UBUNTU 11.04 - Some unconfort

- Unity: I tried getting accustom for weeks, but I give up and use the classics
- Kate: Still has no GNOME counterpart for me. Bugs on buffers. not happy. If not fix in the few weeks updates, I might get back to 10.04LST which work just great.
- ALSA: crawling forum by forum searching for solutions. I still has no audio.

Setting date and time on CentOS

Well most linux should also follow the format.
The syntax is

$ sudo date MMDDhhmmYYYY

LETTER CODES
MM - Two digit month number
DD - Two digit date
hh - Two digit 24 hour system hour
mm - Two digit minute
YYYY - Four digit year code


if you are already root, you can ignore the sudo

Here is a valid example command, where I am login as root already

$ date 071509442011

You should see the confirmation date after you executed that command, and will be similar to this
Fri Jul 15 09:44:00 PHT 2011

to confirm just enter date command
$ date

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
You might want your bios clock to adjust to your new OS clock, so that when you rebooted, your OS will use the newly adjusted date and time.

$ hwclock --systohc

Maybe I will try to post on how to set NTP. But for now this is just my personal notes. Hope someone find it useful.

New Blog Approach

I keep on searching for something I already found before. That is finding information for something I am doing, something that I dont bother remembering "How To's".. well instead of putting them on my notes, I will also now try to put it on blogs. here.. I hope somebody could also found some useful information here. Well here it start.. :)

Sync Tomboy Notes for Windows on UbuntuOne

I been back on my Windows environment lately and are missing many things that I been comfortably using on Ubuntu. One of them is my Notes. Somebody might suggest using other services like Google Notebook (I am still using this), Evernote and other tools and services available.

Basically I am using Tomboy notes for simplicity and just there for being my sticky pad.

When I install Tomboy notes on windows, first think I check is how to sync it with Ubuntu One. I Google it and found this link, scroll down the tutorial until you found the instruction for Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) and 10.04 LTS (Lucid) its the same with windows tutorial located after this, that tells how to use Tomboy Web.

Here is the link https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/Tutorials/Notes

Asterisk MusicOnHold File Priority

Yay!.. I dont know if it is a bug, or there is other setting for this.
musiconhold.conf

[class001]
mode=files
directory=/var/lib/asterisk/moh_custom/
sort=alpha

The config above does work alright although sorted reverse. Say you have a file a.mp3, b.mp3, c.mp3, d.mp3... The first one to be play is d.mp3 and last is a.mp3... Ok that can be handled, and this work ok for me as of I can manage my file on which one would be first and last. UNTILL if you have more than 4 files on that directory, the playlist become random in order, yet still following a pattern. Because if you remove sort=alpha and place random=true, the playback is in random and should be, but with other flaw, The files will be random played after each files finished playback. It means that a.mp3 can be plays every turn and c.mpe could not be play during the playback duration... Hmmmm... Well this bug exist on Asterisk 1.4.22-4 RPM by vc-rpms@voipconsulting.nl on my test machine...

I hope this save time for somebody out there, and make my wasted time go into used and not bother trying to arrange your playlist if you have more than 4 files in a directory.

DO NOT PUT MORE THAN 4 FILES IN MOH that is if you want to preserve your playlist in order..

Songbird Rocks

I just installed again Songbird. I forgot the last version I used but it look like a black browser than a music player. Fond if it because of its lightness. I change my desktop PC to Notebook PC, and I just forgot all about Songbird just today I download it and install it. Got amazed by the new look, and note it support most of the Firefox plugin. including this plugin I used for blogging. ScribeFire, download it here http://www.scribefire.com/. I think I am back to my blogs again. I wish...

Got Hook on 7 Things

Very busy lately and just stop to note that I like the song 7 Things by Milley Cyrus. I mark it 5 stars on my songbird player.