Jano22

Christian Decker

4

ShowRSS down

I’m a huge fan of Broadcatching because it allows me to catch up with the latest news and watch my favorite shows when I got time, and not when they are scheduled, and a nice side effect is that I don’t need to own a TV.

When I wanted to find out if there is something new to watch today I noticed that my favorite service, ShowRSS, is currently down, which would explain why I’m not getting my shows. I hope it’s nothing tragic and that it returns soon.

Update: and it’s back, apparently it was just a small problem, and not the so feared takedown.

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Deco15

Christian Decker

0

Distro-Upgrading from openSuSE 11.1 to 11.2

One of the features I always enviopenSuSE 11.2ed the Ubuntu people for is the ability to do a distro upgrade without tearing down my whole system and doing the CD-Dance. While that may still be needed from time to time to ensure a nice and compact system, it is just incredibly time consuming. With the latest version of ZYpp openSuSE now has the ability to just do that. It’s not yet as comfortable and staightforward as in Ubuntu, but it definitely improved from what I tried manually when upgrading from 11.0 to 11.1. First of all we need to update to the latest patch level from the update repository: 
zypper addrepo --check --name 'openSUSE-11.1-Update' http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.1/ repo-update
zypper refresh
zypper update
If you already have the Update repository in your list then the first call will fail, but the others should work just fine. Read more
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Novo20

Christian Decker

0

Getting Chrome OS to run under VirtualBox

You are eager to try out Chrome OS but don’t want to install it on your productive system? Well there is a great VMWare Virtual Appliance compiled by Mark Renouf. But what if you prefer VirtualBox over VMWare? That was my point exactly so here is what I did to get the image to run under VB:
  1. Download the Image from here.
  2. Install Qemu
  3. bunzip2 chromeos-image-999.999.32309.211410-a1.vmdk.bz2
  4. qemu-img convert chromeos-image-999.999.32309.211410-a1.vmdk /tmp/chromeos.bin
  5. VBoxManage convertdd /tmp/chromeos.bin chromeos.vdi
  6. Open VirtualBox
  7. In the Virtual Media Manager add the created disk image
  8. Create a new Virtual Machine and add the disk you just added
  9. Start the Virtual Machine.
Now you should be able to start the VM and you are ready to go.
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Octo21

Christian Decker

0

Disable OpenID in Mozilla Weave

I’ve been using Mozilla Weave for quite some time now, ever since I made the switch from Foxmarks. This is a Firefox extension that allows one to synchronize browser settings, including tabs, history, extensions, and passwords.  Another feature of this extension is OpenID integration using Mozilla’s OpenID provider. The problem is that the OpenID integration into Weave might be a nice little feature for people that are not used to it, but people running their own identity provider or using one of the many existing providers, like myself have to jump through hoops to use these instead of the Weave IDs. I’ve found a post that mentions an about:config setting called
extensions.weave.openId.enabled
One can set this setting to ‘False’ if you don’t want the Mozilla OpenID support.  As for the rest of Weave, if you haven’t tried it yet, do so. It works just great :-)
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Sepo12

Christian Decker

3

Apple = Ikea ?

Apple is a hardware manufacturer much like Ikea. Both have some fantastic and stylish products. But I would never let Ikea tell me what chairs may or may not be used with my new table…
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