Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Why Are My Legs Aching

Rockbox 3.5

developers of the system for portable released version of the RC (Release Candidate) latest ROCKboksa 3.5. If the tests a candidate to successfully pass the stable version, will be released stable version.

main novelty is to be a passage of the following players to the stable and official support:
- SanDisk Sansa e200v2
- SanDisk Sansa Fuze

v1 Rockbox 3.5 RC can be downloaded from here

Update: Released version 3.5 stable ROCKboksa which You can download it here:
http://www.rockbox.org/download/

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Bridal Shower Congrats Phrases



In this article I will describe the work you dock PD01X Dell's running Ubuntu 9.10. To this end, I will use presented my previous laptop Dell Latitude D610.


Specifications:
- built-in 130W power supply
- Ports: 4xUSB, LAN, LPT, DVI, VGA, 2xPS / 2, S-Video TV-Out, S / PDIF, COM
- 1xPCI
- Multibay Connector (DVD, extra HDD, Multibay battery charging)
connector - Dell D / Bay

Works m.in from
Dell Inspiron: 500m, 510m, 520m, 600m, 610m, 8500, 8600, XPS M1710
Dell Latitude: D400, D410, D420, D500, D505, D510, D520, D531, D600, D610, D620 , D630, D800, D810, D820, D830 Dell Precision Workstation
: M20, M2300, M4300, M60, M6300, M65, M7090

the occasion of holding the docking station PCI slot, I put there, sound card, Creative Sound Blaster (which I will try to describe in the near future). Laptop, which debuted at this station is a Dell Latitude D610 .


Buying the Alledrogo.pl , includes the same station was just without the CD (although the total was unnecessary), and without the power cable as it was "clover" . It reminded me that it has an old laptop that my pink wire in the power supply had. So it "borrowed" , but that no one realized suddenly "deterioration" laptop, I decided to do a replacement cable. It was a cable called the euro that the construction is very similar to a cloverleaf, with the difference that it has no ground and do not fit the outlet cloverleaf . To fit, you must przepiłować measure so that the two connectors are dismissed. With the help of strong pilników all your work is going along with the screaming pilników fingers took about 20 minutes, so we have gained the cable fits into the slot clover.



After connecting all the necessary (and the unnecessary), cable and hook your laptop into a docking station decided to run the entire platform with the POWER switch located on the station.
first step is to enter the BIOS and check the options for cooperation laptop station. In the Power Options prompt appears on the use of a power supply with a power of 130W. When the battery status while the third appeared in "bottle" with the battery, something amazing! But joy quickly subsided after learning of the possibility of charging only the connector, which after some reflection, it seems to be quite normal, because it would be hard to move around the entire base transceiver laptop which is hooked under his command center.



Interestingly, there is also an option to boot from the PCI slots, which seems to be a plus. I ran my Ubuntu 9.10 and started a test: I turned on the player and started listening to music ... to the point: In normal use channels started to disappear, right, left, behaved as if the card had some distortion and total suspension of the requested equipment, and flows out the card was a loud squeak sound, turned off all frightened by holding the power button to shut the laptop. Oddokowałem, unplugged everything. She turned the card with the PCI port, and again, more slowly and it installed a back there and ran all over again. Immediately after booting I started to look for logs and found:

Jan 14 5:24:06 p.m. Garhuy kernel: [264.937237] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason b1 on CPU 0th

proved to be a hardware problem, so the system was not anything to blame, and helped save it from damage. From now on throughout the week write down the card well, which proves that installed a wrong card ... Strange.


you can undock the laptop to live under Ubuntu? Of course, yes. Just press the button on the dock, "ejection laptop and switched on the laptop can be removed from the station. But there is a problem: The system notifies the dmesg, it lost the sound card and can not find it. I decided to connect the laptop back, back on the cable internet and power, but could not find cards like that are no longer found it helped to restart.


As a result of lsusb after fitting station dock, a new USB hub giving us a total of 6 USB ports! (2 on a laptop and 4 stations)

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b: 0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 413c: 8103 Dell Computer Corp.. Wireless 350 Bluetooth Bus 003
Device 001: ID 1d6b: 0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus
004 Device 001: ID 1d6b: 0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus
005 Device 001: ID 1d6b: 0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus
001 Device 005: ID 09da: 0006 A4 Tech Co., LTD. Optical Mouse WOP-35 / Trust 450L Optical Mouse
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 413c: 0058 Dell Computer Corp.. Port Replicator
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 413c: 0058 Dell Computer Corp.. Port Replicator

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b: 0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub


If you have any questions about the station, write in the comments.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

How To Put A Plate On A Home Made Trailer Ontario



small music players, mistakenly called "mp3" allow us to enjoy an infinite number of (at least until battery) music wherever it will take time with headphones.


biggest drawback of most portable players is limited functionality, which generally looks like this:
- playing
- scrolling
- change tracks
- off and on

majority of mass responsible enough these features available in players sold in the shops.
But what should be done by the player but he could possess the above features plus:
- good equalizer
- Channel balance
-
stereo widening - change the bass and treble
-
karaoke - Crossfade
- Dithering
- Gapless
- Advanced scrolling options, and play
- ReplayGain
- send he heard music to Last.FM
- advanced management and sub-screen
equipment - manage folders and library
- about 43 languages \u200b\u200b(including Polish)
-
voice menu - change the appearance of menus and playlists
- about 37 different games
- about 19 tools (calculator, notepad ...)
- about 15 visualisations (including browser-known albums to iPods)
- convert *. wav to *. mp3
... and more features?


reading some of the features you feel that you are reading a review of the operating system and you're wrong.
Rockbox - an open operating system for portable music players. Working with a similar idea of \u200b\u200bhow GNU / Linux, but not based on Linux!
Before its installation, you must first find out whether this system will work on your player. Holders player called "MP4" can at most read this article.
To check whether your player is on the happy list of supported check here:
http://build.rockbox.org/

I having two of its players: iPod Nano (first generation) and a SanDisk Sansa Clip (first generation ) I became the happy owner of a better system for them. On the basis of the write ROCKboksa installation in a stable (for iPod) and a version of the Development (the clip).


If you saw your player on this page, you can proceed to install.

WARNING! After analyzing the information on the Internet of warranty by installing ROCKboksa miss an opportunity to claim the item. To recover WARRANTY can be removed later ROCKboksa (described at the end)

first Stable Version With
UBUeasy repositories you can install the tools you need one button:


The second way is to download the tools available , select your system, download, unzip and run dwuklikiem file.
Then select your player, go to the Maintenance Installation Install and run the bootloader.
After this you get a stable version ROCKboksa
here (at the time of writing is version 3.4) .

Copy the unzipped folder. Rockbox (valid for the period at the beginning!) To the root folder of the player.
With the iPod had to reset the player to force it to restart the To this end, both pressed menu and middle button until the player shuts down and then loaded with Rockbox.






second Development Release
Here we already have a ready soft with modification to run ROCKboksa. Soft
Clipa 01.XX.XX firmware can be downloaded here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/491388/rockbox/clip/stable/r22695-090913-1.1.32a-dual_boot.zip

Soft 01.XX.XX Fuze firmware can be downloaded here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/491388/rockbox/fuze/fuzev1.rar

WARNING! Rockbox does not work on Clipie the firmware version number 02.XX.XX and Clipie +, as well as the Fuze player with the firmware number 02.XX.XX. The unzipped file

m300.bin thrown into the root folder and grab Clipa compiled for a version of it here:
http://build.rockbox.org/

unzipped folder. Rockbox (an important point at the beginning!) To Clipa root folder, then the device is disconnected from the computer will update the firmware and turn off the player. Now, just turn on the player, who has now present as Rockbox.




Then there is the problem: what happened to the original firmware on the players. The answer is simple: NOTHING! If you want to switch temporarily to a simple software, simply:

iPod Nano: a quick start and lock the keys before lighting up the backlight.
Clip: Running while holding the button narysowanym "Little House".



If you want to remove (but why?) ROCKboksa the player you need to reinstall the original firmware producers and then remove unnecessary folder already . Rockbox .

Friday, January 15, 2010

Hurts A Little When I Masturvate



StartupRoot is (very) simple program which is designed to run inscribed in its configuration file commands and programs with administrator rights, which is our ROOT.

Root, root, but who is this whole ROOT? Wikipedia answer yes:

" root (from English, literally, the root) is the traditional name for a Unix account which has full control over the system. The assumption root account should not be used for work, for which sufficient regular account with restricted privileges. It is important to safeguard your account password, and strong protection against unauthorized access.

root account entitles you to perform operations such as changing the owner of the file or open TCP / UDP port number less than 1024 In other operating systems is also used names such as Toor, superuser, supervisor, administrator or operator.

root name functions as a system administrator to determine whether the systems Unix and related (FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X). "

So much for theory, time to go to the practical part:

NOTE: This program requires interference file / etc / sudoers , so caution is required because one little mistake can cause a loss (but not always) an administrator account and the impossibility of re-editing the file / etc / sudoers !

recommend using repozytorii UBUeasy , allowing one-click below to install the package with the program:


traditional method to get the package to download it from here

After installation, edit the file / etc / sudoers necessarily by the visudo command where you enter or edit the following entry:

username ALL = NOPASSWD: / bin / startuproot

where instead of username give your name, for example franek .
Then we can easily add commands to the file / bin / startuproot .

WARNING! sure to add commands to this file have been conscious of origin because, unknown to run commands with administrator privileges can lead to instability and / or loss of data or system.

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Mouth Polyp In A Baby




Arta The present action of the Ubuntu 9.10 distribution otherwise known as the Karmic on laptop Dell Latitude D610 .

is a version of a laptop with a built-in Intel graphics card, the 915GM graphics model (otherwise known as GMA900)




Specifications:
Processor: Intel Pentium M 770 (2.00GHz, 2MB L2)
Memory: 1 GB PC -533 (max 2GB) Hard Drive
: 60 GB ATA-100 HDD
CD / DVD: DVD-RW
drive Display: 14.1 SXGA + TFT LCD with 1400 x 1050
Graphics: Intel 915PM
Sound Card: Intel AC'97 Audio Controller
Modem: is
Ethernet: Broadcom BCM5751
Fax: Intel PRO / Wireless 2200BG

Installation:
With the installation of Ubuntu, there were no problems, most components of operating immediately after the first run of the system.
was used to install my flash drive on which the recorded image of Ubuntu 9.10 using UNetbootin, which can be downloaded for Windows and Linux here. Because of the poor, already used the CD drive on this laptop, I could not install from a nice plate sent from ShipIt , where you can order nicely pressed by Canonical plate:)


cooperation of individual components of the system:
Overall hardware is stable under the care of our system.
first thing to throw into the eyes of a indicator is niepodświetlająca WiFi, but it is not a problem of its inclusion in a single command in the console (login first as root via the command sudo su ):
echo 1> / sys / bus / pci/drivers/ipw2200/0000 \\: 03 \\: 03.0/led
true that amazing? However, the change from 1 to 0 no gives off light, which is a pity, because the diode can be used for such notifications about new messages in the mail or IM:)

- Graphics Card :
Intel card works great, desktop effects, which are the responsibility Compiz-Fusion program works excellent, small but not shared with 8MB of RAM (max 128MB) looks very efficiently in Ubuntu. Works perfectly with KMS (Kernel Mode Setting)
problem arises from the performance, which is much lower than the previous release of Ubuntu, however, and this problem is to now easy to solve, just copy this setting to the folder / etc/X11 to enjoy the full capability of our integrin.

- Infrared
on this laptop can run any device, even weakly supported IrDA works perfectly, just install two packages: irda-utils and ircp-tray
After installing the packages should be in a terminal issue the following two commands:
sudo modprobe irda-usb
irattach irda0-s
Then restart your system for you to enjoy working on a laptop IR to send and receive files, run Ircp Tray located in the Menu Programs -> Accessories
rest of the equipment works perfectly and no longer requires effort.


Problems:
- Irritating sound when on battery
One day I noticed something strange, sitting at a laptop on the couch I noticed a squeak or irritating high frequency sound (called high-pitch noise ) while working on battery power. The cause of this sound is more responsible with ACPI power management and temperature. More technical details can be found on the pages describing Intel C-State Architecture .
How to get rid of this annoying problem?
As usual, very simple, edit the file / etc / default / grub the rights of root, and change the value in a line containing:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT = "quiet"
the
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT = "quiet pci = bios idle = halt acpi_sleep = s3_bios "


- heating up the CPU
processor that's in the laptop is warm, and at higher load in a moment turns into the radiator temperatorę reaching 75 degrees, while continuing to use reaches up to 83 degrees which is my current record.
certainly help him to work in better conditions and better service management fan for the processor in a laptop, which is possible thanks to the module called i8k you can install a package: i8kutils and gkrellm-i8k to graphical setting and policing the CPU temperature.
After installing the packages to load the module using:
sudo modprobe i8k
And run Gkrellm menu Programs -> System Tools -> GKrellM System Monitor settings and run the plug ę Dell i8k Plugin
order not ładowć module and program every time you start the system:
first must file / Etc / modules add i8k prior to entry lp
second Add program startup Gkrellm menu System -> Preferences -> Startup Programs
PROGRAM GKrellM must be running for our system to manage the fan, i8k module only allows the system to get to "wiercioszka" at processor.

- Opening hatch black matrix screen welcoming us
During the operation of the laptop when we close the hatch and open it again, the screen stops speak to us, it turns out to be quite well-known problem, apparently the cause of the problem is the BIOS and to our misfortune the last version which will not be repaired by Dell.
course, I'll show you how to solve it:

- Adjusting the speaker volume and headphones at the same time
In previous editions of Ubuntu was possible through the menu
System -> Preferences -> Sound
Yes, this version also contains the Sound Preferences, but now PulseAudio and not ALSA, which has been deprived of this function on my own I had to take care of it and failed, your work, you can install this package.


they tried to shove all the solutions here in one package to install it, you must configure my Ubuntu repositories available at www.ubueasy.tk
After setting up and refresh the list repozytorii Click on the button below and restart the system.

seems that it's all there, if new facts which I edited this Article.
This is my first post and I hope it is sufficiently clear. :)

EDIT (17/01/1910): I spent hotfix package lidswitch -dell, where the error lay in the fact that the backlight was run without break even after closing the damper. Persons who have set up a repository UBUeasy can upgrade the package.