http://www.sharedknowhow.com Howto: fix, find, use, make & do it guide Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:02:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ofcourse yesterday when the new Ubuntu 8.10 came out I couldn't wait to install the new version. I came across a big problem though that evolution was hanging on importing/migrating my old mail. I tried to copy my old .evolution folder and even importing a backup I made. Evolution segfaulted with ... http://www.sharedknowhow.com/2008/10/evolution-importing-old-mail-in-ubuntu-intrepid-810-hangs/ I was looking into getting an vpn connection from my iphone to my server because I wouldn't want to send my email passwords and webpasswords clear over any public WIFI. Setting up an open source vpn connection from the Iphone is fairly simple but there is not much choiche of ... http://www.sharedknowhow.com/2008/09/linux-vpn-server-installation-for-use-with-iphone/ Installing drivers for the af9015 sold as the Equinux tubestick and numerous other brands for Linux is pretty easy to find & install. Go to http://linuxtv.org/hg/~anttip/af9015/ and download the latest drivers. 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 ... http://www.sharedknowhow.com/2008/09/af9015-equinux-tubestick-under-ubuntu/ We where dealing with finding the bug in the following error: 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 ... http://www.sharedknowhow.com/2008/09/flex-3-combobox-error-1502/ When working with flash components we often run into disadvantages. As with the TextArea class (fl.controls.TextArea) we encountered that it is not possible to use a CSS on its 'textField' property. Once again we thought to have the fast way to an end with components, but nothing of the sort.:'( Since ... http://www.sharedknowhow.com/2008/07/fixed-flash-textarea-css-incompatibility/ Problem: TextArea shows a border by default 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 ... http://www.sharedknowhow.com/2008/07/hiding-textarea-border-in-as3/ For my mac I have the Equinux Tubestick but I guess there exists a lot of similar products with the same chipset. When connecting it to a windows computer it is recognised as a "DVB-T" with Device instance id "Vid_15a4&PID_9015". Google with this information gives a few hits but ... http://www.sharedknowhow.com/2008/05/finding-windows-driver-for-vid_15a4pid_9015/ Trying to run the Darwin Streaming 5.5.5 server under Leopard will not work. If you look trough the logfiles you will see the following error: /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 ... http://www.sharedknowhow.com/2008/05/darwin-streaming-server-555-under-leopard/ I had a old installation on our personal server of Netatalk withouth encrypted password support. This is fine when you are on your local network and use Tiger but with Leopard this is no longer supported. I used netatalk-2.0.3 First time I tried to install under centOS5 I got an error cnid_index.c:277: ... http://www.sharedknowhow.com/2008/05/installing-netatalk-under-centos-5-with-leopard-support/ There is this nifty firefox plugin that lets you see the trace messages of Flash files in your browser called FlashTracer made by Sephiroth. 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 ... http://www.sharedknowhow.com/2008/04/flashtracer-in-ubuntu-64-bit/