World Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth

The World Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth has begun in Bolivia this week. I can't find major US news coverage about it. Seems like they are avoiding it. I would think an event that 15,000 people from about 130 countries are expected to attend is considered world news.

Props to Democracy Now and the Huffington post for actually covering this.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/21/bolivias-peoples-conferen_n_546310.html

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/21/headlines

Installing M-Audio Ozone on 64 Studio / Ubuntu Hardy

I had to install the drivers for my M-Audio Ozone again today and thought I would put the steps in a nice little package here.

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install madfuload
$ sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/42-madfuload.rules

Comment or delete it all out and put in this line:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0763", SYSFS{idProduct}=="2808", RUN+="/usr/local/sbin/madfuload -l -3 -f /usr/local/share/usb/maudio/ma008100.bin -D $env{DEVNAME}"

$ sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart

Plug in and power on the Ozone.

$ dmesg |tail
should see a line like "usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio"
$ aplay -l
You should see the Ozone listed as a sound device.

Happy jammin. :)

Oil change and some breakfast hash

So I needed to get an oil change and since my warrenty was up at Freeway Ford, where we bought our 2007 Focus, I decided to find a place in the neighborhood. I dropped my address, search for nearby auto places and Action Auto came up. It had some good reviews and sounded like a family run shop so I decided to try it out.
The service was great and the price was good. I got to meet one of the two brothers that run it and told me that their dad has owned the place for thirty some years. While I waited for the work to be done I walked across the street to try out the Citizen Cafe for some breakfast.
I got the roasted vegetable hash with a fried egg. It was a delicous blend of potatoes, carrots and parsnips(which were mighty sweet) and a perfectly over easy runny yoked egg on top. To top it all off they served me some house made hot sauce. I have to get back their with my wife to try some dinner or even break fast again. Yum Yum. :)

Gmail and GMX Imap in Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0

I keep having to track down IMAP settings for my two mail accounts, so I am putting them in one place.

Gmail:
Incoming Mail (IMAP) Server - requires SSL: imap.gmail.com
Use SSL: Yes
Port: 993
Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server - requires TLS: smtp.gmail.com (use authentication)
Use Authentication: Yes
Use STARTTLS: Yes (some clients call this SSL)
Port: 465 or 587
Account Name: your full email address (including @gmail.com) Google Apps users, please enter username@your_domain.com
Email Address: your full Gmail email address (username@gmail.com) Google Apps users, please enter username@your_domain.com
Password: your Gmail password

GMX:
Incoming server: imap.gmx.com

Port: 993

Uncheck TLS

Username: yourname@gmx.com

Outgoing server: mail.gmx.com

port: 465

SSL on

Username: yourname@gmx.com

Citrix ICA client on Linux, solving the missing Thawte Cert

When you install the Citrix presentation server client on Linux(ICAClient), it is missing an important file. To get the missing file do the following:
-open a terminal
brian@64studio:~$ cd /usr/lib/ICAClient/keystore/cacerts/
brian@64studio:/usr/lib/ICAClient/keystore/cacerts$ sudo wget www2.slac.stanford.edu/computing/windows/services/citrix/downloads/ThawteRoot.crt

Now, you can open Citrix app with harmony. :)

Installing Eclipse Galileo 3.5 on 64 Studio aka Ubuntu Hardy

The eclipse package that is in the repo for 64 studio is the old 3.2 from Ubuntu Hardy.  Let's get the newer Galileo Eclipse installed. Start by opening a terminal and installing the needed Sun Java packages.

brian@64studio:~$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts

Download the latest package of your desired variety from http://eclipse.org/downloads/.

brian@64studio:~$ tar xvfz eclipse-jee-galileo-SR1-linux-gtk.tar.gz

Your version may differ here.

brian@64studio:~$ sudo mv eclipse /opt/
brian@64studio:~$ sudo chown -R root:root eclipse
brian@64studio:~$ sudo chmod -R +r eclipse
brian@64studio:~$ sudo chmod +x `sudo find eclipse -type d`

brian@64studio:~$ sudo touch /usr/bin/eclipse
brian@64studio:~$ sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/eclipse
brian@64studio:~$ gksudo gedit /usr/bin/eclipse

Paste the following into the file:

#!/bin/sh
#export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/mozilla/"
export ECLIPSE_HOME="/opt/eclipse"

$ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $*


brian@64studio:~$ gksudo gedit /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop

Paste the following into the file:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Eclipse
Comment=Eclipse IDE
Exec=eclipse
Icon=/opt/eclipse/icon.xpm
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=GNOME;Application;Development;
StartupNotify=true

Depending on your Java situation, you may have to tell it what version to use:
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-and-setup-eclipse-with-suns-java.html

Start it up with:
brian@64studio:~$ eclipse
or goto applications > Programming > Eclipse!

Thanks to these pages for their help!
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EclipseIDE
http://knol.google.com/k/hemanth-h-m/java-and-eclipse-on-ubuntu/28s5hvh66sr3n/6#

Installing ArdourXchange on OS X for Ardour / Harrison Mixbus

I will go through the steps to install ArdourXchange on OS X to be used with Ardour(http://ardour.org/) or Harrison Mixbus(http://mixbus.harrisonconsoles.com/).

First, we need to get Wine(http://www.winehq.org/) installed.  MacPorts is an easy and safe way to build and install Wine on OS X. Follow the instructions here(http://www.macports.org/install.php) to install MacPorts. Note, you will be required to install Apple's Developer Tools from your OS X DVD or download it from ADC(http://developer.apple.com/) if its not installed already. Once MacPorts is installed, open a terminal and enter the command below.

$ sudo port install wine

This will run for a bit, and usually starts the big fan on my MacBook while its building. You should see an output like below if all goes well.
---> Computing dependencies for wine
---> Fetching wine
---> Verifying checksum(s) for wine
---> Extracting wine
---> Applying patches to wine
---> Configuring wine
---> Building wine
---> Staging wine into destroot
---> Installing wine @1.0.1_3
---> Activating wine @1.0.1_3
---> Cleaning wine

To test try getting the version(yours may differ).

$ wine --version
wine-1.0.1

Now run the ArdourXchange setup.exe, note your path to the EXE may differ:

$ wine Downloads/setup.exe

Once the setup has finished, start up Mixbus and AAF files will show up in the open session dialog. Opening them will start the ArdourXchange(http://www.avtoolkit.co.uk/) conversion.