Comments for Jesse Caulfield

Comment on Ubuntu VNC Key Mapping Errors by jesse

jesse — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:43:17 +0000

Wolfgang Scherring @ wosc.de contributed this comment:

“You can perform the same setting without the graphical gconf-editor using the following command (e.g. via SSH):

gconftool –set /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd/layouts –type List –list-type String [aa]”

Anyhow, thanks for writing it up, that saved me some major headaches.

Wolfgang

Comment on Automounting USB Drives in Debian Linux by jesse

jesse — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:51:08 +0000

One important thing I missed: You MUST edit the FS_MOUNTOPTIONS line. If not, the drive will be mounted read only. Add the following FS_MOUNTOPTIONS:

FS_MOUNTOPTIONS=”-fstype=vfat,gid=floppy,dmask=0007,fmask=0117″

Lastly, make sure you’re in the ‘floppy’ group. It’s used here because it’s historically the default group for user read/write access to floppy drives.

% id

You should see (floppy)

Comment on Elisa - a Python-based Media Center from Fluendo by jesse

jesse — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 02:41:02 +0000

Update - the Python 2.5 requirement was odd - the Debian package auto installed 2.5 but runs on 2.4. Anyway, it seems to work fine “out of the box”, or “right off the apt” if you will.

One peeve - in it’s current state Elisa only renders media found via uPnP. That’s cool for when Elisa is part of a larger system, but during development I’d like to see a shim allowing to read from the local file system.

Comment on A Few Notes about the CableCard by Net Think » Blog Archive » OpenCable Unidirectional Receiver - The OCUR

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:42:02 +0000

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Comment on Blogdesk by jesse

jesse — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:00:18 +0000

So far, Blogdesk is the clear winner. It’s the only blogging client that can upload images to Wordpress. If only there were a Linux version.

Comment on Changing Gnome Defaults: Icons and Themes by jesse

jesse — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:45:34 +0000

If you’re searching, searching, searching for that special key/value pair, you can find it with gconftool-2.

To view the schemas:
% gconftool-2 –all-dirs /
/desktop
/apps
/GNOME
/system
/schemas

To dump the entire XML file for brute force grepping:
% gconftool-2 –dump / > gconf.out.xml

Comment on Changing Gnome Defaults: Icons and Themes by jesse

jesse — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:42:35 +0000

To change the default screensaver, edit the file
/usr/share/gconf/defaults/10_gnome_screensaver

I like popsquares, so enter that one inside the brackets. Looks like this:

/apps/gnome-screensaver/themes [popsquares]

Comment on Building your own Linux LiveCD by jesse

jesse — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:56:52 +0000

Update: grub on a flash drive is a little more complicated than I made it out to be.