Tinkering with Linux & Mac OSX

TaxOnWeb, OSX and Chrome

2012-01-01T21:48:00.000+01:00

- Not working at present

I believe that the Belgian government website went heavily with Microsoft for its electronic ID cards, and that means Belgian citizens and residents that are not Microsoft slaves will have a tougher time using eGovernment. However, TaxOnWeb can sometimes be used.

The trick (from here) is to start Chrome with a flag:

/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --use-system-ssl

Then when it appears to ask for the password to the keyring, it actually wants the PIN-code for the eID card.

Regrettably, since first writing, TaxOnWeb now does a userAgent check and blocks Chrome. Although I have found an extension to hep, this won't install today on my beta version of Chrome (16)

Logging into Keytrade bank with e-ID

2012-01-01T16:18:00.000+01:00

For some bizarre reason Keytrade bank have dropped their existing 2-factor authentication process in favour of the Belgian e-ID. The latter is notoriously linked to Microsoft, and Keytrade's instructions only refer to IE.

Although the FAQ suggests that Mac is supported, so far Keytrade's Java applet is not working for me - it fails to load completely. If I find a way to login using Mac or Linux I will post here.

TaxOnWeb on Ubuntu

2011-12-17T14:58:00.000+01:00

Installing Belgian e-ID middleware and reader

There are (at least) three versions of the software on the Internet:

From the official site (dutch)- version 3.5.6;
via Ubuntu software manager - version 3.5.2; and
From the developers' website - beta 4.0 (Note you also need a the e-ID viewer too from here.

Firefox - working
The official FAQ on Firefox is farcical - in short, Tax-on-Web is not available in Firefox 4 and above because this browser does not support the SSL connection that the Belgian state acknowledges it is is using, because it is relatively insecure (this has also received press attention)!

And it's true, when you try to connect with Firefox 4+ you get an error:

Error code: ssl_error_renegotiation_not_allowed

There is a way of forcing Firefox to work with this insecure connection method - see here or here. Taxonweb further enforces its restrictions via a user-agent sniff, so you need a switching add-on - use any Microsoft user-agent - to be permitted to pay taxes!

Then all you need to do accept the certificate and permit access to card dialogues, an denter your PIN code.

Chrome - working

Follow http://code.google.com/p/eid-mw/wiki/ChromeLinux
Install a user-agent switcher from the Chrome store, and switch to Firefox (IE does not work)

Converting relations to cycle routes

2010-11-27T21:12:00.000+01:00

So, I've uploaded a whole set of edits to the OSM and in particular set up a relation covering the whole of a marked ride in Belgium. But now I want to follow the route on my GPS. In other words, how to covert a relation into a gpx.

OSM comes with an API, and it is the xapi that provides access to data. The syntax to download all the elements of the same relation is:

http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.6/relation[name=witloofroute] Note: does not work
or
http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.6/relation?name=witloofroute
http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.6/relation#14813

But I believe that this just gives the raw data, which is very frequently not ordered and would thus be useless to follow.

So, thank goodness for the OSM Relation Analyzer.

http://ra.osmsurround.org/analyze.jsp?relationId=14813

Rendering Velomap maps with OSX

2010-11-06T16:43:00.000+01:00

I like the work being done by Velomap.org, and he provides ready built files (but only for Windows). If you want more up to date builds (because of map or rendering file updates), then there are instructions on building your own maps. However, they are very brief.

The missing steps are:

Prerequisites
e) 'Download via git' means use the "Download" button on

https://github.com/aiomaster/aiostyles/tree/master/velomap_style/ and then you need to copy the velomap_style directory and the velomap.TYP file to the directory you plan to do the rest of the steps from.

Tweaking .typ file to work on a GPS

'adjust FID/PID of the .TYP-filewith gmaptool' was harder but these instructions suggest trying

./gmt -w -y 12241,1 velomap.TYP

where

-w : write
-y FID, PID,CP : adds the FID (=MapID, I will use 12241000 as 1224 is Belgium) PID (= ?, which seems always to be '1') and CP (=CodePage)

The instructions on the OSM wiki suggest using the --family-id switch when running mkgmap.jar

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Cycle_map

Installing the Map:

These instructions for GMapi Builder are needed for converting to the Mac gmapi format used by RoadTrip and BaseCamp.

Navigating in areas not covered by OpenStreetMap

2010-08-10T08:09:00.000+02:00

I spent the last couple of weeks cycling in France. It was not an area well covered by OpenStreetMap, but I found a way of keeping to the roads I wanted to.

I started by setting the routes in Google Maps.

Then I used the bookmark from GMaptoGpx to download a KML and followed the instructions provided by this great tool to run it through GPS visualizer.

The resulting gpx was readily importable to RoadTrip, from where it could be transferred to the Garmin.

On the Garmin itself I choose Where To > Saved Rides > [ride name] > Map Setup. Then I chose a colour and clicked show on map. I could then follow the route around. Don't choose navigate.

[Note: there is a bug in Garmin's 3.2 software that means that once you have a map shown on screen un-clicking the show option does not work.]

OpenStreetMap for Garmin Edge

2010-07-18T18:38:00.000+02:00

The standard OpenStreetMap downloads for Garmin may be appropriate for car drivers but the end result is little use for cycling using a Garmin Edge 605. I'd like to use the cycling specific data on OSM (see OpenCycleMap for the UK, or OpenFietsKaart for the Benelux) data instead with Garmin's RoadTrip or Basecamp for OSX.

Do-it-yourself
As there doesn't seem to be a pre-made version anywhere, I had to role my own using these instructions. That got me a gmapsub.img, which worked on the Edge 605 albeit with very slow rendering due to an excessive level of detail.

These instructions are needed for converting to the Mac gmapi format used by RoadTrip and BaseCamp.

LAMP on OSX

2010-06-26T20:57:00.000+02:00

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1293484/easiest-way-to-activate-php-and-mysql-on-mac-os-10-6-snow-leopard

Editing http.conf (How to find hidden files in Finder) to enable php: uncomment
LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

Then restart Apache.

Download MySQL version: Mac OS X ver. 10.6 (x86, 32-bit), DMG Archive

TimeMachine on an external hard drive

2010-03-27T19:42:00.000+01:00

I tried to make a LaCie drive connected to the USB port of my Belkin N+ available for TimeMachine back-ups. The Belkin uses SAMBA but can only share a FAT(32) partition, and Apple seem to have found ways to prevent homebrew approaches.

I was mainly following these instructions.

1. Making the disk accessible
After trying too many options, it seems I could not get it to work despite great instructions with a disk formatted for ntfs - although the router could find and share it (which it can't do for Linux or Mac formats), it was still not possible to write to the sparsebundle. Went back to FAT32 and I think it works.

2. Unable to backup
I have a lot of problems accessing the disk once I have mounted it using finder:
The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error 80.

Is it possible that I had to mount the disk as guest in finder before it was accessible to timemachine? Also looks as though the disk was badly corrupted - even these instructions to use fsck_hfs didn't work.

Installing ubuntu from USB

2010-02-20T14:19:00.000+01:00

Turned out to be pretty easy to follow the instructions for installing from a USB stick.

I gpt stuck with an error about /dev/sr0 not being found but disabling floppy disk driver in bios fixed that

Netatalk in Ubuntu

2009-10-17T12:21:00.000+02:00

Turned out to be quite easy to follow these instructions, namely.

editing /etc/netatalk/afpd.conf
/etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default was already OK
editing /etc/nsswitch.conf

But one volume would not mount, and these instructions proved brilliant

Wordpress on Ubuntu user edition

2009-10-14T06:49:00.001+02:00

Follow these instructions for LAMP

To enable user directories in apache do:

sudo a2enmod userdir

Edit /etc/php5/apache2/php5.conf

As my ISP blocks incoming port 80 requests I need to run a virtual host on a higher port.

edit /etc/apache2/ports.conf to add

NameVirtualHost *:61112
Listen 61112

Then enable rewrite commands in .htaccess for nice permalinks

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Reinstalling Grub for Ubuntu

2009-10-11T13:24:00.001+02:00

gmolleda provided some instructions that worked for me

sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda2 /mnt
sudo grub-install –root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda 

(change sda2 and sda to your linux system and drive, could be hdaX and hda)

Setting up my screen in ubuntu

2009-10-10T20:21:00.000+02:00

I followed these instructions, but found some additional xrandr stuff helpful too

I have a nVidia FX5200 with TV-in and a Sony SDM HS75B. Running get-edid indicates that I have a problem:

VBE/DDC service about to be called
   Read EDID

   Performing real mode VBE call
   Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x0
   Function supported
   Call failed

The EDID data should not be trusted as the VBE call failed
EDID claims 255 more blocks left
EDID blocks left is wrong.
Your EDID is probably invalid.

As a result:

$ xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 800 x 600, maximum 800 x 600
default connected 800x600+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   800x600 60.0* 56.0
   640x480 60.0
   400x300 60.0 56.0
   320x240 60.0

I ended up using the xorg.conf file from Mandriva, which does not see to worry about EDID ... fortunately.

# File generated by XFdrake (rev 256990)

# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the xorg.conf man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************

Section "ServerFlags"
   #DontZap # disable (server abort)
   AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work
   #DontZoom # disable / (resolution switching)
EndSection

Section "Module"
   Disable "dri"
   Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
   Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
   Load "extmod"
   Load "glx" # 3D layer
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier "Keyboard1"
   Driver "kbd"
   Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
   Option "XkbLayout" "be"
   Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier "Mouse1"
   Driver "mouse"
   Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
   Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier "monitor1"
   VendorName "Generic"
   ModelName "1024x768 @ 60 Hz"
   HorizSync 31.5-48.0.5
   VertRefresh 50.0-70.0

   # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.
   # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync
   ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630

   # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync
   ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616
EndSection

Section "Device"
   Identifier "device1"
   VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
   BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX series"
   Driver "nvidia"
   Option "DPMS"
   Option "DynamicTwinView" "false"
   Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Identifier "screen1"
   Device "device1"
   Monitor "monitor1"
   DefaultColorDepth 24

   Subsection "Display"
   Depth 8
   Modes "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
   EndSubsection

   Subsection "Display"
   Depth 15
   Modes "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
   EndSubsection

   Subsection "Display"
   Depth 16
   Modes "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
   EndSubsection

   Subsection "Display"
   Depth 24
   Modes "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
   EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
   Identifier "layout1"
   InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
   InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
   Screen "screen1"
EndSection

Convert OpenStreetMap / OpenMTBMap for Mac

2009-07-19T12:29:00.000+02:00

Download a map.osm data file using the openstreetmap export tab - it only seems to permit small areas.

This can be quickly converted into an img file by
java -jar mkgmap.jar map.osm

But for Roadtrip file you need to some more steps, but still using mkgmap.

java -Xmx512m -jar mkgmap.jar --tdbfile --gmapsupp map.osm

--tdbfile = requests a tdb file (a Garmin format for summary information) as part of the output
--gmapsupp = requests an img file (Garmin format to copy as gmapsubb.img to Garmin when connected via USB)

This should result in 2 img files and 1 tdb file.

These need to be fed into gmapibuilder. It is enough to use the GUI to find the tdb file and the rest is automagically filled in. Pressing "Convert" results in a gmapsubb (presumably just a renamed version of 63240000.img and an 'OSM map.gmapi' file.

OpenMTBmap promises some nice maps, but the instructions for converting to Mac format cannot be directly followed. Instead...

Setting up LAMP stack on Mandriva 2009.1

2009-04-13T08:57:00.000+02:00

I used the LAMP task in RPMDrake to get everything installed and then configured by hand:

Set HOSTNAME=simonpc.xxx.xx in /etc/sysconfig/network and reboot
Using RPMDrake to install the MySQL server - why this is not included in LAMP I do not know

Add a Mysql password: mysqladmin -u root password 'passwordyouwant'
Configure phpmyadmin.

Using RPMDrake to install: apache-mod_userdir
Copy over mysql database from previous install

Wifi access point configuration

2008-12-30T18:00:00.000+01:00

I "borrow" quite a lot of wifi on holidays etc. so I wanted to offer free access back, albeit in my 'burb. But I can't just open my router as that would make it too easy to hack into the computers in the house on my network. But I think that if I add a wifi card to a Linux computer (Mandriva 2009, kernel: 2.6.27.7), I should be able to set the firewall only to let traffic through destined for the Internet and to block all attempts to access local machines.

Drivers

I have a spare D-Link Airplus G DWL G510 wireless pci, which reports containing a RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g chip.

I first thought all I needed to do was use iwconfig:

iwconfig wlan0 essid test mode master

but that resulted in:

Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.

It seems as though rt2x000 drivers for my card are under development, but that a howto exists.

Simply adding "driver = nl80211" to the hostapd.conf that comes with Mandriva 2009 (which I presume is necessary given that the howto is all about compiling driver) led to
Line 17: invalid/unknown driver 'nl80211'

So it looks as though I need to recompile hostapd with nl80211 included. Mandriva comes with libnl 1.1, which seems to be the latest. The latest development code (Hostap 0.6.6) compiled OK, but the git code did not.

Running as a user gives
ioctl[SIOCSIFFLAGS]: Permission denied

While as root
# ./hostapd -dd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
ctrl_interface_group=0
Failed to set interface wlan0 to master mode.
nl80211 driver initialization failed.
wlan0: Unable to setup interface.
rmdir[ctrl_interface]: No such file or directory
ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=5 eloop_data=0x84a3848 user_data=(nil) handler=0x8079420

As so off to the forums, which led me to this post. I needed to rebuild the mac80211 module, with a patch attached. This guide covers creating the necessary .config file , while instructions to build a single module are here. In other words

cd /usr/src/linux
cp /boot/config .config
make net/mac80211/mac80211.ko
gzip net/mac80211/mac80211.ko
rmmod rt61pci
mv /lib/modules/2.6.27.7-desktop586-1mnb/kernel/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko.gz /lib/modules/2.6.27.7-desktop586-1mnb/kernel/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko.gz.orig
cp net/mac80211/mac80211.ko.gz /lib/modules/2.6.27.7-desktop586-1mnb/kernel/net/mac80211
modprobe rt61pci

Firewall
The main thing to do to a stock mandriva internet sharing shorewall configuration is to add a rule reading to drop all traffic from the hotspot aimed at the subnet used by the computers in the internal network:
DROP loc net:192.168.0.0/24

Backing up to an external drive

2008-12-27T20:51:00.000+01:00

rsync to a ext partition

rsync -av --delete --exclude=.* /home/ /media/Linux/mirror/

-a : archive mode; equals -rlptgoD

rsync to a FAT directory
As they don't support permissions and perhaps some of the linux timestamps, rsync always saves everything with a normal archive save, but this set me on a better direction.
rsync -avrtD --delete --exclude=.* /home/Archive/Music/ /media/FAT/Music

Plasma crash at login

2008-11-02T09:57:00.000+01:00

I'm still finding KDE 4.1 more than a little bit flakey, but this at least saved me having to delete all my .kde settings

Mandriva 2009

2008-10-18T07:46:00.000+02:00

KDE 4 may be the future but it's not easy.
A few things that helped along the way

Export OS X Address book to Thunderbird

2008-03-06T06:53:00.000+01:00

I tweaked the script at incisive geek so that it could deal with longer notes (with carriage returns) and with commas in fields and to add code for extra emails and multiple mobile phones.

My version is here.

Export Outlook addresses (to Linux/Mac)

2008-03-04T19:48:00.000+01:00

Took me several steps to get outlook addressbook ready for Thunderbird and OS X Addressbook.

1) Export CSV - e.g. to all.csv

2) Convert to utf (thanks): iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t utf-8 -o all-utf.csv all.CSV

3) Use openoffice to change the email display names into a regular first name surname
I used this formula: =CONCATENATE(B2;" ";D2) on each row

4) Use kaddressbook to import csv file (Thunderbird has an outlook import wizard in its windows version,but it does not catch very much information).

I only had to tweak the outlook template a little to get it to import all the email addresses. By default it uses the "email display name" field as as the "display name" - hence the reason for step 3.

5) Export as ldif

6) Import ldif into Thunderbird.

An alternative is to use a Yahoo! mail account.

Tags: outlook, thunderbird, address book

Export Outlook to iCal

2008-02-21T15:34:00.000+01:00

I'm not sure exactly but I think export2ical did not take into account letters with accents etc. Luckily I found this - http://www.mhsoftware.com/bin/iCalConvert.msi - which seems to work as expected.

Centralised Mac addressbook using LDAP (2)

2007-12-02T12:01:00.000+01:00

This time I just used the Mandriva wizard to setup the LDAP database and password, and added

include /etc/openldap/schema/abxldap.schema
include /etc/openldap/schema/apple.schema

to slapd.conf. I then had to enable the following in the samba.schema:
acctFlags, pwdLastSet, logonTime, logonTime, kickoffTime, homeDrive, scriptPath, profilePath, userWorkstations, smbHome, rid, & primaryGroupID.

Then I was able to upload from my Mac addressbook using ABxLDAP.

Centralised address book using LDAP

2007-07-22T15:03:00.000+02:00

This was my starting point, but Mandriva provides a wizard to get this started. In retrospect they were not entirely compatible as they use different naming conventions. I used the online info but changed "addressbook" into "People" "Manager" into "root".

I needed to add the Thunderbird schema. I found a useful script to help convert the ldif export from Thurderbird so that it can be ldapadd-ed. The last line needed to be changed to:
s/objectclass: mozillaAbPerson/objectclass: mozillaOrgPerson/;

To enable Mac's Addressbook.app to read, I need to add the apple.schema to my ldap.conf. I then need this on how to rearrange it and had to uncomment several elements in samba.schema.

To enable uploading of address info from the Mac I turned to ABxLDAP.
This did not work out of the box, but the author advised to use the old abxldap schema for the time being and (aside from endless config mistakes on my side) worked.

The end result is, however, not yet satisfactory. I don't at the moment see very careful synchronisation. If I capitalise a letter in a name for example, that does not seem to be propagated (although the address book is now right). Likewise, I seem to get entries left in the LDAP server even when the original has been deleted. But it does seem to be a useful start.

Printing from Mac to Linux

2007-06-19T22:04:00.000+02:00

With Apple using (and owning) CUPS, this should be the obvious way to set up the print queue. Once I discovered that i could surf to http://printserver:631/ and set up ipp URIs either using the Apple GUI or at the command line all was well.

The Macbook also found the printer on the Linux box when shared using samba, and seemed prepared to use the CUPS drivers on the Linux box (I could tell because I have an iPixma 3000 - see below - that is not supported out of the box by OS X Tiger). However, I needed to add an entry to /Private/etc/hosts for the IP address of the Linux box in order for queued files to be sent across from the Macbook.

smb.conf in Mandriva 2007.1

2007-06-04T09:16:00.000+02:00

I could not get access to shares using the smb.conf setup by draktools or KDE until I added:

smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd

That enabled me to see localhost, but I still could not get access from another computer and it was not a firewall issue as I had the smb.conf from my previous install that works fine

Linux OSX file sharing

2007-06-04T09:15:00.000+02:00

Getting my new Macbook to see my main Linux box turned out to be rather complicated.
I followed this guide to begin with. I just had to change a few names for a Mandriva system:

the config file is /etc/netatalk/netatalk.conf
to add directories that can be accessed use /etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default

This provided instructions on using howl, but that has been deprecated in favour of the avahi that is installed with Mandriva. The rest of the instructions I used were these, including the creating of

/etc/avahi/services/afp.services (a file with this name now comes with Mandriva 2009.1)

Apple advise that you need to open port 548 on your firewall.

iPixma 3000

2007-06-04T09:14:00.000+02:00

Mandriva used to include drivers for the iPixma 3000 but the 2007.1 Spring edition did not. Although text printing with the BJC7004 did work fine, I discovered that this site provided great info about where to find the drivers.

There were some dependency issues, and I had rpm them using --no-deps and then fix the missing library issues by linking
libxml2 to libxml.so.1; and
libpng.so.3 to libpng.so.2
and then it worked.

Next I'll take a look at the enhancements he suggests can be achieved by editing the config files.

Tags: printer, canon, iP3000

avisynth.dll

2007-03-03T08:50:00.000+01:00

Having looked at this, I noted that trying to run

$ mplayer 131254.m3u

gives

Playing 13100867.m3u.
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/win32/avisynth.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/avisynth.dll
Seek failed

Interestingly
$ mplayer -playlist 131254.m3u
does work. mplayer does not seem to be good at detecting a playlist

Thunderbird: links not opening

2007-02-10T14:12:00.000+01:00

In Mandriva, Thunderbird uses gnome-open to open links. Unfortunately for me, that did not work and always caused errors that I could not diagnose:

There was an error launching the default action command associated with this location.

However, I found a work around here.

Clark Connect & transparent bridging

2007-02-05T21:49:00.000+01:00

I finally had a decent computer come free that I could turn towards a proper content filtering home router using Clark Connect. The software installed pretty easily and I got the content filtering up and running without much difficulty.

However, unlike M0n0wall which I had been using previously, CC does not support bridging out-of-the-box. I need that so that my cable company's Set-Top Box (STB) can sit behind the firewall and yet still get transparent access to the dedicated DHCP server for STBs.

  
Internet --- DHCP server ------ eth0 ------- eth1 -------- Home network
             (public IP)     |            |
                             |            |
             DHCP (server) ---  *bridge*  -- eth2 -------- TV set-top box
             (Private IP)

First I need to download bridge-utils using these instructions. That got them on to my computer from where I had to copy to the router:
$ scp bridge-utils-0.9.3-8.i386.rpm root@192.168.7.1:/tmp
and then install using rpm

Next I took a look at these very basic instructions but my attempts to implement a bridge manually did not work.

The rest is work in progress on the bridge and Clark Connect forums.

Drakmenusystem

2007-01-21T08:23:00.000+01:00

This seems obvious in retrospect, but I somehow managed to change the menu system in Mandriva 2007.0 to the traditional, multi-layer system. I wanted to get back to the "Discovery" menus with their single layer. In the Control Centre there in an option for this but it only changes the settings for root. I had to run it as a user in order to get it to take effect locally.

Obvious really!

Tags: Mandriva, menu

Myst Masterpiece Edition on Win2K

2007-01-13T14:38:00.000+01:00

1. Activate Win2K compatability mode by typing the folloing into a command line:

regsvr32 %systemroot%\apppatch\slayerui.dll

2. Then open the properties of the start icon and turn on Win95 compatability.

3. Myst does not run with QT7 (from iTunes), and needs QT4, that is provided on the install CD. I had to uninstall before I could install this. Then you install QT4, and copy QuickTime.qts into the myth masterpiece edition. Then you need to run iTunes install again and choose the repair option.

Mandriva automounting samba shares

2006-10-01T11:09:00.000+02:00

Welcome to JustLinux: Wanna learn Linux?
This was a useful site for how to edit fstab so that when Mandriva starts up it mounts smb drives not wiht root but with my usename so that I can copy to and from this share

Recording from Line-in

2006-06-22T21:34:00.000+02:00

What an effort to record from line-in - converting a cassette into anMP3. I have a soundblaster 5.1 and use the snd-emu10k1 module.
I'm not sure exactly what the magic combination is but it seems toinvolve some or all of the wave, line and linedrive inputs and thecapture (almost felt as though i had to turn capture off andon to getit going again).
See if i can get it working faster tomorrow now I have some clues

Putting a Telenet STB behind a smoothwall

2006-06-03T20:41:00.000+02:00

My digital TV set top box needs a specific IP address to offerinteractive functionality. In order to install it, the companyused netgear powerline equipment to connect it to a router between themodem and firewall (behind whihc lie all the computer sin thehouse). I wanted to put the STB behnd the firewall so that Icould re-use the powerline equipment to get broadband to my son'sbedroom.

Here is the thread that gave me some help.

In the end I discovered that the transparent bridge option in monowall would do it.