Máquina de fazer pão Clatronic

Pão rápido para esta máquina:

Comprar as farinhas do Lidl. Todas elas servem.

Colocar 500g no recipiente da máquina mais 350ml de água morna/quente. As quantidades têm de ser certas!!!!

Meia colher de chá de sal, e opcional um pouco de azeite. Nada de açúcar que só faz mal!

Programa 1, quantidade de massa I e tostadura em médio.

Se for da farinha de pão integral o programa tem de ser o três!

Com estas farinhas, cada pacote custa 1.99€ e dá para dois pães, mais o custo de produção (electricidade), deve ficar cada pão por volta da 1.30€, 1.50€.

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server HAVP problems

I’m using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server as a proxy/mail gateway,  and I had a problem with apt-ge and havp.

It seems that every time I used apt-get it complained about some problem with havp:

Starting havp: Starting HAVP Version: 0.86
Could not create server (already running?)
Exiting..
invoke-rc.d: initscript havp, action “start” failed.
dpkg: error processing havp (–configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
havp
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

So what I’ve done was:

sudo bash

cd /etc/init.d

mv havp havp.old

apt-get upgrade

mv havp.old havp

and this cleared my apt-get errors.

Now it works.

Kmail and duplicated messages..

I’m using KMail to connect to my Corporate Exchange server using the IMAP protocol. So far so good, but after fiddling a bit with KMail I started to have a lot of duplicated messages on my IMAP folders. Pretty annoying…

I’ve found out that this is a long standing bug http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118074 and it’s related with spam filtering.

So the solution? Well goto Settings->Configure Filters and select the Bogofilter Advanced tab. Remove the check box on the option “Apply this filter to incoming messages”

If you want do it to all filters and enable one by one to see which one is the culprit…

At least in my configuration, the ClamAv filter does not produce the problem.

Also because my mail gateway based on Ubuntu LTS with Spamassassing is already doing spam filtering I can leave bogofilter off without any problem…

Update: Any filter that is on produces the issue, including ClamAV…

KUbuntu Proxy Configuration – Part II

Well after all setting the http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment variables on the /etc/environement file is not really enough because of one KDE small detail… If on the KDE system settings you choose Proxy configuration and then you choose the option “Use the Preset proxy environement variables” you have a NO PROXY field where IP addresses or hostnames are put to circunvent the proxy.

Well it doesn’t work… If you fill it with something when opening again the properties, they are empty.

So the solution is really still to use the environement variables and on KDE use the “Manually specify the proxy settings” where the machines that do not need Proxy can be added.

[K]Ubuntu – Vmware server console only starts as root

If Vmware console seems to die if running as the normal [K]Ubuntu user it might be a permission issue on the vmware preferences file.

Just open a shell on your home directory and change directory to .vmware (note there is a . at the beginning).

Check the owner and group of the preferences file. If it’s not belong to your user, just run the command sudo chown user:group preferences where user and group is your user and group.

Moving from windows to Kubuntu on a business work computer – Part I

I’m moving my work laptop to Kubuntu leaving Windows behind. Despite my company having Microsoft licensing for all computers and for a lot of products, I’m jumping out of the bandwagon…

The computer is an HP nx9420 with and 100G SATA hard disk, and so far so good, everything looks to work fine, including Wireless, Bluetooth, except the integrated smartcard reader. But this can be a problem on the OpenCT software, not on Kubuntu Hard Heron 8.04 release. Using the Gemplus USB reader works perfectly.

Evolution for connecting to exchange does work, but it has some stability issues and some quirks that I find annoying… but otherwise it can replace Outlook without any problem, and have at the same time email accounts open like Gmail, and other IMAP mail accounts. An annoying thing is it can’t remember already used e-mail addresses, or looking at the Personal directory if your using the Global catalog server for finding emails so you have to type them if they are not on your GC. I must look for a solution to this.

VMWare server and VMware converter allows to run some software that I really need and has no counter part on Linux World, like Visio and the proprietary software that my company works with.

Also 2X Application server allows you to run Windows applications directly on your Linux Desktop, so you don’t even need to use the VMWare console to work!. And it’s free for 5 connections after the 30 day trial period.

I’ll get back later on this

How to get the AD LDAP DN name from an user

Some times we need to have the full distinguished LDAP name for an Active directory user.

There are at least two ways to accomplish this goal:

1st) Running the command dsquery user -name ADUSERNAME where ADUSERNAME is the name of the user on the AD

2nd) Running the command ldifde -f users.txt where all LDAP data from AD is dumped into the file named users.txt

Kubuntu Proxy configuration

Well Adept has trouble working with the KDE proxy configuration when setting it up explicity, by other other words when you define the proxy by setting up the values on Manually specify proxy settings.

Because it doesn’t work quite well, what I’ve done was the following:

sudo bash

and edit the file /etc/environment

I added the following lines:

export http_proxy=http://10.0.0.1:8080

export ftp_proxy=http://10.0.0.2:8080

Saved the file and executed the following command:

source /etc/environment

After this I went to KDE proxy settings and told it to use “Use preset proxy environment variables”

Well it works now…

Running VMWare machines from NTFS filesystems on KUbuntu

I’ve tried to start a virtual machine using VMWare Server from an attached external disk that was formatted with NTFS.

Well it didn’t work. The Vmware server console just tried to start the machine and almost right away went back again to the original status. The machines didn’t start.

Looking at the vmware logs at /var/logs/vmware, it seems that the vmware server was complaining from the following error: VMware Server unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0) Failed to allocate page for guest RAM!

After a quick Google search, I hit this: http://www.desktop-virtualization.com/2008/03/31/failed-to-allocate-page-for-guest-ram/

So all you need to do is to go to your virtual machine directory and edit the .vmx file. Add the following line to end of it: mainmem.UseNamedFile = “FALSE”

Save the file, and it should work. This is only needed if you’re running your virtual machines in KUbuntu from a NTFS file system

How to extend a Windows Disk

This is usefull:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325590