The problem on the end was that when the primary card (nvidia) was not set as the primary boot card, it was not setup right by the bios and hence X could not access it, so just setup nvidia back as the primary card, and voila, wonders work.

The thing is I know that if I want to make a good service I need to get past one thing, and that’s creating logins and passwords for people who just want to try out the service.

But, my service will have a sub domain for each new user, so just creating xhf235ssfd.mydomain.com does not make much sense, does it? Now, next thing is I will assign them unique id’s in the program, which will be determined by the data base’s auto_increment, so using a number.mydomain.com makes much more sense, but numbers are not so easy to remember, plus it looks much more ugly then having something with text. And imagine that it could be pronounceable?

Then it striked me, I recall a program which generated OTP passwords by converting numbers to mnemonics so it can be transmitted between 2 humans over a phone line just like a service to give one-time testing access. I searched and searched on my drive, but having 68Gigs of data in my home directory makes it… well a little difficult. So I went on the ‘net and found this crazy page called IP Mnemonics (here a blogpost).

It’s a cool concept, basically a ip which is 87.230.21.3 would be get.tin.bet.add which also has only 4 syllables! Pretty awesome, and I found a list which I can use to convert my sequential numbers to something nicer then just random garbage, hex-codes or a integer.

I will copy the list of numbers->names here in case the original site ever disappears.

000     zip
001     ace
002     act
003     add
004     age
005     aim
006     air
007     and
008     ant
009     ape
010     arm
011     art
012     ash
013     ask
014     bad
015     bag
016     ban
017     bar
018     bat
019     bay
020     bed
021     bet
022     bid
023     big
024     bin
025     bit
026     bog
027     boo
028     box
029     bud
030     bug
031     bun
032     bus
033     cab
034     can
035     cap
036     car
037     cat
038     cop
039     cot
040     cow
041     cry
042     cub
043     cup
044     cut
045     day
046     den
047     did
048     die
049     dig
050     dim
051     dip
052     dog
053     dry
054     dub
055     dud
056     dug
057     ear
058     eat
059     eel
060     egg
061     elf
062     elk
063     elm

064     end
065     fan
066     far
067     fat
068     fed
069     few
070     fib
071     fig
072     fin
073     fit
074     fix
075     fly
076     fog
077     foo
078     fox
079     fry
080     fun
081     gab
082     gag
083     gap
084     gas
085     gel
086     gem
087     get
088     gin
089     got
090     gum
091     gut
092     had
093     has
094     hat
095     hen
096     hex
097     hid
098     hip
099     hit
100     hog
101     hop
102     hot
103     how
104     hub
105     hug
106     hum
107     hut
108     ice
109     ill
110     imp
111     ink
112     irk
113     jab
114     jam
115     jar
116     jaw
117     jet
118     jig
119     job
120     jog
121     jot
122     joy
123     key
124     kid
125     kin
126     kit
127     lab

128     lag
129     lap
130     law
131     lax
132     lay
133     leg
134     let
135     lid
136     lip
137     lit
138     lot
139     low
140     mad
141     map
142     mat
143     men
144     met
145     mix
146     mob
147     moo
148     mop
149     mud
150     mug
151     nab
152     nag
153     nap
154     net
155     new
156     nil
157     nip
158     nod
159     nor
160     now
161     nut
162     oak
163     oat
164     odd
165     off
166     old
167     orb
168     out
169     owl
170     own
171     pad
172     pal
173     pan
174     pay
175     pen
176     pet
177     pie
178     pig
179     pin
180     pit
181     ply
182     pod
183     pop
184     pot
185     pox
186     pry
187     pun
188     pup
189     put
190     rag
191     ran

192     rat
193     raw
194     red
195     rid
196     rig
197     rip
198     rot
199     row
200     rub
201     rug
202     run
203     rut
204     rye
205     sad
206     sag
207     sap
208     sat
209     saw
210     say
211     set
212     shy
213     sip
214     sit
215     ski
216     sky
217     sly
218     sob
219     soy
220     spa
221     spy
222     tab
223     tag
224     tan
225     tap
226     tar
227     tax
228     the
229     tie
230     tin
231     tip
232     top
233     toy
234     try
235     tub
236     tug
237     use
238     van
239     vat
240     vex
241     vow
242     wag
243     war
244     was
245     wax
246     web
247     wet
248     who
249     wig
250     win
251     wit
252     yes
253     yet
254     zoo
255     all

And before anything watching this amazing video:

From which I got a hint that git could be the way, I found this post which basically confirmed my research that Git and Trac are the way to go.

Now I’ll be installing and testing it in the future, so we’ll see…. I’ll keep you posted.

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/xmodmap – << XXX
clear shift
add shift = Shift_L Shift_R
clear lock
add lock = Caps_Lock
clear control
add control = Control_L Control_R
clear mod1
add mod1 = Alt_L Alt_R
clear mod2
add mod2 = Num_Lock
clear mod3
clear mod4
add mod4 = Super_L Super_R
clear mod5
add mod5 = Scroll_Lock
XXX

Just run it and it will clear the stuck keys.

Luckily you have a proxy server somewhere (for example a squid), but rdesktop has NO settings for a proxy server, and it ignores the proxy settings in Control Panel….

Luckily someone pointed me to a nice program with which you can configure a proxy for a program which does not even support a proxy, meet Proxy Firewall, direct download link here .

Breaking News

rc-update add hald default

run it:

/etc/init.d/hald start

and retry the drill with vmware.

Actually I never heard anyone claim that it can do just that, but for me it was kind of a normal thing. But recently I was checking a site in Google Webmasters Tools, and it had some problems with certain links while crawling. The links were of the type somepage.php?something=that Where I had no idea who would have linked to that since that was available from a dropdown in a form which actually not even had a button but was submitted via onchange=”this.form.submit();”. (which could also mean that Google does know to read and execute javascript, but that’s I’m going to explain in one other post) Anyway, I searched for back links to the site containing that parameters, and found it. So I first thought it’s just a coincidence, and I solved the problem by redirecting the call back to the original page when the new information was saved in the session data. But this fix triggered the same problem on some other page which before that had no error reports, and this page is surely not receiving much visitor traffic, so I really Doubt that someone did post a link to that one in the meantime.

Conclusion, yes it knows and does follow forms, at least it seems so

MPEG-4 is quickly becoming one of the most important formats for video on the Internet. MPEG-4 files typically have the extension .MP4 and are created by a large number of software tools, digital cameras, and mobile phones.

There are number of free programs that can be used to play back MP4 files in Windows. Unfortunately, they can be difficult to find because searching for “MP4 player” in search engines often gives results which are not useful because they point to no-name software that may contain adware or spyware. “Adware” is software which displays advertisements to the user, either while they are using the software, or in more annoying cases by popping up windows even when the software isn’t being used. “Spyware” is software that is used to track and record a user’s actions (such as the web sites that they visit) and then report that information across the Internet to some person or business (perhaps for the purposes of showing “targeted” advertisements that are meant to be relevant to the user’s interests). Spyware and adware are often bundled with other applications and installed without asking or informing the user first.

The following packages, however, are all reputable software and do not contain any adware or spyware:

QuickTime

QuickTime is the name of Apple’s video technology. They make a player application which is free to download. It is also included with iTunes (because iTunes makes use of QuickTime). You might notice that Apple also talks about “QuickTime Pro“. This is a paid upgrade which adds functions to the player for converting video to different formats (including MPEG-4).

Advantages

• Very easy to use.
• Works inside your web browser, making it easy to watch MPEG-4 video on the web, such as the excellent quality movie trailers provided by Apple.
• Made by a major software company.

Disadvantages

• Player supports all types of MPEG-4 video, but doesn’t support many other common formats.
• QuickTime is more demanding on the computer’s processor than the other options listed here. Processing MPEG-4 video can be demanding so this may make a difference on older computers (especially with larger videos).

VLC

VLC is a popular free media player which is available for many different types of computer. It works with a huge number of different video and audio formats.

Advantages

• Can play many different types of video file, including most AVI files, WMV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.
• VLC is fast. If you have an older computer then it may be able to play videos smoothly which cause QuickTime Player to stutter or skip.

Disadvantages

• VLC is very powerful software and has advanced features like format conversion and hundreds of different options. These might be daunting for first-time users.
• VLC is free and open-source software which is made by volunteers, not a software company. As such, they do not hold patent licenses for the various patented video formats that are supported by VLC. This means that, depending on where you live, you may need to obtain patent licenses yourself in order to be able to legally use VLC.

CCCP

CCCP is the Combined Community Codec Pack. A codec is a piece of software that is used to play a particular video or audio format. CCCP is a free collection of various codecs and other pieces of media software, which can be used to play back many different kinds of video. This option is interesting because it uses the media system that is built into Windows (called DirectShow), and so it makes Windows Media Player (and some other media software) able to open the new formats.

Advantages

• Allows you to use Windows Media Player, which you may already be familiar with.
• Uses the same core decoding software as VLC, so it is just as fast.

Disadvantages

• CCCP is a collection of many different pieces of software that work together. This makes the installation somewhat complicated, and may be daunting for people who are not used to using video software. It is also possible for there to be conflicts between the codecs installed by CCCP and codecs which are already installed on the computer (although the installer tries to eliminate these conflicts).
• Has the same patent license issues as VLC, because it is also created by volunteers.