If you’re using smplayer and want to watch something on your second monitor, the video window will most likely stay black with the default settings. Setting your video renderer to “gl” resolves this issue.

If you suddenly find your KDE on Ubuntu Intrepid without working keyboard focus and no window decorations (essentially, no window management functions), try getting to “system configuration” from the menu and check Appearance > Windows. If it says something about being able to load kcm_kwindecoration.so because of a missing libkephal.so, apt-get install kde-window-manager. Although it will already be installed, “somebody” fscked up dependencies.

Beste Nederlanders en Vlamingen,

“Paranoia” is een zelfstandig naamwoord. Hoewel het in de Van Dale ook bestaat als informeel synoniem van “paranoïde”, lijkt me dit niet geschikt als vervanger, en al helemaal niet in gedrukte artikels of op TV.

Graag vanaf nu weer “paranoïde” gebruiken, dank bij voorbaat.

Installed Debian Etch yesterday (I need a linux kernel with xen and vserver for now, and Lenny doesn’t have one) then upgraded it to Lenny. Afterwards the Xen tools wouldn’t start anymore and produced the following error:

# /etc/init.d/xend start
 
Restarting XEN control daemon: xendTraceback (most recent call last):
 
File "/usr/lib/xen-3.0.3-1/bin/xend", line 40, in <module>
 
from xen.xend.server import SrvDaemon
 
File "/usr/lib/xen-3.0.3-1/lib/python/xen/xend/server/SrvDaemon.py", line 17, in <module>

 import xen.lowlevel.xc
 
ImportError: /usr/lib/xen-3.0.3-1/bin/../lib/python/xen/lowlevel/xc.so: undefined symbol: Py_InitModule4
 

You can solve this in 2 ways. First, the silly way:

rm /usr/bin/python; ln -s /usr/bin/python2.4 /usr/bin/python

Or, the way you’re supposed to:

apt-get install xen-utils-3.2-1 
 

ISPam, notorious spelling- and grammar fail site, complains about wrong translations on a .nl site of a French hosting company. As someone so eloquently put it: "pot, kettle, #000000" … :rolleyes:

Via Zoiah, this nice article about something I’ve been missing for quite a while on my Linksys otherwise-crap-management switches 🙂