iTerm, Screen & Linux is not playing well

Problem :

When connecting to Linux box and use screen from iTerm, the delete does not work as backspace. Rather, it function as delete key. Read the rest of this entry »

How to Convert Video Format from RMVB or RM to AVI in Apple Mac

You have downloaded a lot movies and videos in Real Player rmvb and rm format, and in a sudden you would like to convert rmvb or rm video files to avi in Apple Mac OS X version 10.4, aka Tiger. How can that be done? Read the rest of this entry »

ubuntu intrepid 8.10 – no sound after viewing flash webpage

Problem :

Sound was working fine until visit some flash website and all of sudden, all sound related apps (amarok, totem, pidgin & etc) are “mute” or no sound. Checking /var/log/message got these “pulseaudio[?????]: protocol-native.c: Warning! Too many connections (64), dropping incoming connection.”

Solution :

apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound

Viola!

ubuntu thunderbird with enigmail – error

Problem :

After the installation of thunderbird, opengpg does not work, complained about “Enigmail: Enigmime service not available”

Solution :

  1. shutdown thunderbird
  2. apt-get clean
  3. apt-get remove enigmail mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail
  4. apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail

Viola!

Microsoft Windows 2000 – Problem Starting Computer Management Console

When are you having problem to start up Computer Management Console, one of the error you will see in the Windows 2000 error log is;

“Temporary directory is not found or there is not enough disk space …”.

The error message means that Windows is unable to locate Temp Directory (temporary directory). In order to find out system default Temp Directory, Use “echo %TEMP%” to output System Default Temporary Directory folder configuration

If the Temporary Directory is not exist, create one at the sub folder.

Try again to launch your Computer Management Consol, it should works fine now :)