Mem-Blog WordPress Menggunakan Drivel di Ubuntu

Drivel ( A LiveJournal client for the GNOME desktop) adalah salah satu aplikasi blogging di Linux. Drivel memungkinkan kita untuk menulis bahkan dalam keadaan offline, sehingga kita dapat dengan mudah mem-publish tulisan yang telah kita buat sebelumnya (offline) ketika kita sudan online.

Drivel mendukung beberapa blog server terkenal, seperti Advogato, Blogger xmlrpc, Movabletype, Drupal,WordPress dan lain-lain. Karena saya menggunakan WordPress sebagai blog saya, maka berikut adalah konfigurasi drivel untuk menggunakan Wordpess sebagai server:

1. Pasang dahulu drivel, bila belum terpasang pada system (di sini saya menggunakan Ubuntu)

$ sudo apt-get install drivel

2. Luncurkan drivel (Alt+F2 > drivel)

Isikan Username dengan nama user WP kita. Begitu juga passwordnya.

Pada isian “Journal type” pilih “Movable Type” pada menu drop-down.

Lalu pada server address, isikan http://halaman_wp_kita/xmlrpc.php,

contoh: http://abz89.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php

3. Tekan Log In, maka kita sudah siap me-WP, (bila ingin membuat draft dulu ketika offline, tekan Work Offline)

Terima Kasih, semoga bermanfaat.

Bugs: GNOME Settings Daemon on Hardy

The following message are appeared after I upgrading my Hardy:

There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.

Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly.

The last error message was:

Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-n9Y8sWjrkS: Connection refused

GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in.

It’s always appeared every system log in. My desktop appearance is look so bad. But when I reinstalling dbus, dbus-x11 and purging some setting (like delete .dbus directory on my HOME dir, etc), it never comes again

Bugs: Compiz python on Hardy

Yesterday, when I “downgrading” my Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid-Ibex to Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy-Heron LTS. I’ve found a bug after upgrading my Hardy via repositories, I can’t launch ccsm.

When I launch ccsm via terminal, the following message is appeared:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File “/usr/bin/ccsm”, line 38, in <module>

import compizconfig

ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/compizconfig.so: undefined symbol: ccsGetPluginStrExtensions

I’ve tried fix it with reinstalling compizconfig-setting-manager, but it comes with a null. So I tried navigating to /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ to find a compizconfig.so, but it’s already there. Because I have no knowledge about linux programming, so I assume that my compizconfig.so are damaged or what.

Then I go to http://packages.ubuntu.com/ to find which package that have compizconfig.so inside. Iyaap, I found it, the package name is python-compizconfig.

Finally I fixed it with reinstalling compizconfig-setting-manager and python-compizconfig,

$ sudo apt-get purge compizconfig-setting-manager python-compizconfig

and

$ sudo apt-get install compizconfig-setting-manager python-compizconfig