To warn unauthorized users logging in via ssh, you can add a ssh banner.
Feb 272010
Feb 252010
AqBanking is used as a backend for gnucash and therefore very mature. It features a CLI to query CSV files of transactions and more.
There is a newer blog post on this subject: AqBanking CLI on Mac OS X with ING DiBa via HBCI
Installation on Ubuntu 10.10:
sudo apt-get install libaqbanking29 libaqbanking-plugins-libgwenhywfar47 aqbanking-tools libaqbanking-plugins-libgwenhywfar47 libchipcardc2 libaqbanking-doc
import settings from v.2 or v.3 to v.4
aqbanking-cli updateconf
or configure setup dialogue:
/usr/lib/aqbanking/plugins/29/wizards/qt3-wizard
usage
initialize the database
aqbanking-cli dbinit
transfer:
aqbanking-cli transfer -b 28250110 -a 1234567890 --rbank=28250110 --raccount=1234567890 --rname="Heinz Ketchup" -v "12,34:EUR" -p "VERWENDUNGSZWECK1" --usedb
display all transactions
Feb 212010
To delete a launcher for an installed Windows program via Wine just remove it from the directory ~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs.
Feb 192010
The tablet works well with Ubuntu karmic, this blog post describes my settings.
technical data
- Aiptek HyperPen 12000 U
- Dimensions 38.5 x 34.7 x 1.2 cm
- Work Area 304 x 228 mm
- Maximum Resolution 3048 lines/inch – 120 lines/mm
- Accuracy 0.2 mm (or 0.422 mm ?)
- Detection Distance maximum 8 mm
- Pressure Sensitivity 512 stages
- Number of Macro Keys 24
- Interface Type USB-Port
- Power Supply from the USB socket of the PC
- Operating Systems Win 98SE/ME/2000/XP
- AIPTEK Article Number 100016
installation
Get the required kernel module:
Feb 192010
NoteEdit
http://noteedit.berlios.de/
http://www.linux-user.de/ausgabe/2002/04/030-noteedit/noteedit.html
sudo apt-get install noteedit
LMMS
http://lmms.sourceforge.net/home.php
http://lmms.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
commercial Windows software
Sibelius
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=1124
FL Studio
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=178
good supplement: halion player with complete halion 3 sound database
Feb 162010
festival
manual: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/manual/
excellent
echo "Hello world!" | festival --tts
espeak
better than recite but not excellent
recite
resources
Feb 152010
may need libxine1-ffmpeg and/or libavcodec-unstripped-52 to work:
sudo aptitude install libxine1-ffmpeg libavcodec-unstripped-52
Also check out my older blog post on the Nova-T USB2.
Feb 152010
All of the following Firefox addons can be found directly on the Mozilla Addons Site.
Extremely useful, improving your browsing experience
- Adblock Plus This a great plugin to get rid of annoying ads of any kind on the web. It works against popups, flash banners, animated gifs any other text ads (Google AdSense) etc. Install it, and sign up for a list of filtered website elements with one click – done!
- Mouse Gestures Redox Open tabs, close tabs etc. with (right click-activated) mouse gestures.
Feb 132010
http://www.siltala.net/2007/11/18/getting-rid-of-duplicate-messages-in-evolution/
http://www.gnome.org/~carlosg/stuff/evolution/
cd ~/Downloads
wget http://www.gnome.org/~carlosg/stuff/evolution/remove-duplicates-plugin-0.0.4.tar.gz
tar -xf remove-duplicates-plugin-0.0.4.tar.gz
cd remove-duplicates-plugin-0.0.4
./configure
make
sudo make install
Could not successfully run the ./configure script. :(
Feb 122010
A link collection for howtos to convert mail stored in the mbox format to the Maildir format:
Perl Scripts
- mb2md.pl v 3.20 (requires the perl library
TimeDate) by Juri Haberland found on http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ (2006-05-07)- Usage example: http://www.akadia.com/services/converting_mbox_mdir.html
- Re published on github (in a gist): https://gist.github.com/962261
Combinations of Scripts
- Perl Script convert-and-create by Russell Nelson with modifications by Richard Welty. It also needs the shell script maildir-script.sh. Both are published on http://www.averillpark.net/Maildir/.
- I put a copy of it to a github gist.