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Archive of entries posted on January 2012

KMail: “Signing failed: Bad passphrase” message in Debian 6 Squeeze KDE

Posted by  on 30 January 2012, 10:21 pm

I was recently trying to setup automatic signing of messages in KMail and I hit a problem : each time I am sending something, I got the message “Signing failed: Bad passphrase” without any opportunity to enter passphrase for my private key. It looks like this:   It seems like you have to specify proper path [...]

Filed under compulsive thoughts, debian.
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Compiling kext for Intel82566mm under Lion 10.7.2 64-bit

Posted by  on 24 January 2012, 10:07 pm

I was recently playing with Intel 82566MM device driver for Mac OS X based on the e1000e open source project and noticed that the driver is really targeted for 10.6 and is unable to compile easily under Lion 10.7.2. I decided to play a little bit and compile it for Lion 10.7.2 x64 bit. Here [...]

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Changing background color of iGoogle or Google pages?

Posted by  on 20 January 2012, 8:05 pm

I noticed that since the beginning Google is not allowing to change background colour of it’s pages. It is pity, as if you take for example DuckDuckGo you are able to modify the background color easialy: DuckDuckGo Settings page. Moreover, you can easily specify to use always HTTPS, which is not yet the case for [...]

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Not Idle Task tool for Linux

Posted by  on 15 January 2012, 8:16 pm

Since I am using Debian most of my free time, I decided to re-write Not Idle Task tool for Linux. Voilà: If you have no idea what the “Not Idle Task” tool does, please consult the following page: http://www.shcherbyna.com/?page_id=1382 This version is tested in Debian 6 x86_64 and Fedora 16 x86_64 and is supposed to [...]

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Happy New Year! (2)

Posted by  on 3 January 2012, 7:56 pm

New machine, up-to-date, one week old. Was running happily until BSOD occured BugCheck E0010002, {fffffa800703a000, c, 205, 94e} Probably caused by : nusb3xhc.sys ( nusb3xhc+14bbc ) Followup: MachineOwner ——— 0: kd> !analyze -v ******************************************************************************* * * * Bugcheck Analysis * * * ******************************************************************************* Unknown bugcheck code (e0010002) Unknown bugcheck description Arguments: Arg1: fffffa800703a000 Arg2: 000000000000000c [...]

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Happy New Year!

Posted by  on 1 January 2012, 12:30 am

Time is passing very fast, and the new, 2012 Year has just arrived. I wish you all the best in 2012: achievements of your goals, good health, and a very, very positive attitude to life! A+

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