Fix ActiveSync installation issue

Recently, i’ve bought a new PDA-Phone O2 XDA IIs which have a WM 6 installed as the operating system (:( why not linux??). When i’ve downloaded Microsoft Active Sync 4.5, the installation couldn’t works.

Here is the error message:

After a little googling, i’ve found the solution..

what we have to do is simply, just run “fixmapi” (via Windows+Run or CMD)

so the fixmapi will fix mapi32.dll which needed by the installer…

rerun the setup, and the installation will works!!

thanks to people on http://microsoft.net

Update pidgin to latest release in Ubuntu 9.04

Yesterday my pidgin couldn’t connect.  I don’t know what the causes, because my connection & the network setting does’nt changed. After googling a few hours, some site and forum tells there are some bugs in pidgin which installed via ubuntu repo. So i let update my pidgin to the latest which provided by pidgin server.

There are two ways to install, using source or update to pidgin PPA through apt. Cause i’ve good connection, so i’d like use apt rather than building from source (there are the compile and dependencies issue that i little don’t like :p) Here are the step to update our ubuntu pidgin to the depelovment version:

1. Launch the terminal, Alt+F2 type “gnome-terminal” without appostroph
2. Type the following commands, in two line separately:

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com \ 67265eb522bdd6b1c69e66ed7fb8bee0a1f196a8

echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu \ `lsb_release --short --codename` main | \
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pidgin-ppa.list

And now my pidgin can connect again!! yeahhh.

Reference:
http://pidgin.im

http://google.com :p

Quick Reference: Use Xwinwrap to Bring a Dreamscene to your Linux Desktop

Review:

Wonder to have a dreamscene like Vista on your Linux Desktop? Yes, we could. We may use xwinwrap (uses an xgl), it’s able to replace a desktop background with a movie or screensaver. Download here. But, if you just want to have a wet and splashy desktop, you may use xdesktopwaves.
In this article, I’ll explain about usage of xwinwrap only.

To use xwinwrap just install or compile (if we’ve *.tar.gz) don’t forget to install the dependencies such as mplayer to play a video, and you have an xgl and a “good” video driver, xwinwrap can run with compiz well.

Usage:

xwinwrap [-g] [-ni] [-argb] [-fs] [-s] [-st] [-sp] [-a] [-b] [-nf]

[-fl] [-o OPACITY] — COMMAND ARG1…

-g geometry

-ni no input

-argb argb, Alpha, Red, Green, Blues

-fs fullscreen view

-s sticky, on all workspaces

-st skip taskbar

-sp skip pager

-a above other application

-b below other application

-nf no focus

-o opacity, available value, between 0 and 1

Example xwinwrap commands line to use a video as our dreamscene:

$ xwinwrap -ni -o 0.6 -fs -s -st -sp -b -nf — mplayer -wid WID -quiet your_movie

NB: You may add -nosound line to run a video without sound.

Example xwinwrap commands line to use a screensaver as our dreamscene:

$ xwinwrap -ni -argb -fs -s -st -sp -a -nf — /usr/lib/misc/xscreensaver/glmatrix -root -window-id WID

You may change the screensaver, just change the apporiate screensaver to your installed screen saver on your system.

Thanks and good luck to use a Linux Dreamscene