Doing some research and I can’t believe Gnome3 has the same STUPID look as MacOS OMG!!!

What innovation  you see at copying the same OS from MAC. I remember the days when the Linux desktop looks innovating and it was pleasure to work with so many options. Now everything is going the Apple way.

I felt depressed is there around at least one windows manager which is not influenced from Apple?

I hate Dock launchers -  looks not innovating – it looks clumsy and old. Everything which is copied clumsy!

Gnome3 – you are going on the same path as Unity!

Windows7 – is 100 times better because it has its OWN LOOK AND FEEL – I’d rather work with windows7 than on a Gnome3/Unity. Blah!

The solution?

Xfce desktop is now closes to what Gnome was

I’ve got a few servers in different places around the country and try to monitor them using the logwatch utility.  One problem that I’ve run into however is that a few of these servers are not able to send their logwatch emails to me, based on email restrictions by the ISPs.  I spent some time this afternoon researching what was required to have my servers authenticate to my gmail account and send me the mail that way.  This setup assumes Ubuntu 8.04 (or later) and Postfix.

Install the required packages

sudo aptitude install postfix libsasl2 ca-certificate libsasl2-modules

Configure Postfix

This tutorial will not outline how to configure your postfix server, but we’ll jump directly to the relayhost section.  You’ll want to add the following lines to your /etc/postfix/main.cf file:

relayhost = [smtp.gmail.com]:587
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtp_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/cacert.pem
smtp_use_tls = yes

The above lines are telling Postfix that you want to relay mail through gmail on a specific port, telling it to authenticate, and where to find the username and password.  The last three lines specify the authentication types supported, where the certificate authority file is and that it should use tls.

Define Username and Password

Next we’ll need to populate the sasl_passwd file.  Create the file /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd with the following contents:

[smtp.gmail.com]:587    user.name@gmail.com:password

This file should have restrictive permissions and then needs to be translated into a .db that Postfix will read.

sudo chmod 400 /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
sudo postmap /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd


At this point you can restart Postfix and it should work, however it will complain about not being able to authenticate the certificate.  To take care of this issue we’ll use the ca-certificate package we installed and tell it where it can validate the certificate.

cat /etc/ssl/certs/Thawte_Premium_Server_CA.pem | sudo tee -a /etc/postfix/cacert.pem

Go ahead and reload postfix (sudo /etc/init.d/postfix reload) and you should be set.

• CIS Benchmarks – contains requirements from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks.
• DCID – contains requirements from the Director of Central Intelligence Directives (DCID).
• DISA UNIX STIG – contains modules that address DISA UNIX Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) security recommendations.
• FERC CIP – contains modules that address the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards for electricity distributors.
• JAFAN – the Joint Air Force-Army-Navy (JAFAN) manual established the security policy and procedures for storing, processing, and communicating classified Department of Defence (DoD) Special Access Program (SAP) information in information systems.
• NISPOM – contains modules that address the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM).
• PCI DSS – Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council includes members from Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, and JCB International Credit Card Company. This council administers the Data Security Standard (DSS).
• Web Services Protection – contains modules that address standard security functionality to provide protection.

IBM tutorial

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution
• cvt 1680 1050 75
• xrandr –newmode …the output from cvt
  xrandr –newmode “1680x1050_75.00″ 187.00 1680 1800 1976 2272 1050 1053 1059 1099 -hsync +vsync
• xrandr –addmode DVI-0 1680x1050_75.00

Lenovo Y510

You have to install the latest alsa.

Then replace the existing kernel modules with the just build one. Then run depmod -a as point kilbasar here

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=687663&page=2

sudo su
cd /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/ubuntu/media/snd-hda-intel/
mv snd-hda-intel.ko snd-hda-intel.ko.bak
ln -s /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/ubuntu/media/snd-hda-intel/snd-hda-intel.ko
cd /usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.16rc2/modules
cp * /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/sound/
depmod -a

Logitech Revolution MX

http://x4.6times7.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/devlog/blog/howto_logitech_mx_revolution_on_ubuntu

• The mouse wheel control
  • Download from here http://goron.de/~froese/revoco/ or revoco-0.5.tar
  • make
  • sudo ./revoco manual=6
  • lets try to add it in ~/.xprofile next time
    

• Here is my xorg.conf

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "External DVI"
 # 1680x1050 74.89 Hz (CVT 1.76MA) hsync: 82.31 kHz; pclk: 187.00 MHz
 Modeline "1680x1050_75.00"  187.00  1680 1800 1976 2272  1050 1053 1059 1099 -hsync +vsync
 # 1680x1050 59.95 Hz (CVT 1.76MA) hsync: 65.29 kHz; pclk: 146.25 MHz
 Modeline "1680x1050_60.00"  146.25  1680 1784 1960 2240  1050 1053 1059 1089 -hsync +vsync
 # 1680x1050 69.88 Hz (CVT) hsync: 76.58 kHz; pclk: 174.00 MHz
 Modeline "1680x1050_70.00"  174.00  1680 1800 1976 2272  1050 1053 1059 1096 -hsync +vsync
 Option "PreferedMode"    "1280x1024_75.00"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier    "Configured Screen Device"
 Device    "Configured Video Device"
 SubSection "Display"
 Depth    24
 Modes "1680x1050" "1024x768" "640x480"
 Virtual    2960 1050
 EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Device"
 Identifier    "Configured Video Device"
 Option    "Monitor-DVI-0" "External DVI"
EndSection

My Development setup commands

I noticed simillar post here

sudo aptitude install mc vim subversion screen pidgin meld curl links2 vim-ruby vim-gnome vim-doc vim-scripts vim-ruby vim-perl \
subversion git-core bluefish kompozer\
libmysqlclient15off libmysqlclient15-dev mysql-common mysql-client \
libmysql-ruby1.8 irb ruby1.8 rdoc ri rake \
apt-utils build-essential ruby1.8-dev mysql-server memcached libxslt1-dev libpcre3-dev zlib1g-dev unzip gzip mytop openssl \
libopenssl-ruby libmagick9-dev imagemagick librmagick-ruby1.8 imagemagick librmagick-ruby-doc  libmagick9-dev ruby1.8-dev \
libdbd-sqlite3-ruby libsqlite3-ruby sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev

ln -s /usr/bin/ruby1.8 /usr/bin/ruby

mkdir ruby_install
cd ruby_install
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/60718/rubygems-1.3.5.tgz
tar xzvf ruby*
cd rubygems-1.3.5
ruby setup.rb
cd ..
cd ..

ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/bin/gem

gem install rails mysql mongrel mongrel_cluster rails paperclip will_paginate andand \
json feed-normalizer hpricot mechanize ruby-debug uuid ruport ruport-util acts_as_reportable \
rufus-scheduler annotate openwferu-scheduler production_log_analyzer capistrano-ext libxml-ruby twitter capistrano wirble RedCloth
rspec-rails sqlite3-ruby \
--no-ri --no-rdoc

gem install rmagick -v 1.15.12
ruby -rrubygems -e "require 'RMagick'; puts Magick::Long_version;"

cat > /home/guda/.irbrc
require 'rubygems'
require 'wirble'
Wirble.init
Wirble.colorize
require 'logger'
if ENV.include?('RAILS_ENV') && !Object.const_defined?('RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER')
Object.const_set('RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER', Logger.new(STDOUT))
end

Gmail notification

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/10/06/gmail-notifier-applets-for-ubuntu/

What about http://ubuntu-tweak.com/

http://www.espace.com.eg/neverblock

http://m.onkey.org/2008/11/17/ruby-on-rack-1

http://m.onkey.org/

http://www.gnome-db.org/Download

http://loriholden.com/

http://www.bestechvideos.com/

Flex

• http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/total_training_ch1.html#
• http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/learn/programmer/learningpath.html
• http://www.deitel.com/ResourceCenters/Programming/AdobeFlex/AdobeFlexVideos/tabid/1699/Default.aspx

http://conference.startup-bg.org/2008/?page_id=696

http://ganglia.info/?page_id=66

ntop

The reason I am posting this link is that sometimes I really need and want to connect to my desktop machine in this way but I cant find good software. So I decide that my blog is the perfect place to note this.

xserver

Configuration

/etc/screenrc

  multiuser on
  acladd root mongrel

Some options that you can put in the Screen section

/etc/X11/xorg.conf
Option “NoLogo” “True”
Option “RenderAccel” “True”
# This turns on NVidias TwinView
Option “TwinView”
# Option “MetaModes” “1280×1024″ “1152×864″ “1024×768″
# LeftOf, RightOf, Below, Above, or Clone.
# Option “TwinViewOrientation” “LeftOf”

It was time taking for me to find why the password authentication doesn’t work, and aways rejects my passwords.

• I have used the screen System => Preferences => Remote Desktop to change the password.
• I have tried  also to change/hash it directly in ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/remote_access/%gconf.xml

But it doesn’t work because I have another version of VNC server installed on my Ubunto box. When I have removed the ~/.vnc directory vino-server manage to login with the passwords