Evolution segfaulted with the following line in messages

[   56.897763] evolution[6320]: segfault at 0 ip b6a45d07 sp bff95824 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.1800.2[b69e9000+b5000]

It turns out that importing fails on the ev-summary files in ~/.evolution/

The solution is deleting those ev-summary files. They will be regenerated by evolution. Because I have dozens of folders in my evolution I used the following line:

find ~/.evolution -name *ev-summary -print0 | xargs -0 rm

after that  evolution works just fine.

My install is a CentOS 5.2 installation but it should work under any fairly recent Linux distribution

Setting Poptop VPN for Iphone is done in just four steps:

1 Installing Poptop on your linux server

Some distributions already have pptpd, if not you can install it from source with the following steps.

Download the latest pptpd from Sourceforge.

Unpack pptpd, configure and run make install:

tar -zxvf pptpd-1.3.4.tar.gz
cd pptpd-1.3.4
./configure
make
make install

2 Configuring pptpd (poptop)

Now we need to configure the different files used by pptpd to setup up for the vpn:

/etc/pptpd.conf

option /etc/ppp/options.pptpd
localip 192.168.8.1
remoteip 192.168.8.234-238

/etc/ppp/options.pptpd

 name pptpd
refuse-pap
refuse-chap
refuse-mschap
require-mschap-v2
require-mppe-128
 
#opendns dns services, you can replace this by your dns provider
ms-dns 208.67.222.222
ms-dns 208.67.220.220
lock
nobsdcomp
nologfd

/etc/ppp/chap-secrets

# Secrets for authentication using CHAP
#set one or more username and passwords to use with the pptp VPN
# username    pptpd   password         IP addresses
username       pptpd   password        *

3 Setup the server for Masquerading/NAT

Because we want to share the internet connection of the server with the Iphone we need to do NAT. The following couple of lines enable this. I am assuming eth0 is the network interface conneted to the internet. Just first try this out by copy and pasting this into bash but to keep it working even after a reboot you can copy the following lines into /etc/rc.local

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
/sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o ppp0 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -i ppp0 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT
 
#and start pptpd
/usr/local/sbin/pptpd

4 Configuring the Iphone

On your iphone click settings > network >VPN > Add VPN Configuration

Click PPTP and fill in a description
the hostname of the server
account = the username filled in in /etc/ppp/chap-secrets
RSA SecurID: OFF
password, as filled in in /etc/ppp/chap-secrets
Encryption Level = Auto
Send All Trafic: ON

Now press save and when Turning VPN to ON it should connect to the server.

If you have any problems don't hesistate to ask in the comments.

We need to build these drivers so make sure you installed the following packages

build-essential
linux-headers-generic

for the use of the usb stick itself we need: dvb-utils

these are all to be found in synaptics.

now unpack the file and go into it's directory and type:
(when compiling for second time or new kernel, "make distclean")

make all
sudo make install

now download the firmware (right click save-as) for the AF9015 and place this in /lib/firmware

then do a:

sudo modprobe dvb-usb-af9015

and it will load all necessary modules.
Type dmesg to check if everything loaded

use scan to find all the channels which are available to this by using the right file for your region:

scan /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-t/COUNTRY_YOURREGION > channels.conf

this file you can us to view tv in xine or me-tv

Error: Error #1502: A script has executed for longer than the default timeout period of 15 seconds. at mx.core::UIComponent/get owner() at mx.core::UIComponent/owns()[E:\dev\3.0.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\core\UIComponent.as:8811] at mx.managers::PopUpManagerImpl$/nonmodalMouseDownOutsideHandler()[E:\dev\3.0.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\managers\PopUpManagerImpl.as:820] at PopUpData/mouseDownOutsideHandler()[E:\dev\3.0.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\managers\PopUpManagerImpl.as:980]

It turns out that it has to do with a certain id in one of our elements which had the id "owner" apparently this is used internally in flex as well. Simple to fix but pretty hard to find

Since the 'styleSheet' property returns a standard TextField instance it struck us as weird that setting its 'styleSheet' property didn't work. The TextArea class was trying to set textFormat which fails after setting the stylesheet of the textfield.

Error message:

This pointed us to the 'drawTextFormat()' function in the TextArea class. After taking a look we figured out what to do.

The problem turned out to be that every time you add text to your textarea the class tries to add a designated, or default flash-textFormat to the textfield. Adding Flash TextFormat objects to textfields conflicts with stylesheets. Our solutions was relatively simple: a small class extends of the textArea class.

Click continue for the fixing source

    import fl.controls.TextArea;
 
    /**
    * @makes it possible to do textArea.textField.styleSheet
    * @author Tim de Jong - Dooping VOF 2008 - tim -AT- dooping.nl
    * @version 001
    */
 
    public class doopingTextArea extends TextArea
    {
        public function doopingTextArea()
        {
            super();
        }
 
        override protected function drawTextFormat():void {
            if(!this.textField.styleSheet) super.drawTextFormat();
            else {
                setEmbedFont();
                if(_html) textField.htmlText = _savedHTML;
            }
        }
 
    }

Then load the stylesheet by passing it to the textField object inside the textArea.

var myTextArea = new doopingTextArea();
myTextArea.textField.styleSheet = styleSheetObject;

As you can see we simply check if a styleSheet exists and than decide whether or not to do the original text formatting or not. Now we're able to use CSS on TextArea's and keep styling and code neatly separated.

Solution:
myTextArea.setStyle("upSkin",Sprite);

Description:
Using a TextArea in actionscript 3 could come in handy as the Flash component adds in a ScrollBar by default. But it also provides some things you might not want there..

One of those things is the border, that is placed there by default.

Inspired by the solution posted here I found that you can override the skin that is used by default in the component ("upSkin") by using:

myTextArea.setStyle("upSkin",Sprite);

by overriding it with a Sprite, which is empty by default, all the visual aspects are cleared... including the border!

Windows driver can be downloaden from http://www.afatech.com.tw/EN/support_kind.aspx?CategoryID=1 select the AF-9015

/System/Library/StartupItems/QuickTimeStreamingServer/QuickTimeStreamingServer: line 19:
/usr/sbin/QuickTimeStreamingServer: cannot execute binary file

Somehow this version of Darwin Streaming Server does not work under macos 10.5 (Leopard) this can be fixed by using the binary from an older version. I did the following steps to get it running under Leopard.

Download the following package. http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/streaming/release/DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5-OSX.dmg

Just install this over the 5.5.5 install and you will be able to setup Darwin Streaming Server

I used netatalk-2.0.3

First time I tried to install under centOS5 I got an error

cnid_index.c:277: warning passing argument 2 of 'db->stat' from incompatible pointer type
cnid_index.c:277: error: too few arguments to function 'db->stat'

after some googling I found out that this has to do with support for an outdated Berkeley DB.

This can easily be fixed by editting to lines:

edit line 277 in "bin/cnid/cnid_index.c" and change:

ret = db->stat(db, &sp, 0);
to
ret = db->stat(db, NULL, &sp, 0);

on line 517 of "etc/cnid_dbd/dbif.c" you have to do exactly the same.

Now do configure & make:

./configure --enable-redhat --enable-cups --enable-pgp-uam --enable-krb4-uam --enable-krbV-uam
make install

now edit the config file in /usr/local/etc/netatalk/ according to your preferences.

mine is pretty basic:

afpd.conf

- -transall -ddp -uamlist uams_clrtxt.so,uams_dhx.so -nosavepassword

AppleVolumes.default

/home/tim allow:tim
/home/pieter allow:pieter
/home/wytze allow:wytze
/home/samba allow:wytze,thijs,tim,piete

To use this plugin you have to download the flash debugger player.
As you cannot use the provided flashplayer installer in the package, as it collides with the 64-bits architecture, you have to use ndiswrapper to do the job.

After unpacking the archive, find where the libflashplayer.so file is located (probably flash_player_9_linux_dev/plugin/debugger).
Then open-up a terminal and type:

• nsplugginwrapper -i /full/path/to/libflashplayer.so

(in my case: /home/myname/flash_player_9_linux_dev/plugin/debugger/libflashplayer.so)

After that, hit Alt + A (default shortcut for the flash tracer) or go to Tools -> Flash Tracer to start tracing away!

• OS: Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron ) 64-bit
• Using: Firefox 3 beta 5, Flash debug player 9.0.124 (also works for 9.0.115)