A new build of Tomboy for Windows
Tomboy 1.9.7 was released last week. This release was a special release just for Windows. The release addresses issues with synchronization.
Have fun and feel free to report any issues.
ZCM Remote Control Scale!
I’m sure this has been out for a while, but I just found that I can scale the remote session window. For me this week, this find is a life-saver!
Tomboy Mono 4.0 and Ubuntu
There’s a very important tip for compiling and running Tomboy on Ubuntu.
Ello has something to say about this.
Ello,
This is a quick public service announcement. Earlier today, ajmitch reminded me of a little gotcha that exists around Mono applications in Ubuntu 11.10. As a five second summary, in 11.10 the Debian Mono team switched the default runtime version from 2.0 to 4.0. This involved recompiling (and sometimes patching) all libraries and applications in the distribution with the new verison.
You can read more here. http://orangesquash.org.uk/~laney/blog/posts/2011/10/mono-gotcha/
The point for Tomboy though, is that you can make a simple fix in the shell script to get around this. Here’s an example of what you need to Launch Tomboy.
mono –runtime=v4.0 Tomboy.exe
We are looking to fix this in future releases though.
SOPA – Walking away from work
Today I’ve read several articles about Amazon, Facebook and Google possibly going black in protest of SOPA. My first thought was cool! Then I realized that this could affect me. So I counted how serious I was about this and realized that I would be willing to protest SOPA by calling out of work for a day.
I’m serious enough about this, that I would forgo a day of work/pay in protest of SOPA. It is a serious and ludicrous thing.
Google, Facebook, Amazon May Go Black in SOPA Protest http://www.osnews.com/story/25473/Google_Facebook_Amazon_May_Go_Black_in_SOPA_Protest
The Definitive Post On Why SOPA And Protect IP Are Bad, Bad Ideas
Why the ESA is Wrong to Support SOPA
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/01/05/why-the-esa-is-wrong-to-support-sopa/
Tomboy Debug – add-ins on MS Windows 7
Recently we have been having issues with Tomboy and add-ins not loading when running Tomboy on Windows 7.
I’ve dug into this some and believe I have a fix. I am providing a ZIP for you to test with if you like.
Installation Steps:
- Extract the ZIP to a directory of your choice. (a folder debug-2011-12-16 will be created)
- open the folder debug-2011-12-16
- launch Tomboy.exe
You should now have all the add-ins.
md5sum 414711bd88e518d37c3f72e2b8cc96ab
Novell releases ZAV 9.0
EDIT: Novell is releasing ZAV 9 beginning of next year. The Novell news article lead me to believe that it had been released.
Novell’s powerful Application Virtualization product has just released a new version. You can read about it here
Silent Uninstall of InstallShield Applications – Oracle Primavera
Today I had a refresher on silently uninstalling an application that was installed with a setup.exe. The nitorious Oracle Primavera appliation had been installed with silent switches, but the only method I could find for uninstalling was using the Install Shield /uninst switch.
setup.exe /uninst
ZCM If Folder (Directory) exists
Since ZCM does not contain a requirement rule “If Folder (Directory) exists” like it does for File Exists, it is good practice to make the action “Continue On Failure”.
Otherwise if the folder already exists, the bundle installation will fail.
OpenSuSE NVIDIA Driver Updates
Yesterday (Oct 27, 2011) I downloaded and installed what I thought was the latest version of the NVIDIA drivers from NVIDIA.com, but I started have video feezes and crashes all day long. Plugging in the NVIDIA installer help I found the –update option.
–update
Connect to the NVIDIA FTP server ‘
ftp://download.nvidia.com ‘ and determine the latest
available driver version. If there is a more recent driver
available, automatically download and install it. Any
other options given on the commandline will be passed on to
the downloaded driver package when installing it.
Well this sounded good to me, so I tried it. WHAT DO YOU KNOW! It worked and downloaded a very much newer version than what I was running.
Example:
sh Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-270.41.06.run –update
Run Script COMSPEC
Today I found (slapped myself) that the /C switch for cmd (%COMSPEC%) is VERY important when used with a Run Script action.
Can you guess why?
