another all nighter ... and some things working right.

By basd on Nov 29, 2009 | In kde4, linux, opensuse, cloud computing

Well, this all nighter was spent sleeping, after a trip to visit the snow in Big Bear and a nice Himalayan meal. But as of this a.m., I am happy to report the iFolders experiment is now a success.

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and, btw, it's working with the data store on my external usb drive, so that's good. OpSu 11.2 upgrade messed up fstab, so my windows partitions were not available, which was a further problem with my email -- since although my email is all IMAP, the local folders are on the windows partition so I can access them from windows as well. I think the ntfs-3g tool fixed it, I ran that and mount -a, and my windows partitions seem to have reappeared. I rescued the "sunlight after rain" wallpaper from another computer, so my screen is now back to familiar territory (not that it mattered).

Someone left a blog comment that ESPN360 was working for them in Virtualbox 3.10. I just upgraded to 3.12 from 3.08 and sure enough, ESPN360 is working. Not that there is anything in specific I wish to watch, it's more of the principle of the thing.

Now I need to put OpSu 11.2 on my netbook, since the new kernel might get the wireless card to work under linux.

Another minor disaster solved -- my brother MFC9840CDW printer locked up because it is [allegedly] out of color toner. In my view, toner is gone when I say it is (and that is when I can't read the printout). I tracked down some re-sets for other brother printers and this one was actually a bit easier -- open front panel, get "door open" prompt, press "clear/back", which provides a "re-set" menu. A bit tedious, as there are several to re-set, but printer worked thereafter.

The most annoying part was that I have a fairly new black toner cartridge and don't need to print in color anyway.

This was a useful tutorial on ifolders -- http://www.diwi.nl/node/50

As noted earlier, I had some trouble deciphering how to get the https part of the apache server working, but once that was solved, the rest of the steps worked well. I'm using iFolder 3.8 from the OpenSuse Build Service.

BTW, I wanted to comment on an earlier blog post -- I hope that both the PowerFolder folks and Novell are successful with their business model(s) and I appreciate the software they (and other programmers/businesses) provide as Open Source. My own personal "business model" -- if you could call it one -- does not have IT services in the budget, otherwise I'd be happy to spend the $$. OTOH, I spend endless hours getting stuff to work and that is not a path most people can (or should) follow. Open Source is hopefully a win-win whereby IT places and programmers can make a decent living and we all can have really wonderful software at the same time.

YaY!

Oh, BTW, I think OpSu 11.2 is faster than 11.1.