Saturday, October 31, 2009

Empathy and Samba

I installed Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala, on 2 boxes yesterday. One is on my wife's ThinkPad as dual boot. It occupies 6GB of disk and works as a charm. Another one on my existing Ubuntu 9.04's partition and reuse my /home file system. I had at least two problem when I began to use my new Ubuntu.

The first problem is from Empathy, the substitution Pidgin as an IM client. I got "Network error" when I tried to login my MSN account. I solved this issue by
 killall telepathy-butterfly  
but still feel uncomfortable with its user interface. Maybe I should give Emesene a go or stick with Pidgin.

Another problem is I could not mount my NAS using SMB/CIFS. I got a message box says
Unable to mount location
DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)
It turned to be a keyring related defect. My workaround is deleting all the smb entries in Password: default group in Passwords and Encryption Keys.



In my case, it's not a fresh install or an upgrade. Maybe that's the root of the 2 problems I encountered. To be a good trouble shooter, you have to be a good trouble maker.

Friday, October 30, 2009

HTTP Monitor in NetBeans

By default, the HTTP Monitor function in NetBeans 6.7.1 is disabled. To enable it, go to Properties of GlassFish v2.1.



PS Ubuntu 9.10 is out today. It's so hot that I cannot download its torrent file, don't even think about the iso file. Thanks to zsync, I have ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso on my disk now.