Sometimes whe need to build a simple java program to test some concept/code/whatever.

So the code is something like (grabbed from stackoverflow for my quick reference):

Manifest-version: 1.0
Main-Class: Test

javac Test.java
jar cfm test.jar Manifest.mf Test.class
java -jar test.jar

Hello world

Not as great as the 360º view from BT tower in London: http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html, but it will do

The issue is that after that change/configuration the NAS didn’t hibernate any more.

I thought that the issue was related to the pooling interval to the POP3 account, and I was right, it was set to 5 minutes by default. I’ve changed to 4 hour’s (240 minutes), but checking the logs I could see that the pooling was still at 5 minutes… and still the NAS wouldn’t hibernate.

So a quick check I’ve found out that the fetchmail process that fetchs the mail from the external POP3 accounts reads it’s configuration files from /var/packages/MailStation/target/roundcubemail/ext

In my case the POP3 account was defined on the admin accounts, and so there is an admin_fetch file, which might be different if other users are using the POP3 external accounts feature.

Editing this file there is a line

#### .fetchmailrc
set daemon 300

Which means pooling every 5 minutes (300 seconds)

I’ve changed the value to 21600 (4 hours), and waited for the next NAS restart.

After that pooling was set to every 4 hours and the NAS does hibernate now.

Didn’t bother to much to see how to restart the fetchmail process without rebooting the NAS, but probably restarting the Mail Station packages will suffice.

So far so good, but recently my desktop mouse behaviour started to get “jumpy” which was pretty annoying and made the mouse almost useless. Disconnecting and reconnecting the receiver on the usb port of the back of my computer didn’t solve the issue, or turning off and on the mouse.

Rebooting seemed to solve the issue, but after a while the issue was back again, so I was wondering if it was something on the hardware/software side.

But the last time it happened I tried to debug a bit more.

Long time short. The other mouse worked fine, but the receiver was on my desk a few centimetres away from the mouse connected to an extension USB cable NOT at the back of the computer.

I’ve picked up the troubled mouse receiver and put it in the extension USB cable, and voilá. It worked perfectly.

So if you have this issue try first to move closer the mouse and the receiver to see if it helps.

Enabling and disabling ssh on the control panel and changing the admin password had no effect.

I even tried to use the known password for the root user, but that also failed.

So the solution?

1. Enable telnet on the DSM Control Panel
2. Telnet as root. The password should be the same as admin. If not, change again the admin password.
3. Execute the following command synouser –setpwd root   password_same_as_admin_or_not
4. Trying now to ssh as root it should succeed with the password gave in the above command
5. Disable telnet on the DSM Control Panel
6. Done.

My quick solution is not to install this PHPMyAdmin package, and since I seldom access the MySql package, a better alternative, yet not “light” is to use the Desktop Application MySQLWorkbench: http://www.mysql.com/products/workbench/

The date format for using as the parameter is the following: MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM AM/PM

For example: 06/20/2012 15:00 pm or 06/20/2012 08:00 am

The Process Administrator then inserts the date value with the UNIX timestamp format.

An online tool as: http://www.onlineconversion.com/unix_time.htm can be used to convert the values back and forth between formats.

O facto em si (no meu caso) não é importante, mas sendo cliente Vodafone ADSL/Fibra, a única forma de poder enviar mails a partir do meu NAS (Synology) para outras contas de correio sem ser considerado SPAM devido ao meu IP ADSL é fazer relay pelo servidor SMTP da Vodafone.

No entanto para isso é necessário que a conexão SMTP seja autenticada.

A questão é que a ajuda on-line da Vodafone só exemplifica para os produtos Microsoft nomeadamente o Outlook e Outlook express, o que definitivamente não é o meu caso. Tanto o NAS Synology como o Thunderbird permitem o uso de vários tipos de autenticação, e por isso devem ser configurados da seguinte forma:

SMTP:

Description: Vodafone
Server Name: smtp.vodafone.pt
Port: 25 (O default SMTP)
Connection Security: STARTTLS
Authentication Method: Normal password
User Name: minhaconta@vodafone.pt

Note-se que no user name é obrigatório colocar o email completo. Por exemplo minhaconta por si só não funciona.

IMAP:

Server Name: imap.vodafone.pt
Port: 993
User Name: minhaconta@vodafone.pt (Mais uma vez aqui o email completo)
Connection Security: SSL/TLS
Authentication Method: Normal password

E pronto, com estas configurações é possível configurar tanto o thunderbird, como o KDE, e claro o aviso de email do Synology Nas

The Android SDK instructions refer the use of Eclipse as the IDE of choice, but is also possible to use Netbeans with the NBAndroid plugin, available at http://www.nbandroid.org/

Just following the instructions for installing the plugin in into Netbeans, namely by adding the plugin URL and installing them.

One issue that I’ve found was that the New Project Wizard didn’t show the Android type applications for creation…

For making on the New Project Wizard the Android Projects available to be created, you must enable the JAVA ME plugin, so just go again to Plugins and select JAVA ME and press Enable at the bottom of the window.

It should work now.

One issue that I had was that Picasa was constantly consuming CPU on XOrg even when doing nothing.

To solve it out just go to Tools->Options-> General and disable Use Special Effects in Interface.

Also to clear some error messages on the .xsession-errors file just disable support for the video files.