Jan 12
It seems that Microsoft changes something in their msn protocol, because since 12th January 2009 pidgin cannot communicate with the service any more. While the instant messenger kopete for KDE still works, the multi protocol messenger for mac Adium have the same problem.
I get the error message Unable to retrieve MSN Address Book while starting pidgin this morning . The pidgin community suggests that this is a server-side issue and that the MSN server does no longer supports the MSNP15 protocol.
I found an very easy and quick workaround to get pidgin back working with msn. Just install the msn-pecan package
sudo apt-get install msn-pecan
and reconfigure your msn account by choosing WLM as protocol.
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written by phi.mic
\\ tags: Ubuntu
Jan 02
Today i found a very handy tool to send twitter updates directly through pidgin (the most popular IM client for gnome). I will explain the installation of this pidgin add-on for Ubuntu 8.10 (intrepid). First add the following two new lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list
### twitter.com plugin for pidgin
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/sugree/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/sugree/ubuntu intrepid main
Then just install the package pidgin-microblog with:
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0CF459B8DF37ED8B
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pidgin-microblog
Now restart the pidgin client and add a new Account through Accounts –> Add/Edit, for protocol choose TwitterIM and enter your Twitter-Login and the associated password. After this there will be an new contact named twitter.com. Don`t forget to enable the Twitgin plugin in Tools –> Plugin.
To send twitter updates just send an instant message to this new contact and you are done! Take a look at the microblog-purple project for more information.
written by phi.mic
\\ tags: Ubuntu
Nov 13
Today i did a upgrade of my Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) to the new release Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid). The upgrade procedure was really easy, you only need two commands and about 30 minutes
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install update-manager-core
sudo do-release-upgrade
You should modify the file /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades, so that the update-manager allows you to upgrade to a non-lts release:
[DEFAULT]
# default prompting behavior, valid options:
# never - never prompt for a new distribution version
# normal - prompt if a new version of the distribution is available
# lts - prompt only if a LTS version of the distribution is available
Prompt=normal
I had an old VirtualBox OSE 1.6.2 installation which should not seems to work with the recent 2.6.27 kernel modules. So i first delete the old VirtualBox release and installed the recent stable release from Sun.
sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-ose
sudo echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian intrepid non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-2.0
written by phi.mic
\\ tags: Ubuntu, VirtualBox, Virtualization
