legastero

-- 1. apt-get install prosody-trunk
-- 2. Checkout prosody-modules on Google Code
-- 3. Move all modules to /usr/lib/prosody/modules
-- 4. Move the mod_smacks module to mod_smacks2 and copy it to mod_smacks3
-- 5. Move the files in mod_smacks* to match the new names
-- 6. In mod_smacks3/mod_smacks3.lua s/urn:xmpp:sm:2/urn:xmpp:sm:3/g
-- 7. Set the Prosody configuration to:

admins = { "ADMIN@HOST" }
daemonize = true

raelgc

Install Microsoft Office 2010 on Ubuntu

Requirements

We'll install MSOffice using the PlayOnLinux wizard. Additionally, MSOffice requires samba and winbind to properly work.

So, if not installed, install them:

sudo apt-get install playonlinux samba winbind

veproza

Getting u-blox MAX-7C GPS to work with Assisted A-GPS

So you got your u-blox GPS and wired it up only to look at it struggling to get a valid fix? Under less than ideal conditions, it can take a better part of half an hour. That's because unlike your smartphone GPS, it doesn't have the luxury of having downloaded all the auxiliary navigation data (almanacs and the lot) out-of-band, via fast mobile connection. Instead it relies on the satellite's signal itself, which is being transmitted to you at meager 50 bits per second (I'm not missing "kilo" there, it's three orders of magnitude slower than your 2G GPRS connection).

Luckily, the u-blox receivers are fitted with what the company calls "AssistNow" capability and it does exactly the same thing your iPhone does - feeds the GPS with pre-downloaded almanacs, speeding up the acquisition process to mere seconds.

In principle, the process looks easy enough - we just need to download the data, and then push them to the receiver. Sadly, the AssistNow documentat

vancluever

Disabling GNOME Tracker and Other Info

GNOME's tracker is a CPU and privacy hog. There's a pretty good case as to why it's neither useful nor necessary here: http://lduros.net/posts/tracker-sucks-thanks-tracker/

After discovering it chowing 2 cores, I decided to go about disabling it.

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