Webmin on debian

A web-based interface for system administration for Unix. . Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely. It's easy to install:

# su
Password

Download from:
http://www.webmin.com/

# dpkg --install webmin_1.580_all.deb

It's slow...to install

Maybe you need to install dependencies:
# apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl apt-show-versions python

Login:
https://localhost:10000/

Use your root to login

In case of error:
# apt-get -f install

more info:
http://www.webmin.com/

To allow access form internet you need to open the TCP ports 10000 and 80 of the Firewall of your router.

Disable USB pen drives

I have windows XP and Windows 7 workgroup with 15 avid workstations. I don't want that users use pen drives and external hd because virus and so on. To control i have disabled the usb ports from reading pen drives. To do that  simply make the permissions on the following files set to Deny:

C:\Windows\Inf\Usbstor.pnf
C:\Windows\Inf\Usbstor.inf

You need to go tools folder options then view and disable "Hide protected operating system files (Recomended)"

Pure and simple!

Avid Media Composer Export Project

Hi, work all day with avid at a school. We have a Unity Server and 15 Avid Media Composer PC's. Sometimes students ask me to take the project they made to home. With avid is not so easy. I have to consolidate all media to a new drive and copy the project and have duplicated media and have to delete older and so on..There are a couple of payed options but now there is a free!
It's Automatic Duck Media copy works on mac and pc

New in Media Copy version 3.0 s the ability to read Avid AVP and AVB files-- those are Avid project and Avid bin files! You can use Media Copy as a project archive tool, read your Avid bins and copy all of the media those bins are using!

So a easy way to copy media!
http://automaticduck.com/products/mc/

exFAT - Mac Windows and Linux

When there is the need to share a drive between a Mac and a Windows PC the natural choice is FAT32, but the fat32 is limited to maximum of  4 Gb for file. So easy alternative is exFAT. 

Apple added support for exFAT to Snow Leopard version 10.6.5.

ExFAT is available on Windows Vista with Service Pack and Windows 7 by default.
On Windows XP users can also install ExFAT with an optional download from Windows Update available where:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=19364

On Linux the support is limited.

It's manual mount. But you have to install exFAT Fuse from software update
and python-fuse, libmono-fuse-cil and gvfs-fuse.

Now in terminal
make a directory on media to mount the drive:
#su
password
# mkdir /media/pen

To see the partion name
# cat /proc/partitions
for example my is sdb1

then: 

# mount.exfat-fuse /dev/sdb1 /media/pen

now it will appear on desktop

to eject
# umount /mnt/pen

More information about exFAT:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT

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/

Apple Magic Trackpad on Windows 7

I have my PC connected to my 42" LCD and i do need a easy and comfortable way to control my PC.

The Apple Magic Trackpad is the best for that use. Apple says that is only compatible with windows but it can work with a Windows PC using the Bootcamp drivers. You can't have Multi-Touch but its a simple mouse.



To install pair the Apple Magic Trackpad with windows. After that install this drivers:

Use the x86 for 32bit OS or use the x64 for 64bit OS.

And thats it!
You can scroll horizontal and vertical, double click, drag and drop and second click.
For drag and drop, just activate in control panel, mouse options Turn on Clicklock.

Apple Keyboard on Windows

The great Apple Keyboard works out of the box
in Windows but the layout is not correct in
Portuguese keyboard.

Keys like § ± < > º ^ ~ + * are in wrong place.

I have search on web and i was unable to find the layout.
So i have download the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator
and built my own layout.

Before proceed install the original Apple drivers:
x86 and 64 Bit


The layout file is here

1 - Unzip and install.
2 - Go control panel
3 - Click in Region and Language
4 - Click on Keyboards and Languages Tab
5 - Click on Change Keyboard...
6 - In Default input language box select Portuguese (Portugal) - Apple Keyboard
7 - Click OK
8 - Exit and reboot
9 - That's all


If you have a different language you can install my layout and open in Microsoft Keyboard Layout creator and change the keys and built the install program. It's easy.

Enjoy;)

Must have Open Source - Mac and PC

Open Office
Forget Microsoft Office you don't need it most people will be filled with this one.
http://www.openoffice.org/

vlc
A great player that can handle vrtualy any format
http://www.videolan.org/

Firefox
A great multi platform browser
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.htm

Thunderbird
Email client
http://www.mozilla.com/

Fruux (mac only)
Address, notes and bookmark sync for Mac OSX
http://fruux.com/

Perian (mac only)
Open strange formats in quicktime with subtitles
http://www.perian.org/

Flip4Mac (mac only)
open wmv on quicktime
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/flip4mac.mspx

Mpeg Streamclip
Broadcast quality video converter
http://www.squared5.com/

UnrarX (mac only)
great rar extractor
http://www.unrarx.com/


7 Zip (win only)
Utility for manipulating archives
http://www.7-zip.org/

CuteWriter (win only)
pdf printer
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/CuteWriter-Download-12692.html

Filezilla
ftp client
http://filezilla-project.org/

uTorrent
tiny Bit torrent Client
http://www.utorrent.com/

AppCleaner
free mac uninstaller
http://www.freemacsoft.net/AppCleaner/

XLD (mac only)
audio decoder
http://tmkk.hp.infoseek.co.jp/xld/index_e.html

Chicken of VNC (mac only)
simple VNC client
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/

Real VNC (pc only)
free vnc client and server
http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/download.html

Live Stream

Firewire field monitor on PC

Sometimes on set i need a monitor solution to my camera. If i have a mac i can use a simple free amp called FlipFlop. The site is no longer available, so you can have it here. And connect you camera to mac via a simple firewire cable and use the mac as a field monitor.

But if you have a PC you can use VLC Player. Connect your camera to pc and open vlc. Select media and open capture device. In that window click refresh list on video device name, select AV/C Subunit and hit play.

Now you have a great and free field monitor on your PC!