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Archive for May, 2010
Ubuntu Hits Primetime TV
Ubuntu Linux makes it prime time TV debut on the popular TV show The Big Bang Theory. Sure its a show about geeks but hey, its a start.
How to: Install Evolution 2.30 on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
For some reason unbeknown to me, the developers of Ubuntu 10.04 updated Gnome desktop environment to version to 2.30 but left the Evolution version as 2.28. I think that this version of Evolution is really buggy and the decision was a very bad idea. In this article I will show you how to upgrade your Evolution version to 2.30 and install the Evolution-mapi client so that you can connect to a Microsoft Exchange 2007 server.
To do this we will be using unofficial Ubuntu packages created and maintained by Jacob Zimmerman. The packages are located on his PPA page.
Step 1:
Install Jacob’s PPA package repository on your system. Open up a terminal session and type the following:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jacob/evo230
This will install Jacob’s PPA repository for Evolution 2.30. It will also import the security key.
Step 2:
Update your computer’s repository information.
In the same terminal windows type:
sudo apt-get update
Step 3:
Next type to upgrade Evolution from 2.28 to 2.30:
sudo apt-get install evolution
apt will respond by telling you that there are several packages that need installed, upgrade, and removed. Hit the “Y” key to continue.
Now sit back and relax as apt upgrades to Evolution 2.30.
Extra:
If you are in a corporate/school environment that uses Microsoft Exchange 2007 for its email server you can install the evolution-mapi package to allow Evolution to communicate with the server. Remember this is still a very experimental package, however I have found that it is far better in version 2.30 than it ever was is 2.28.
Type this to install evolution-mapi
apt-get install evolution-mapi
This will also need you to hit “Y” to install becuase there are several new packages that get installed to support Evolution-mapi
You should now be able to fire up Evolution and configure it for you email environment.
Note about mapi-plugin:
Here is the response from the evo230 maintainer about the evolution-mapi plug-in
Hi Terry
I’m sorry that I had to remove the mapi package from the PPA for the moment. The latest version doesn’t build properly on lucid, and besides many people experienced problems with that package that could only be solved by upgrading openchange to version 0.10, which is also not possible for dependency reasons. Hope you understand.
Kind regards
Jacob
I will keep you posted if anything changes
Note:
The first time that I open Evolution after upgrading I just got a gray screen. To fix this all I did was reboot.
How to Skip Past Previews on DVDs
We all hate having to sit through those annyoying 15 minutes of previews on DVD movies, its even worse when you have to make a little kid wait. Here is a way to skip past all of those previews and go directly to the movie even when you the DVD maker has blocked the fast forward or skip button. Get you pop corn becuase it’s movie time.
Step 1:
Put the DVD in your DVD player and press play
Step 2:
Once the previews start hit Stop twice on your remote and then hit play.
You should now be at the start of the movie. This trick should work on most DVD players but your mileage may vary. Enjoy
Howto: Change Oracle sysman Password and Reconfigure Enterprise Manager
Note:
This guide was written for Oracle 10g running on a Windows server but the process is identical with the exception of how you stop and start the Enterprise Manager service.
When changing the sysman account password, which run the Oracle Enterprise Manager Application, you will need to stop the OracleDBConsole<SID> service from the Services Control Panel applet. This will keep the sysman account from getting locked out.
Log into sqlplus as the user sys then type:
ALTER USER sysman identified BY <new password>
Navigate in Windows Explorer to:
<ORACLE_HOME>\<localhost.domain_SID>\sysman\config
(Where localhost.domain_SID is specific to your installation environment.)
Open the file named emoms.properties in Wordpad
Located the value:
oracle.sysman.eml.mntr.emdRepPwd=<encrypted value>
(Where <encrypted value> is a random string of numbers and letters)
Change this to encrypted password to your new sysman password
Locate the Value:
oracle.sysman.eml.mntr.emdRepPwdEncrypted=TRUE
Change it to:
oracle.sysman.eml.mntr.emdRepPwdEncrypted=FALSE
Note:
Once you start the OracleDBConsole<SID> service it will change this cleartext password to its encrypted value.
Now start OracleDBConsole<SID> services that you stop before.
Note:
If the sysman or any other account becomes locked, you can unlock it with this command.
ALTER USER account unlock;