I know that I will have some hard time when using Ubuntu after conversion from Windows Yeah. It hit me today when I want to read a mail with winmail.dat attachment. After some research, I learned to install tnef. Once tnef has been installed, execute tnef winmail.dat . A rar file will be output to [...]
Open winmail.dat in Ubuntu
February 25th, 2009
vlc + avi + srt not displayed
February 19th, 2009
Sharing of the day. Keep wondering why my subtitle (srt) cant be displayed when I watch my avi movie with VLC. Though it was not compatible in Ubuntu whereby I was using XP last time which displayed well. Ah Hah. I got the luck solving the problem by edting a file /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop . Just need [...]
MPD error: problems getting a response from "localhost" on port 6600 : Connection refused
February 16th, 2009
Additional sharing for conky part which I shared at http://marslert.com/blog/2007/10/02/conky/ . I was trying to install conky to monitor my laptop process as I found that my firefox keep hogging. The installation is pretty simple and straight forward as any ubuntu users knew Unfortunately, I got problem for this installation whereby some MPD error was [...]
apt-get update
February 16th, 2009
Sometime, you will get GPG error when running apt-get update after adding some unofficial supported list to your Ubuntu list. W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 28A8205077558DD0 After researching around, found a fix for this kind of situation. Type in, gpg [...]