My computer has been running slowly periodically, and so, that leads me to ask the question: what is the problem? Here’s my tool of choice:
You can launch it either from the terminal or with Alt+F2 and typing “gnome-system-monitor”. You can sort the processes by clicking on the column title. I find it helpful to sort by the CPU and the Memory.
I have one problem with the Garland Theme that I chose for this website is that it doesn’t have a link the RSS feed for readers to subscribe. No worries: the AddToAny plugin comes to the rescue. Then, you can add a subscribe button as a widget.
Now, I have the subscribe button on the right side:
When you mouse over it, it opens up with the subscribe options:
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No one probably needs instructions on how to move a blog from one site to another, but this will give me a chance to try out my new site. I am moving from my old location on WordPress.com to my new personal website. So, here it goes:
In tinkering with my time tracking application, I needed to choose colors. I found a couple of sites that helped with that. I am not sure how well it turned out, but that is not the sites’ fault. Here’s the links:
Email security is always very important. The Google Operating System blog posted a great security checklist for GMail. As suggested in the post, you can head on over to Google’s security list first, then wrap up with checking the final list of items in the post.
So, check out:
Google Operating System: Gmail’s Security Checklist
After all, you can’t have too much security consciousness out there.
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.
About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 30,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj Mahal, it would take about 4 days for that many people to see it.
In 2010, there were 70 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 207 posts.
The busiest day of the year was October 21st with 166 views. The most popular post that day was Webex in Ubuntu 8.10.
The top referring sites in 2010 were code.google.com, android-developers.blogspot.com, ubuntuforums.org, google.com, and funwithlinux.wordpress.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for webex linux, webex ubuntu, linux ports in use, iso to usb linux, and ubuntu webex.
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Webex in Ubuntu 8.10 February 2009
12 comments
Bootable ISO to USB Drive November 2008
2 comments
Linux Alternatives for OneNote October 2008
1 comment
WebDav and fstab September 2008
2 comments
Webex in Linux August 2008
1 comment
Yesterday, I ran across a product called a GuruPlug while reading the comments for this article. I hadn’t heard of anything like this before, but it sounded like something our church could use.
Here is the thought: Our church has been having issues with the sound equipment going out. I wondered about using PulseAudio servers and clients to create a network of speakers throughout the auditorium. Using GuruPlugs would provide a cheap computer to hook speakers into.
The GuruPlug appears to run a version of Debian Linux. PulseAudio should run on that with no problems. From what I can tell, it looks like it runs about $100. Then, we would need a USB soundcard, maybe like this one. One of the comments mentioned someone getting it to work on Ubuntu 9.10 with no problems. Right now it is on sale for $17. Then, all we need is a pair of speakers, maybe like these for $5. This brings the whole client system to about $125, which isn’t too bad.
I found another person who looked like he was running PulseAudio on the GuruPlug: Linux Plug Computers as Music Servers. Does anyone else have any thoughts? Have you tried anything like this? Do you know of other devices that are similar?
Since I am using Eclipse with my Google Code projects(Project Shaphan & Project Sarah), I did some research to see if I could connect Mylyn and found this project: GoogleCode Mylyn Connector.
To install it, I had to add this URL to the install sites:
http://knittig.de/googlecode-mylyn-connector/update/
Then, it installs through the Eclipse installation tool.
Next, I added a repository with the “New Task” menu on the right side of the Tasks view. This walks through the wizard.
For some reason, I get the following error: “could not execute query”. Then, I found this Issue. The solution is to use the regular Google Account user name and password that you would use to login to GMail as opposed to one you would use to connect via SVN.
I just noticed in the release notes for Chrome the mention of Web GL . So, I looked up some instructions to enable it.
I am running Ubuntu Linux, and I installed Chrome from the Deb package. It created a shortcut in my Applications Menu. So, I went to the menu editor, and edited the shortcut for Chrome. I changed the shortcut from this:
/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome %U
to this:
/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome –enable-webgl %U
When I first started this post, the examples that I found didn’t work. But, when I tried tonight, this example actually worked.
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Ok, time for a quick break. I saw SuperTuxKart had a new version, and I wanted to try it out a long time ago. I never could get it to compile — there was a dependency that I only saw in Windows. When I got the SourceForge newsletter recently, it reminded me to check again. They have a Mac version for download, so maybe it will work.
Packages I installed for dependencies:
configure: error: cannot find useable OpenAL installation. You need to install OpenAL.
libopenal-dev
checking for library containing ov_open… noconfigure: error: cannot find useable Ogg Vorbis installation. You need to install libogg and libvorbis.
libogg-dev, libvorbis-dev
configure: error: Can’t find irrlicht installation in standard prefixes, use –with-irrlicht…
libirrlicht-dev, libirrlicht1.7
Finally, all the packages are installed. Now, “./configure”. Next, run “make”.
Now, it tested fine with “./src/supertuxkart”.
Since, it worked, I did “sudo make install” to install it.