L.A.M.N.K

I must say incredible good looking. Even better than Windows typography. Heck, if Ubuntu’s fonts were this good … Maybe because of the 19″ monitor ?

The only thing you need to do is to install MS font pack and the default dpi setting need to be tuned. But it looks so good that I’m thinking of switching to openSUSE now

Update: I can make the fonts on Ubuntu look like in Windows now, we just need to turn anti-alias off in /etc/fonts/local.conf

Update: it seems not turning anti alias off will solve the problem …

Errm … as we already know, our admistrator account (the one that we use to log onto Vista) doesn’t really have access permission to all over the system. So when you do make install in cygwin you have permission error. The workaround is to activate the real Administrator account:

Right click on Computer and choose Manage. Select Computer Management (Local) > System Tools > Local Users and Groups > Users and double click the Administrator user. Uncheck Account is disabled. Right click on the Administrator user and choose Set password and enter a password for the Administrator user.

Now the Administrator account is activated, fire up cmd and execute the following commands:

cd c:/cygwin/bin
runas /user:Administrator bash

The last command will open up cygwin with the Administrator account. But now it’s environment is not set up properly, we still need to copy the skeleton files to proper home folder /home/Administrator/:

. /etc/profile

First, you must install OpenSync, an open source synchronization framework at http://www.opensync.org/wiki/download, either compile from source or use the pre compiled packaged for Ubuntu from this repository. Please note that the version numbers of OpenSync and it’s plugins must match. I installed the following packages:

• OpenSync
• Msynctool
• Evolution 2 plugin
• SyncML plugin (this plugin requires libsyncml)

After finishing the installation you mus add the sync group and it’s members:

$ msynctool --addgroup Sync1
$ msynctool --addmember Sync1 syncml-obex-client
$ msynctool --addmember Sync1 evo2-syn

Configure the SyncML member:

$ msynctool --configure Sync1 1

It will open nano to edit the config file. This is mine:

<config>
<bluetooth_address></bluetooth_address>
<bluetooth_channel></bluetooth_channel>
<interface>0</interface>
<identifier>Sony Ericsson</identifier>
<version>1.1</version>
<wbxml>1</wbxml>
<username></username>
<password></password>
<type>5</type>
<usestringtable>0</usestringtable>
<onlyreplace>0</onlyreplace>
<recvLimit>0</recvLimit>
<maxObjSize>725000</maxObjSize>
<contact_db>addressbook</contact_db>
<!-- calendar_db>calendar</calendar_db -->
<!-- note_db>tasks</note_db -->
</config>

Configure the Evolution member:

$ msynctool --configure Sync1 2

My config file for Evolution:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
<address_path>default</address_path>
<calendar_path/>
<tasks_path/>
</config>

If the default path doesn’t work then you must change default address path to something like:

<address_path>file:///path/to/your/evolution/address/book</address_path>

Now plug the USB cable cable in your phone (you don’t need to select the phone mode, just leave it). From this part we have a small problem as we need root permission to use the usb and if we sync as root Evolution doesn’t has any entry at all to sync because Evolution is run as normal user. So we must get the permission from udev:

$ lsusb
... Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0fce:d042 Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB

Take note of the Bus and Device number, and run the following command:

$ udevinfo -a -p $(udevinfo -q path -n /dev/bus/usb/002/003)
...
ATTRS{product}=="Sony Ericsson W810"
ATTRS{manufacturer}=="Sony Ericsson"
...
ATTRS{idProduct}=="d042"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="0fce"
...

Create a custom file in /etc/udev/rules.d/ called custom.rules and put the following in the file:

SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0fce", ATTRS{idProduct}=="d042", MODE="0660", OWNER="YOUR-NAME-HERE"

using the information from the udevinfo command we ran above. Now we are happy to go !

$ msynctool --sync Sync1

It should looks like this:

Synchronizing group "W810-Evolution"
Member 2 of type evo2-sync just connected
received event dsession
received contact dsession
Member 1 of type syncml-obex-client just connected
All clients connected or error
…

It’s done

Just moved this site to a VPS. Having your own hosting box is quite cool ( well it’s not actually a box ). I reckon that the site loads much faster now.