Before the Ubuntu upgrade

Before upgrading, check if all your non-Ubuntu repository applications are available. For XBMC you can check the XBMC roadmap

After the Ubuntu upgrade

We need to reinstall all applications, which are not in the Ubuntu repository. They were cleaned up automatically. …

After a lot of searching and going through nearly every forum I have my sound via HDMI. And my solution was very simple.

But before I start, I will give an overview of my system:

• Mainboard: Point Of View 330 (ION chipset with Atom 330)
• Main display: Dell 17" LCD (1280x1024 60Hz)
• TV connected …

# lspci | grep VGA  
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation ION VGA (rev b1)

# ls /dev/input/mouse*  

/dev/input/mouse0 /dev/input/mouse1 /dev/input/mouse2 /dev/input/mouse3
The following command gives a complete list with the connect devices:  

$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices

I: …

After an upgrade of module Internationalization (i18n), I was getting the following message on a multi-language installation (Drupal 6.16):

warning: preg_match() expects parameter 2 to be string, array given in includes/bootstrap.inc on line 777.

I did not had this problem, when I was logged in or …

To show and hide contents in Drupal we can use the javascript library in the core and obtain the same effect that we get by default in the collapsible fields of Drupal forms. All is needed is to invoke the script collapse.js in the body of the content (node or block) we are creating: \

<script …

It is possible to make a VPN connection on Linux. This works Shrew Soft VPN client v2.1.5. Ubuntu 9.10 has still v2.1.4, which does not work for the Fritz!Box VPN.

Ubuntu install

The Shrew Soft VPN client v2.1.5 will be available in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)

Make under Linux

Download the VPN client from: …

Download the configuration tool

To configure the Fritz!Box router VPN configuration, download the tool: ‘Configure FRITZ!Box VPN Connection’ tool (v01.00.05 or newer) at www.avm.de/en/vpn. Which runs on 2000/XP/Vista, I did not test it on Windows 7.

Attention!

The local and remote …

This howto is tested on Windows XP SP3 and Windows 7. Probably it also will work on Windows Vista. The router I used is the Fritz!Box WLAN 7170, but the tools for the other Fritz!Boxes like the Fritz!Box 7270 are the same, so it will also work for the other Fritz!Box routers with VPN capabilities. …

Currently I am using Google Analytics on this website. Google Analytics is a pretty advanced solution for monitoring the website visits.

When activating the Google Analytics account, you will get the advice to copy/paste some PHP code into your site. It is not necessary to do that, you can use the …