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The wave 2

November 14, 2008 / / 0 Comments

This is a tiny blog that use several languages and has a kind of stable number of readers that I would like to thank.

So everytime there is a massive increase of the number of visits it’s always cool to try to find the reason.

This time this is what happened:

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From 30ish average readers on daily base to a peak of 496!

I was wondering why that happened when I figure it out:

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Yes, YANNB was the first hit on this google search .

It matters to be first on google, also if it is only for one really particular problem. And I’ve received one of the most rewarding comment till now. 🙂

It seems everytime I share a solution there is a lot of interest on that bit and it’s useful for some of the people out there like this one , in how to layout the partition on your harddrive (link in italian… if there is interest I can translate and post it again.)

However this post has been read not in one burst but during a long period (and ok, it’s also quite old so this can be biased).

This time was the second time there was a burst.

The first time happened when pollycoke linked me and all that traffic had clicked the link.

Skype and Ubuntu 8.10

November 9, 2008 / / 15 Comments

If you wondering why Skype is not anymore working with your new shiny Intrepid Ibex 8.10 you’re not alone.

It seems pulseaudio is somehow responsible for this bad behaviour. To bring back everything to the normal situation:

killall pulseaudio
sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio ubuntu-desktop

This should solve the problem. It worked here at least. 🙂

Update: I found out that only the command
killall pulseaudio
is enough.
After that you have to launch skype and it should work.

The annoying bit is that you required to do that every time you want to use skype…

OpenEverything London – Live Blogging

November 6, 2008 / / 0 Comments

9.35: Ok, I’m at the OpenEverything in London. I’ll try to do some live blogging.

Let’s see how it goes.

10:16: First presentation from Glynn Moody. Everything was Open and we lost it. Intelectual Property is a monopoly that stop innovations

11:15: Speed GeeK:

Late night: So it turns out the live blogging was impossible, too much stuff to follow, a lot of really interesting conversation.

Just pointing two projects that are really interesting:

  • www.open.ac.uk/openlearn – Open University. Well establish running and alive.
  • themis project — How to run a community and which way is the best to take collective decision. (Pre- alpha. No site yet, I will keep you informed)

Java and gtk error

October 14, 2008 / / 1 Comment

Problem: ugly program (no theme applied)
If you get an error like:

/usr/share/themes/Unity/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:41: error: lexical error or unexpected token, expected valid token

when you launch a java program under a GTK enviroment (GNOME) and the program looks really ugly or even it doesn’t start at all you may want to try the following..

Solution: Upgrade to the last 1.6 jdk.

To updgrade to the latest sdk in ubuntu follow this info:

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre

and select as the blessed ones:

sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun

check it:

java -version

If everything is ok launch you program 🙂

P.S.: Check that the program that you’re launching is not using a proper jre (so 1.5) otherwise all your effort will be useless.

Rhythmbox and firefox on hardy

October 5, 2008 / / 0 Comments

Just for the record, if rhythmbox hang when you try to see a video on youtube with firefox, or you cannot listen to the music anymore if firefox is running something where flash is involvedd the answer to all this troupe is called: libflashsupport

sudo apt-get install libflashsupport

At least it worked on my system.

Enjoy 🙂