Series60 Remote

 Ubuntu 9.10  No Responses »
Jan 312010
 

update: now there is a .deb package! go to downloads and get the .deb

cd ~/Downloads
wget http://series60-remote.sourceforge.net/counter/getfile.php?id=12
sudo dpkg -i series60-remote*deb

original post:
http://series60-remote.sourceforge.net/
found here

sudo aptitude install python python-obexftp python-matplotlib python-bluez python-qt4 python-qt4-sql sqlite3 libqt4-sql-sqlite
cd ~/Downloads
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/series60-remote/series60-remote/0.3.90/series60-remote-0.3.90.tar.gz?use_mirror=ovh
tar -xf series60-remote-0.3.90.tar.gz
cd series60-remote-0.3.90/

You can test the installation before you install it:

cd pc
./series60_remote.py

If you want to install the application just run

./setup.py install

This will create the folders /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages/series60_remote and /usr/share/series60-remote and a wrapper script in /usr/bin/series60-remote on Linux.

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mkisofs

 Ubuntu 9.10  No Responses »
Jan 172010
 

To produce an ISO image of a directory (with -J Joliet extensions; with -r Rockridge extensions; with -R Rockridge extensions preserving rights and ownerships; with -V to set the Volume-ID)

mkisofs -J -R -o image.iso -V "Data Backup" folder/data

More information to be found in Linux User, 6/2006 p. 102 (German).

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LaCie 4L / LightScribe Software on Linux

 Ubuntu 9.10  No Responses »
Jan 122010
 

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10803

Resources

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Genealogy on Linux using GRAMPS

 Ubuntu 9.10  No Responses »
Jan 082010
 

Installation:

sudo aptitude install gramps

Start the program in German when the rest of my distribution is in English:

LANG=de_de.utf8 && gramps

resources

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Flash BIOS via flashrom Linux Tool

 Ubuntu 9.10  No Responses »
Jan 032010
 

http://www.flashrom.org
http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/BIOS_aktualisieren (German)

check current BIOS version:

sudo aptitude install dmidecode flashrom

To get the bios version run:

sudo dmidecode -s bios-version

When I run flashrom on my laptop (HP nx8220) I get:

$ flashrom
flashrom v0.9.1-r706
No coreboot table found.
Found chipset "Intel ICH6-M", enabling flash write... OK.
This chipset supports the following protocols: Non-SPI.
Calibrating delay loop... OK.
Found chip "SST SST49LF008A" (1024 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff00000.
No operations were specified.

And on my desktop it reveals:

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