After playing about 4-5 days with Desire, I can say that it is an amazing phone, I love it.

First thing which I did was to install some applications on it, which I use frequently: ConnectBot (ssh client), AndFTP (ftp client), Dropbox, Evernote, AK Notepad, ColorNote, Compas, Color Flashlight, iReader, KeePassDroid and Yahoo Messenger. You can find all of them using Android Market.

The second thing was to import the contacts from Nokia E71 onto Desire, Here is how I did it:

1. turn Bluetooth on both devices and pair them
2. Nokia: Contacts -> Options -> Mark/Unmark -> Mark All
3. Nokia: Options -> Send -> Send Business Card
4. Desire: Accept the incoming file: the icon will appear at the top of the screen
5. Desire: wait a little bit, and after that choose “Import All Contacts”
6. Done

I think that method should work with different phones.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vioan/sets/

I am thinking to change/replace two devices: Nokia E71 and the iPod Touch, with just one, a new smartphone and I have in mind: iPhone 4, HTC Desire and Nexus One, but I am still not decided which one to buy. So, I need your help, which one would you choose?

Desire: radio fm and sense ui but not android 2.2 and I am not sure if it will get 2.2 even if HTC said that it will get
Nexus: android 2.2 but not the others mentioned above
iPhone: 180-200 Euro more than the other two, and of course not all what I can have on the other two

BTW, openSUSE 11.3 is great, but you already know that

• NO webcam
• NO photocam
• NO voice (skype and friends)
• NO usb
• NO card reader
• NO MS Office (for some people)
• NO terminal/console (sometimes I need ssh)
• NO flash
• locked in AppStore (so, NO firefox, opera, chrome)
• NO multitasking
• glossy screen for reading books (no way)
• NO GPS
• NO great deal for money
• ….

so, it is a HUGE iPhone without phone part.

I prefer to carry with me my macbook pro (13″), or a cheap netbook, which I can use it for everything and I can do what I want on it.

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]]> http://www.vioan.ro/wp/2010/01/27/opera-10-10-vs-firefox-3-6/feed/ 8 http://www.vioan.ro/wp/2010/01/23/fixing-lighttpd-in-debian-%e2%80%9csqueeze%e2%80%9d-on-sheevaplug/ http://www.vioan.ro/wp/2010/01/23/fixing-lighttpd-in-debian-%e2%80%9csqueeze%e2%80%9d-on-sheevaplug/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:28:38 +0000 ionut http://www.vioan.ro/wp/?p=416 I was using SheevaPlug as my Home NAS, with and external usb hdd, until recently when I built my new NAS, based on ION ATOM, FreeBSD and ZFS.

I am thinking to add an usb webcam and to use it as a monitoring system.

I updated Debian “squeeze”, which is running on an 8G SDHC card, but I got the error:

After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up lighttpd (1.4.25-2) …
Starting web server: lighttpd2010-01-22 23:13:31: (network.c.345) can’t bind to port: :: 80 Address already in use
failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript lighttpd, action “start” failed.
dpkg: error processing lighttpd (–configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
lighttpd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
sheeva:/home/ionut#

I didn’t have anything running and listening on port 80, so, it seems that it is a known bug, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=564556 and the solution is here:

Add in /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf:

server.use-ipv6 = “enable”

And add in /etc/sysctl.d/bindv6only.conf:

“net.ipv6.bindv6only = 0“

Even if there are many ready-to-go NAS solutions I decided to build myself one and having the HTPC on the same machine. Here is mainly what I wanted:

• low powered system (64-bit microprocessor)
• used as a media server (stream movies/music)
• to be used sometimes as a HTPC, so I wanted HDMI (for HD video)
• ZFS file system with all its goodies
• gigabit ethernet interface to take advantage of the network bandwidth
• nice chassis with four hot-swappable 3.5″ SATA HDD (I am using just two HDD right now because the motherboard has only 3 SATA)

My NAS/HTPC specs are here:

• Chenbro ES34069 chassis
• Zotac ION-ITX-A Wi-Fi Dual Core 1.6GHz motherboard
• 2 GB Kingston DDR2 800MHz RAM
• 2 x Western Digital Caviar Green 1.0 TB
• 1x Toshiba 2.5″ HDD 100 GB (for OS)

I choosed FreeBSD as operating system, because I am more familiar with it than with Solaris. I recompiled mplayer with vdpau support (for HD video).

Here are the steps:

• download the latest mplayer snapshot from their website
• download these two files (ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/vdpau/include/vdpau/) and put them in /usr/include/vdpau (create that directory)
• ./configure –disable-x264-lavc –disable-x264 -–enable-vdpau
• gmake
• gmake install
• check to see if you have vdpau support with: “mplayer -vo help“. If you see something like: “vdpau VDPAU with X11” then everything is ok.

Some additional steps/configs:

• add zfs_enable=”YES” in /etc/rc.conf
• add  the following in /boot/loader.conf:

vm.kmem_size_max=”1024M”

vm.kmem_size=”1024M”

vfs.zfs.arc_max=”100M”

• zpool create storage mirror ad4 ad10
• zfs create storage/archives
• zfs create storage/backups
• install samba, duplicity, rsnapshots, rsync, unison, ushare, …

Right now, everything is working very well, I am very happy with the setup, but I still didn’t manage to have sound over HDMI, so, a temporary solution will be to connect an additional speaker system to it.

I don’t need any fancy remote control, I have a logitech wifi keyboard/mouse, because I like to be able to read the news in the morning (during cofee time) using google reader

The total power consumption is about 35W idle / 45W load which is pretty good, I think.

I still can not use special Fn keys and also I receive a warning message when my encrypted home partition is mounted (after I introduce the passphrase), but not for swap partition. It says something about not finding the module padlock-sha.

I didn’t have too much time to look around to see why, but it seems that as well other people are experiencing the same issue:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=43705
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/7e2cda1e525f6cf3/c5ee7253a6f92620?lnk=raot&pli=1

Anyway, thanks again for that great release, I am really happy what I see in 11.2.

“Zimbra software is open source, meaning we make both the software code and the application itself available to anyone at no charge. Also, Zimbra Desktop is a full version; there are no missing features or catches”

For a complete list of features see this link: http://www.zimbra.com/products/desktop_features.html

If you have any issue with it you can find the answer on their wiki.

Here is just a screenshot:

• MacBook Pro 13.3″
• 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM
• 320GB Serial ATA Drive
• Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter
• Apple Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter
• Backlit Keyboard (US) & User’s Guide (English)
• SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)

and of course

• iPod Touch 8GB (2nd generation)

The laptop is coming with Leopard but I can order Snow Leopard on their website just for about 8 Pounds (http://www.apple.com/uk/macosx/uptodate/).

Apple’s tracking information says:

In Transit to Customer – Shipment on Schedule

so, I hope that I will have it tomorrow, right now I’m like a 5 year old boy waiting for his gift.

NEXT POST: my impresions and preparing my new MacBook for Scientific Computing, so, stay tuned …

1. create a full backup of your vps (databases, websites, accounts, emails, …). I have used “tar” command for that.
2. in plesk 8.1 control panel, do a complete backup (you need plesk backup module to be installed), or if you prefer the command line you can use the following command:

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# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup all <backup-file>

Since version 9.x, the structure of Parallels Plesk Panel backup has been changed. Plesk backup created with Plesk Backup Manager is not just one file but a number of files and directories under backups directory /var/lib/psa/dumps. So, you will need to convert your backup file created in plesk 8.1 to be compatible with plesk 9.x. It’s a very simple process, see step 3.

3. convert the created backup file to be compatible with plesk 9.x

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# /usr/local/psa/bin/pre9-backup-convert -v convert -d /var/lib/psa/dumps/ <backup-file>

where /var/lib/psa/dumps/ is backups directory on the server with Parallels Plesk Panel 9

4. restore the backup files to use them with plesk 9.x. It can be done using the web interface, Home -> Backup Manager -> Server Repository, click the backup name to enter the backup details page and select the required restoration options and click Restore to start the restoration process.

If you would like to use command line to restore your domains, clients, server configuration, … then you can use the following command:

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# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --restore /var/lib/psa/dumps/<your backup xml file> -level server -verbose -debug

You can restore only clients or domains, for more options see:

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# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --help

Note: I had a small problem and I found that it is not possible to have a client with the same name as your name in Plesk Admin Profile. Maybe it is stupid, but I had some errors and only after I changed the name in Admin Profile (in Plesk control panel) to be different, I could restore without any problem everything.

I think that’s all what I did, from what I remember. If something is missing I am sure you can find a lot of useful stuff using our friend google.

Other useful stuff:

1. Plesk 9.x support as well postfix, so if you want to change from qmail to postfix, try that:

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# /usr/local/psa/bin/autoinstaller --select-release-current --install-component postfix

if you are not happy, you can switch back to qmail:

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# /usr/local/psa/bin/autoinstaller --select-release-current --install-component qmail.

If you are not sure if you are using qmail or postfix there are many ways to find that, one is to look in Plesk Control Panel on the Services management page {Home -> Services Management} if you have SMTP Server (Postfix) or SMTP Server (QMail)

If you decide you want to switch back, simply, do it, the emails are not lost, don’t worry.

2. Replace Horde webmail with AtMail

One of the many new features of Plesk 9, is the option to choose a different webmail client. The default webmail client Horde can be replaced if you are looking for something a bit lighter, AtMail. You need to install from Plesk Control Panel, both webmail clients, and to switch between them:

• Log into Plesk.
• Chose the domain which you want to use another webmail, enter on “Mail Accounts” page
• Click the “Mail Settings” icon
• Switch the “WebMail” to “AtMail (default is Horde)
• Click “OK”

If you decide you want to switch back, simply reverse the procedure, the emails are not lost, don’t worry.

That’s all.

References:

http://kb.parallels.com/en/5819
http://kb.parallels.com/en/5801
http://kb.parallels.com/en/952
http://kb.parallels.com/en/5969
http://kb.parallels.com/en/5864