http://it.pomocnik.com Some usefull IT howtos and tips. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:08:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Lat week, I installed Firefox 3 final release I use lots of very usefull addons with my Firefox 2, and unfortunately some of them were disabled after upgrading from FF2 to FF3. After some Googling, I found something that solved my problem. The solution on How to Force Enable Incompatible Extensions In ... http://it.pomocnik.com/force-enable-incompatible-extensions-in-firefox-3/ What to do if you got this error on 64bit linux distro, you've downloaded skype static and you've copied libsigc-2.0.so.0 and libsigc-2.0.so.0.0.0 to /lib32?: that was wrong! - and the error is: skype: error while loading shared libraries: libsigc-2.0.so.0: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 Solution is quite simple - just wget libsigc++-2.0-0c2a_2.0.16-3_i386.deb (or ... http://it.pomocnik.com/skype-error-while-loading-shared-libraries-libsigc-20so0-wrong-elf-class-elfclass64/ What to do if you got this error on 64bit linux distro and you've downloaded skype static?: skype: error while loading shared libraries: libsigc-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Solution is quite simple - just wget libsigc++-2.0-0c2a_2.0.16-3_i386.deb (or some other version appropriate to your distro (remember to ... http://it.pomocnik.com/skype-error-while-loading-shared-libraries-libsigc-20so0-cannot-open-shared-object-file-no-such-file-or-directory/ It's very eay to check uuid, just ls some dir ;-): ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ that's all! http://it.pomocnik.com/how-to-check-uuid-for-specified-disk-partition/ How to uninstall Google Desktop for Linux? If you use Fedora, Mandrake or some other rpm based linux distro: run the command: rpm -e google-desktop-linux If you use Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu or some other deb based linux distro: run the command: dpkg -r google-desktop-linux http://it.pomocnik.com/how-to-uninstall-google-desktop-for-linux/ You get: FATAL: Could not determine fully qualified hostname. Please set 'visible_hostname' After installing squid (=after apt-getting squid on Ubuntu) Solution is very simple. Open your squid.conf file (/etc/squid/squid.conf) find out visible_hostname and put any name after visible_hostname: visible_hostname myLocalDesktopComputer That's all. http://it.pomocnik.com/fatal-could-not-determine-fully-qualified-hostname-please-set-visible_hostname/ Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid, Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device. i u got this error while trying mplayer to play video on Linux (Kubuntu, Ubuntu or other). The solution is very simple: Right click on mplayer window, go to preferences and oopen Video tab and choose correct driver. If you use OpenGL gl ... http://it.pomocnik.com/couldnt-open-devmga_vid-error-openinginitializing-the-selected-video_out-vo-device/ Everything You Always Wanted to Know About RAID in Linux But Were Afraid to Ask What you need: mdadm mdadm is a tool for managing Linux Software RAID arrays, it can create, assemble, report on, and monitor arrays. You cant find in your distro (use your distro's package manager to install it) or at: ... http://it.pomocnik.com/linux-raid-very-simple-how-to/ I was looking for a solution, how to convert raw to dv2 avi, and finally man dvgrab helped me! Solution is quite fast and simple: cat source.dv | dvgrab --stdin --autosplit --opendml --timestamp --format dv2 dv2source.avi http://it.pomocnik.com/how-to-convert-raw-to-dv2-avi/ I tried to run dvdrip on my 64bit Kubuntu machine - to rip one of my home dvd videos, unfortunatelly without success, BUT instead of dvdrip you can use acidrip - it works OK http://it.pomocnik.com/ubuntukubuntu-64bit-and-dvdrip-dvdrip/