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ZCM Remote Control Scale!

Jared — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:55:46 +0000

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

Jared — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:32:58 +0000

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.

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

Jared — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:38:18 +0000

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

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111122/04254316872/definitive-post-why-sopa-protect-ip-are-bad-bad-ideas.shtml

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

Jared — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 05:03:09 +0000

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.

Download here

md5sum 414711bd88e518d37c3f72e2b8cc96ab

Novell releases ZAV 9.0

Jared — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:38:57 +0000

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

Jared — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:45:26 +0000

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

Jared — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:54:25 +0000

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

Jared — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:32:03 +0000

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

Jared — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:17:42 +0000

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?

Firefox Extension for Tomboy

Jared — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:26:00 +0000

There has been a Firefox Extension that allows you to create Notes from Firefox. It hasn’t been updated in a while, so here is the new version until we can update it on Mozilla.

Download Tomfox for Firefox 7 Here:http://t.co/3onhbZhJ

The MD5SUM 91001985b6e67d26c76a3170817c54e8

The update has been tested on OpenSuSE 11.4 and oneiric (Ubuntu Release).