TMN ZTE MF632

The Broadband ZTE MF632 only works under Mac OSX 32bit. To use under Lion you need a 64bit driver, that portuguese cell carrier don't have. don't try to install the software that comes with the ZTE it will corrupt the Mac OSX. So i have found the updated driver and built a new install package. Also compatible with Mountain Lion 10.8.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/340441/ZTE%20Connection%20Manager%20Lion.mpkg.zip


Enjoy

CR2 RAW Thumbnails

The CR2 file is a RAW format from Canon cameras. To open this file you need  to have a software capable to handle it, like photoshop or lightroom. But when organizing folders and files on windows explorer by default don't show the thumbnails. Canon have a codec for this but only work under Windows XP, Vista and 7 x86 - 32bit.

http://software.canon-europe.com/software/0039964.asp


For people, like me that are using 64 bit windows the codec don't work. Thanks to God the is a free solution. Microsoft have made a Camera Codec Pack that is avaliable to 32 bit and 64 bit windows versions:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26829

After install, the Microsoft Camera Codec Pack enables the viewing of a variety of device-specific file formats in Window Live Photo Gallery as well as other software that is based in Windows Imaging. And also viewable in Windows Explorer.

No need to restart!

Input List

I'm a freelancer live sound engineer, and one thing that really matters is to be organized and prepare the show. Make sure everything works before the band come to stage to make sound check. And talking about organization i want to share a basic thing: The input list.





To Print, Adobe PDF:
PDF

To Edit, Microsoft Excel Template:
XLT

Enjoy and make good sound!

Linux Debian NTP Time Server

To provide a time server (ntp server) for internal network is very simple:

#su
enter your password




To install the ntp server software:
#apt-get install ntp ntpdate

then edit the configuration file:
#nano /etc/ntp.conf

On file, change only this settings:

For all clients, for example, on range - 192.168.110.0 - 255 have access.

# Clients from this (example!) subnet have unlimited access, but only if
# cryptographically authenticated.
restrict 192.168.110.0 mask 255.255.255.0

In this line put your reliable external ntp server. Just search google for a good one.
In this case i'am using the legal time server in Portugal. The Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon is the provider of correct time. The Time zone is WET (Western Europe Time) with +00:00 hours of time zone offset. http://www.oal.ul.pt/

There is another one the NTP Pooling Project located at http://www.pool.ntp.org.
The NTP Pool is a collection of over 220 NTP servers distributed over the world.

# If you want to listen to time broadcasts on your local subnet, de-comment the
# next lines. Please do this only if you trust everybody on the network!
#disable auth
#broadcastclient
server ntp02.oal.ul.pt
server ntp04.oal.ul.pt


safe (control + x, and yes to save) and exit.
To update time on server just do this:

#ntpdate ntp02.oal.ul.pt

restart service
#/etc/init.d/ntp restart

then:
#ntpq -p

That's it!

To configure client:
On Linux client go to Gnome "date and time" and put the ip of your server.
On OSX open "system preferences", then date & time and put the ip of your server.
On Windows go to "date & time" on control panel and put the ip of your server under internet time.

Simple!

Firefox 8 on Debian Squeeze

To install firefox 8 on Debian, download from mozilla web page. Then:

#su

enter your password then:

# apt-get remove iceweasel

Go to directory of the download firefox file and then

# mv firefox-8.0.0.tar.bz2 /usr/lib/; cd /usr/lib/; tar -jxvf firefox-8.0.0.tar.bz2; ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

change the name according to the version downloaded

#rm -rf /usr/lib/firefox/plugins; ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins /usr/lib/firefox/plugins

to create a icon:

Second mouse click on "Applications" under the internet menu add item.
command: /usr/lib/firefox/firefox

to run firefox as root to install updates:

#chown -R /usr/lib/firefox

Enjoy ;)

Nvidia on Debian Squeeze

I have installed the new debian squeeze and to get my 3 displays working in the right way i have to install the nvidia driver.

Enter in terminal

#su

password

#nano /etc/apt/sources.list

add

deb http://debian.hands.com/debian/ squeeze main non-free contrib

deb-src http://debian.hands.com/debian/ squeeze main non-free contrib

press control + X

Press "y" to save

then

# aptitude install module-assistant nvidia-kernel-common

# m-a auto-install nvidia-kernel

# aptitude install nvidia-glx

# aptitude install nvidia-settings

# aptitude install nvidia-xconfig

# nvidia-xconfig

reboot

enter nvidia-xconfig as root and edit setting save to X configuration file

exit x

and enter!

Dropbox on Linux Debian

The Dropbox is a great application to keep your documents in sync on multiple computers and works on Mac OSX, windows, Linux, ios and soon in android. And you can go to dropbox page and access your files. Get your at www.dropbox.com

How to install on linux?



Download dropbox "...tar.bz" file in download section

Then:

# su

Enter you password

# nautilus-dropbox-0.6.7.tar.bz2 /usr/lib/; cd /usr/lib/; tar -jxvf nautilus-dropbox-0.6.7.tar.bz2

# apt-get update

# apt-get install libnautilus-extension-dev libnotify-dev python-docutils

# cd nautilus-dropbox-0.6.7

# ./configure

# make

# make install

# dropbox start -i

After that dropbox is going to download the files (wait..) and just follow the wizard to complete.

Mac OSX mount share at login

On Mac OSX how to mount a share (smb, webdAV, nfs, apple share) at login and don't open finder for each share?

Use apple script application in utilities folder and add this for example:



mount volume "smb://user:password@ip_or_name_of_server/share"

or

mount volume "smb://DOMAIN\user:password@ip_or_name_of_server/share"

or

mount volume "smb://ip_or_name_of_server/share"


If you need more share add more then save as application. Then:

Go to system preferences, accounts, select user and add this application to login items. Now every time you login with that user the system will mount this share.

Nvidia driver on Debian Lenny

How to install Nvidia driver on Debian Lenny

To download the most update driver visit:

http://www.nvidia.com/page/drivers.html

You need additional drivers to compile the driver:

# apt-get update

# apt-get install binutils module-assistant build-essential pkg-config xserver-xorg-dev

exit the graphic mode by pressing:

CTRL+ALT+F1

#su

Enter your password

# /etc/init.d/gdm stop
# m-a update
# m-a prepare

# sh NVIDIA-Linux....

Accept the questions

Reboot the computer and that's it!

SMB Print on Linux, Unix or Mac!

To add a SMB printer from a Windows Server or Client that have a local printer shared use the cups configuration page on you linux or mac or unix:

Open

http://localhost:631


Select add printer

Select smb printer

in URL put:

smb://DOMAIN\User:Password@ip_of_server/Printqueuename

or

smb://User:Password@ip_of_server/Printqueuename

or

smb://ip_of_server/Printqueuename

then, select the printer driver

and print a test page.

for more information visit:

http://www.cups.org/

VPN Client Debian Lenny

How to create a simple VPN connection to a Windows or other VPN Server on Linux?

In Debian Lenny is very simple:




#su

Enter the root password then:

#apt-get install openvpn

#apt-get install kvpnc

after that open kvpnc on Applications/internet

and configure your VPN. Click connect!

For up to date open VPN visit

http://openvpn.net/