October 6th, 2008
Funny shit! Why Pumpkins shouldn’t drink!
I was emailed this today by a cousin. Not sure where this pic originated, but like many that come around in mass emails, this one has prolly been around a long time.
Archive for the ‘Tony’ Category
May 4th, 2008
1837 EIS ‘Eagles of E&I’ Reunion
For many of us; our assignment to the 1837 Engineering and Installation Squadron at Yokota Airbase Japan (or Detachment 1 at Clark AB or at Osan AB, Korea) was the best assignment of our Air Force careers. We made so many friends, many of whom we have lost contact with or have kept in contact but have not seen.
March 2009 is the time to correct that. Yes, there is a biennial reunion in Texas and I know that I plan to attend that one. But, for many of us a visit to old stomping grounds would be a perfect location to get together. Therefore, to all 1837EIS members from its inception to closure, I cordially invite you to Angeles City/Clark AB (R.I.P.) Republic of the Philippines any time between March 20, 2009 to March 30, 2009.
Over the next couple of months I will update this page with pictures of Angeles and Clark; both then and now. I will publish airline information (rates and recommended flight times from the US), hotel information and a possible list of activities for the time frame of the reunion. I made the reunion a ranged event for a couple reasons. First, it is over the Memorial Day holiday which can be a positive or a negative; I know for some of us, it is one fewer vacation day to be charged from work, also some have family commitments over holidays; so I wanted everyone to have a choice of coming over the holiday or after the holiday. Second, I cannot think of a better time to visit Clark AB than this, the cemetery on Clark is maintained by the local VFW chapter and is in good repair, so if you have relatives or family that rests on Clark AB, this would be a great time to visit them.
Clark is now a free trade zone in the RP. The flight line and terminal are under expansion to take over Ninoy Aquino International Airport as the premier International Airport of the PI in 2019 according to President Arroyo. Angeles City, while drastically changed over the past 17 years since Mt. Pinatubo erupted, is still alive and kicking and is still home to many US Military retirees.
The NLEX opened in 2006; this is a new highway between Pampanga and Manila. The travel time between the two is now one hour and 15 minutes with no traffic and two hours with heavy traffic (barring accidents on the highway). The SLEX also just opened in April 2008 which connects the Clark Free Trade Zone to the Subic Free Trade Zone. What used to be a three hour drive from Angeles to Olongapo is now 40 minutes.
The local water is still non-potable, but is no longer brown. Hotels now meet western standards (well, most do) so air conditioning in hotel rooms is the norm, the same goes for the night clubs.
Again, I would like to extend this invitation to all Eagles out there, get away for a week or two. Reconnect with old friends and co-workers. Enjoy a place that we loved and with the right flights and if you have base access, stop in Tokyo on your way to or from the reunion and see Yokota AB as well, I am sure it has also changed greatly.
Sincerely;
Tony Ricciotti (Eagle stationed at Yokota from 1986-1989) tony (at) ournuthut dot net
November 22nd, 2007
/etc/apt/sources.list
# # deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release amd64 (20071016.1)]/ gutsy main restricted # deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release amd64 (20071016.1)]/ gutsy main restricted # See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to # newer versions of the distribution. deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted ## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the ## distribution. deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu ## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to ## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in ## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security ## team. deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu ## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to ## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in ## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu ## security team. deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports' ## repository. ## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as ## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes ## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features. ## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review ## or updates from the Ubuntu security team. deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse # deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's ## 'partner' repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is ## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu ## users. deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-proposed restricted main multiverse universe deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse # iced-tea updates deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~doko/ubuntu/ gutsy/ deb-src http://people.ubuntu.com/~doko/ubuntu/ gutsy/
November 22nd, 2007
My xorg.conf Ubuntu 7.10 Thinkpad T61p
# xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file) # # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using # values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page. # (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.) # # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only* # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg # package. # # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated # again, run the following command: # sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg Section "Files" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Microsoft 8000" Driver "evdev" Option "Device" "/dev/input/event7" Option "Buttons" "9" #Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 7 6" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false" Option "WHEELRelativeAxisButtons" "4 5" Option "DIALRelativeAxisButtons" "6 7" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" Driver "synaptics" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Driver "wacom" Identifier "stylus" Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom" Option "Type" "stylus" Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"# Tablet PC ONLY EndSection Section "InputDevice" Driver "wacom" Identifier "eraser" Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom" Option "Type" "eraser" Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"# Tablet PC ONLY EndSection Section "InputDevice" Driver "wacom" Identifier "cursor" Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom" Option "Type" "cursor" Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"# Tablet PC ONLY EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "nVidia Corporation G80 [Quadro NVS 140M]" Driver "nvidia" Busid "PCI:1:0:0" Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True" Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" Option "NoLogo" "True" Option "UseEdidDpi" "False" #Option "Dpi" "92 x 92" Option "Dpi" "129 x 129" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Generic Monitor" Option "DPMS" Horizsync 28-84 Vertrefresh 43-60 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "nVidia Corporation G80 [Quadro NVS 140M]" Monitor "Generic Monitor" Defaultdepth 24 SubSection "Display" Modes "1680x1680" EndSubSection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" screen "Default Screen" Inputdevice "Generic Keyboard" Inputdevice "Configured Mouse" "CorePointer" Inputdevice "Microsoft 8000" #"SendCoreEvents" # Uncomment if you have a wacom tablet # InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents" # InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents" # InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents" Inputdevice "Synaptics Touchpad" EndSection Section "Module" Load "glx" EndSection
November 12th, 2007
Microsoft Presenter 8000 in Ubuntu Linux
I just purchased one of these mice because I wanted the tilt wheel for back/forward buttons in Firefox and in KDE. Here is what I had to do in order to make it work:
sudo apt-get install xbindkeys xvkbd xmacro
I added the following to ~/.xbindkeysrc
“/usr/bin/xvkbd -xsendevent -text “\[Alt_L]\[Left]“”
b:7
“/usr/bin/xvkbd -xsendevent -text “\[Alt_L]\[Right]“”
b:6
“/usr/X11R6/bin/xvkbd -xsendevent -text “\[Shift]\[Right]“”
b:10
“/usr/X11R6/bin/xvkbd -xsendevent -text “\[Shift]\[Left]“”
b:9
Then I set xbindkeys to start on KDE login by creating a link to is in ~/.kde/Autostart
I also created another mouse config in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Microsoft 8000″
Driver “evdev”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/event7″
Option “Buttons” “9″
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5 6 7″
Option “Emulate3Buttons” “false”
Option “WHEELRelativeAxisButtons” “4 5″
Option “DIALRelativeAxisButtons” “6 7″
Option “SendCoreEvents” “true”
EndSection
Then I added the following line to the Serverlayout section of xorg.conf
Inputdevice “Microsoft 8000″ “SendCoreEvents”
July 29th, 2007
Creative Commons License Upgrade
Please note that I have upgraded from the Creative Commons license version 2 to version 3. This change is in effect immediately and affects all information found on this website; present, past and future.
Tony
July 29th, 2007
Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) on a Dell Latitude D820
This page details my installation of Linux on my Dell Latitude D820 laptop.
Specs:
Configuration
PREP FOR INSTALLATION:
I didn’t wish to take the time to figure out what was installed on my system manually, so I searched the man paged for `dpkg` to grab a list of all installed packages on my Feisty BETA system.
The following commands were found on The Glass is Too Big
package-dump
sudo dpkg --get-selections | grep "install" > package-dump/packages.txt
sudo cp /etc/apt package-dump/apt
tar cfz packages.tar.gz package-dump
sudo rm -r package-dump
I copied the whole of /etc/apt so I have all keys from the repositories I used previously.
INSTALLATION:
My system was configured with the last BETA for Feisty. I don’t like potential buggy BETA code not being properly removed by continually updating a system, so I decided a clean install was in order.
I started with the Ubuntu 7.04 disk. Booted into the live environment and backed up /home and /etc to an external USB disk.
Then I launched the installation utility; all went smoothly and within 20 minutes I was staring at the default login screen in GDM. The installation procedure in Ubuntu is really beginning to spoil me. Not if only they would recode Ubiquity to allow encrypted filesystem use via LUKS and LVM at install then we could have a great “Encrypted while at rest” solution. Debian “Etch” 4 does this, why not Ubuntu?Once the default Ubuntu install was setup, I plugged in my network cable and ran `sudo apt-get update` and `sudo apt-get upgrade`. Reboot and all bug and security patches have been applied.
Now, I had to reinstall all of my applications from the BETA installation. I plugged in the external disk and copied the contents of package-dump/apt to /etc/apt and ran `apt-get update` and then I ran `sudo dpkg ????????set-selections < package-dump/package.list` and then `sudo dselect`to install all of the packages I was missing. This was a long process to complete. It took about 2 hours, but I couldn't walk away because of license acceptance for the JRE and selecting KDM as my login manager, etc.
A quick reboot (Feisty is really fast, about 30 seconds to boot clean on my laptop) and I was greeted by KDM, change my session to KDE and I was off to the races. I won't go through all of the boring cruft of copying my home directory data back, I am sure you can figure that out on your own if you haven't gotten lost so far.
Wireless network
Ubuntu now installs the Restricted Kernel Modules package by default. Therefore my wireless drivers were installed and enabled by default. The only thing I needed to do was enter my ESSID and WPA key into knetworkmanager and I was all set.
NVIDIA Quadro NVS-110M Turbocache graphic card
The default nv driver that is included with Xorg works just fine, but is rather CPU intensive when you get to mpeg decoding (movies and other video clips). So, I log out of KDE and into GNOME and the new restricted drivers balloon is there telling me I was using proprietary drivers . Well, click on it and it shows me that I can enable the NVIDIA driver by clicking the checkbox. A quick root password later and a logout/login and I had the NVIDIA drivers. Well, for those that use NVIDIA on laptops (and other LCD screens), you may notice the fonts are HUGE where they needn’t be. Well, I fixed this problem on my laptop and have published my Xorg.conf here.
A CRTL+ALT+DEL and my fonts were fixed.
Audio Card
What can I say? I have read a lot about problems with alsa and this laptop. It just works for me. I did enable “Full Duplex” in the KDE Control Panel. K Menu >> Sound and Multimedia >> Sound System >> Hardware Tab.
People have been reporting the Mic not working on these Latitudes also. Well if you open KMixer, click on the Switches tab and change the input source to “Front Mic” you will notice your mic should work.
Volume Buttons
The volume buttons are not hardware based, they are software based buttons. Therefore, changing the keyboard in KDE was not necessary for me but some report needing to change it. Just open the KDE control panel, click on Region & Language, then Keyboard Layout. Check the box that is titles “Enable keyboard layouts” and select “Dell Latitude Series” in the pulldown.
ACPI/Power Management
ACPI just worked also. CPU throttling is working as expected and I am getting about 4 hours typical runtime while on battery. The only caveat is the NVIDIA drivers still do not handle suspend and hibernation well.
I had tested suspend and hibernate with the nv driver and they appear to work properly. I needed the video driver more than hibernation.
Bluetooth
Enabling my bluetooth mouse (Logitech V270) was easy. Press the reset button on the mouse and from the command prompt, I entered the following two commands:
sudo hidd –server (I also entered this into /etc/rc.local)
sudo hidd –connect
A couple clicks of the mouse and it was operating seamlessly. Two buttons plus scroll all worked fine.
USB
I tried my old trusty Memorex wireless USB mouse and my external USB 160GB laptop HDD and they both were properly detected and worked with no modifications or additional work on my part. The HDD displayed a mounted disk icon on my desktop and all permissions were properly set. NOTE: The HDD was already formatted to EXT3, so I wasn’t worried about NTFS permissions
Additional Software install
VMware is used extensively by me to test new distributions and to run Windows when I feel the need. I downloaded the tarball from them, installed it and there was even an entry in my K menu for it. VMWare Workstation version 6 is so sweet!
Links:
Chris Troestler has a page titled “Debian GNU/Linux on a Dell Latitude D820″ at http://math.umh.ac.be/an/D820/ which I used as the basis for my Ubuntu 6.06 install.
Ubuntu may be downloaded from http://www.ubuntu.org
Kubuntu can be downloaded from http://www.kubuntu.org
If you find any errors in this page, please email me at tony at ournuthut dot net
July 29th, 2007
SSH logins with 5-10 second delay
I have been noticing a delay logging into my Ubuntu 6.06LTS server at home lately. I finally decided to troubleshoot the issue.
Using the following commandline: ` ssh -o “VerifyHostKeyDNS no” -vvv ` I saw that I was timing out on kerberos realm checking.
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-8ubuntu1 debug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK debug1: An invalid name was supplied Configuration file does not specify default realm debug1: An invalid name was supplied A parameter was malformed Validation error debug1: An invalid name was supplied Configuration file does not specify default realm debug1: An invalid name was supplied A parameter was malformed Validation error debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
So, I looked through /etc/ssh/ssh_config on my Ubuntu Laptop and saw that I had to disable the following:
# SendEnv LANG LC_* # HashKnownHosts yes # GSSAPIAuthentication yes # GSSAPIDelegateCredentials no
This corrected the issue. Thinking back on things, I have had this issue since I upgraded to Feisty during the BETA period. I wonder when the Kerberos checking was enabled by default and why.
Tony
June 25th, 2007
My xorg.conf Ubuntu Feisty 7.04
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file) # # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using # values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf(5) manual page. # (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.) # # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only* # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg # package. # # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated # again, run the following command: # sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg Section "Files" Fontpath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" Fontpath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" Fontpath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled" Fontpath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled" Fontpath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1" Fontpath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi" Fontpath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi" # path to defoma fonts Fontpath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" EndSection Section "Module" Load "i2c" Load "bitmap" Load "ddc" Load "extmod" Load "freetype" Load "glx" Load "int10" Load "vbe" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" Driver "synaptics" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0" Option "SHMConfig" "on" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Driver "wacom" Identifier "stylus" Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom" Option "Type" "stylus" Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"# Tablet PC ONLY EndSection Section "InputDevice" Driver "wacom" Identifier "eraser" Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom" Option "Type" "eraser" Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"# Tablet PC ONLY EndSection Section "InputDevice" Driver "wacom" Identifier "cursor" Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom" Option "Type" "cursor" Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"# Tablet PC ONLY EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "nVidia Corporation G72M [Quadro NVS 110M/GeForce Go 7300]" Driver "nvidia" Busid "PCI:1:0:0" Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True" Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True" Option "NoLogo" "True" Option "UseEdidDpi" "False" Option "Dpi" "92 x 92" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Generic Monitor" Option "DPMS" Horizsync 28-84 Vertrefresh 43-60 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "nVidia Corporation G72M [Quadro NVS 110M/GeForce Go 7300]" Monitor "Generic Monitor" Defaultdepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1680x1050" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1680x1050" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1680x1050" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1680x1050" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1680x1050" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1680x1050" EndSubSection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" screen "Default Screen" Inputdevice "Generic Keyboard" Inputdevice "Configured Mouse" Inputdevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents" Inputdevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents" Inputdevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents" Inputdevice "Synaptics Touchpad" EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection
October 16th, 2006
XGL/Beryl
This past weekend, I tried out the latest Mandriva. I am a PCLinuxOS and Ubuntu fan, but I had tried getting XGL/Beryl working on Ubuntu and failed miserably. Therefore, I tried out Mandriva 2007. I was amazed at the capabilities of the new DE (Beryl) but was frustrated with the many little issues that I experienced with Mandriva (I will write a review of it in a few days), so I went back to Ubuntu determined to get this running there. After a couple hours working on it, I got it running in GNOME. Determined to go back to KDE WITH XGL/Beryl, I spent a couple more hours getting that running. While it is not smooth, it is working. I will put up a hotwo (yes another howto lol) and a few screenshots. This is eye candy that I can live with.
Tony
