scripts it is possible to create a live cd from a running linux system. I prefer this approach where you are able to configure a running system and don’t need to add code to several scripts as in uck. but it took quite some time to get the linux-live scripts working. for ubuntu are some changes necessary. this how-to should work at least up to dapper drake” Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (The Dapper Drake). for Ubuntu 6.10 LTS (The Edgy Eft) it won’t work, I guess. they radically changed the boot process there. But now let’s have a look at this small how-to:

TVAnts on linux

I managed to get working the TVAnts peer-to-peer application with wine.

just download TVAnts from http://www.tvants.com after you installed wine (http://www.winehq.com). if you haven't installed a standard media player (e.g. windows media player 6.4 with additional codecs) you have to use a linux media player. use regedit and import this regedit file. if you wish to use another player than mplayer just edit the line @="\"/usr/bin/mplayer\" \"-zoom\" \"%L\"" in the file.

sopcast 0.9.6 on linux (ubuntu/debian)

Finally they made it!

http://forum.sopcast.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1721

sopcast 0.9.5 on linux (ubuntu/debian): good news!

There should be a new linux version available soon: http://forum.sopcast.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1710

sopcast 0.9.5 on linux (ubuntu/debian)

you may have noticed that sopcast have improved their program the last months continously. unfortunately at the moment it seems that they won't continue the linux version of sopcast. the sp-sc applications before version 0.9.5 won't work anymore.

sopcast 0.8.1 on linux (ubuntu/debian)

the first time I followed the instructions on this page (french) but using sopcast without GUI wasn't satisfying. so I tried to find a GUI for linux. I found one on magiclinux.org. with a few modifications in the source I finally got it working.

how to get WMV9 files working properly

after installing the common codecs with this howto, playing WMV files will still not work. you have to install additional codecs.

no microphone on an asus P4P800 mainboard with on-board sound card AD1985 AC’97

I had problems to get the microphone working on my computer. I did quite a long time intensive research on the internet but with no result. after playing around with my settings I finally found the solution. unfortunately ubuntu or alsa seems to enable only 2 channels (for stereo output) of the sound card but there are 6!! and this is how to enable all channels: