Yesterday I blogged about the Jabber bot, which, by the way, has more available feeds, including Planet Gnome and Planet Debian (rss-list to get a complete list). Today I decided to keep playing with the Planets and decided to implement an idea Joey had for Planet Debian.

I installed and configured rss2email and set up two different mailing lists; one for Planet Ubuntu and another one for Planet Ubuntu Users.

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You can subscribe using the web-based form at: rss2email.ubuntuweblogs.org

Even though messages can be in HTML format, I decided to go with plain text. I would really like to hear someone else’s opinion on which format to use.

If you have any recommendations, please, let me know. Comments are open again, but only if people start behaving. If you’re going to say something stupid please don’t write anything at all.

P.S.: Stephan Hermann, thanks buddy! ;)

Update: rss2email started to freak out, for some unkown reason. It appears to be a problem of feedparser, who unfortunately, has been dead for quite some time. I’ll contact the author to see if he can help me out.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-cell

After installation both monitors were working. Secondary monitor was working as a clone, which didn’t used to happen on previous releases. I tried using the instructions of my previous post, which I’ve been told that work quite well (and for the incoming links to the blog).

With the ATI property drivers available on 7.10 repositories, that set of instructions will not work (Bug number 54680). The _only_ way I was able to get it to work as by installing a more recent version using the ATI Catalyst 8.1 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver (available here).

Even though I still don’t have the perfect dual-head configuration¹, it’s working OK.

1. I can only open Firefox on one monitor at a time; I can’t drag windows from one monitor to the other, etc

It has been a pleasure working with all of you. Looking forward for the next one!

Regards,

Tiago

oozie made a great work and has instructions on his website.

huawei.tar.bz2 is what you need to make the modem work. It comes with a few .conf files which you can use with wvdial. A great add-on is he220stat.tar.bz2 which will display useful information about the current state of your connection.

Please remove the PIN code verification from the SIM card. Place it on a cellphone and disable it.

For Portuguese service providers I was able to find a great configuration file for wvdial that will work with all of them. (available after the jump)

One important note:

When you first buy the USB 3G device it will first have to make the connection in Windows in order to get carrier information. Only after that you can start using it on GNU/Linux.

Dependencies:

For Ubuntu all the dependencies for the two pieces of software are available from the official repositories. Please refer to ozzie page and the README of each software for more information on this. *

* - libncurses5-dev is enough for the ncurses dependencies.

PT:

Existem várias referências à TMN mas funciona para Kanguru e Vodafone:

File: /etc/wvdial.conf

[Dialer 144k]
Init6 = AT+CGEQMIN=1,4,64,144,64,144
Init7 = AT+CGEQREQ=1,4,64,144,64,144

[Dialer 64k]
Init6 = AT+CGEQMIN=1,4,64,64,64,64
Init7 = AT+CGEQREQ=1,4,64,64,64,64

[Dialer 384k]
Init6 = AT+CGEQMIN=1,4,64,384,64,384
Init7 = AT+CGEQREQ=1,4,64,384,64,384

[Dialer 2gonly]
Init4 = AT+COPS=0,0,”tmn”,0

[Dialer 3gonly]
Init4 = AT+COPS=0,0,”tmn”,2

[Dialer internet]
Init5 = AT+CGDCONT=1,”IP”,”internet”;

[Dialer defaults]
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Stupid Mode = 1
Modem Type = Analog Modem
ISDN = 0
Phone = *99***1#
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
Username = tmn
Dial Command = ATDT
Password = tmn
Baud = 460800

[Dialer option]
Init2 = ATZ
Init3 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
ISDN = 0
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
Modem Type = Analog Modem
Baud = 460800

More information about this discussion list:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-training-support

You can use this list for questions or anything related to the training program. Books reviews, study material tips, exam centers, etc.

Hope this helps out everyone who is interested in becoming Ubuntu Certified Professional!

Since I have 1 monitor I don’t use and a graphics card that supports dual-head I decided to give it a try.

I would like to credit all the sources, but I Googled allot and gathered information from several places.

First of all I made a copy of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf to a safe place. Then I ran aticonfig --initial. This will create an ATI device section on X.org configuration file capable of loading fglrx drivers.

Then I issued the following command:

sudo aticonfig --initial=dual-head --screen-layout=left

This will create the initial configuration on xorg.conf for dual-head.

After this I restarted X (CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE). The second monitor was running as a clone (same image as the main monitor).

Since this worked out it was time to try Big Desktop.

sudo aticonfig --dtop=horizontal

Another X restart.

The image was now expanded to the secondary monitor on the left side. One problem, though.

Instead of the mouse leaving the main monitor by the left side (the side which the secondary monitor is located) it was leaving by the opposite side.

To fix this we can manually edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change, on the ‘Device’ section, Option "DesktopSetup" "horizontal" to Option "DesktopSetup" "horizontal,reverse".

I now have it working exactly as I want!

Here’s a screenshot, in case you’re interested.

Information about my graphics card:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600]

I’ll be in a city, which I have no idea how to type, from 23 to ~30 of June.

If the Frankfurt LoCo team is having a meeting during this period, I would be happy to attend.

It’s just my way of seeing things on the FLOSS world.

Browsing through the GNU project website, I found an interesting article I thought I should share.

GNU Users Who Have Never Heard of GNU

Hello to all the ‘bloggers’ aggregated and the readers of this great Planet.

I’ll see you all soon.