linux

Normalize HipChat usernames

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When exporting data from HipChat Server or Data Center you will end up with unusable usernames due to the fact that HipChat doesn’t care about usernames, it uses email address as it’s authentication id.

It will create usernames (or mention names (mention_name variable) as it calls it) from your users full names, i.e. Firstname Lastname becomes FirstnameLastname, it will then allow users to change this into whatever they like. Now trying to import all these users into another system that uses AD/LDAP for authentication will most likely not work since your AD/LDAP will probably (most likely) not be setup to use accountnames constructed like FirstnameLastname. When importing into for instance Mattermost it will complain about email address already used with another username and bail out.

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Logitech MX 700 Mouse with Xorg 7.1.1

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My configuration that makes buttons (including thumb buttons) and wheel (including the small cruising buttons at the wheel) work (at least in Firefox) looks like this: In /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Section “InputDevice” Identifier “Mouse0” Driver “evdev” EndSection And in /etc/X11/Xmodmap: pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 6 7

If Operating Systems Were Airlines

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Surfade lite på chans idag och hittade en länk till ett inlägg i en blog som var helt underbar: Linux Propaganda Remix – If Operating Systems Were Airlines Jag har full sympati för den här killen, jag känner igen mycket av det han skriver.

New Wireless card

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Since upgrading to SuSE 9.0 on my laptop, I’ve been unable to get my Intel 2011B PCCard to work. Before, I was able to get Pavel Roskin’s Spectrum24 driver (which is now incorporated in the Linux Orinoco Driver project) to work, and it probably still works but I’m unable to get my running kernel to … Read more

wireless networking and cats day out…

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Here I am, in the sunshine – on the porch :-), just wonderful!! The cats are out on their own, for the first time I might add, we haven’t seen them in a couple of hours. I was pretty certain that Cujo would wander off and explore the neighborhood, but that Zorro would go with … Read more

SuSE 8.2 and wireless pcmcia in my laptop…

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I’ve had problems getting SuSE 8.2 to start dhcp on my wireless pcmcia card that I use in my laptop at home. For some reason, that I haven’t figured out yet but it’s one of either SuSE’s impementation or a change in the kernel pcmcia drivers, this interface is now called wlan0 instead of eth0 … Read more

framebuffer troubles…

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I’ve had some troubles getting my home system use highresolution consoles, virtual-terminals, framebuffers or whatever the official name is… 🙂

It started out as installation troubles. I went out and bought SuSE 8.2 Professional, but when I started the installation (which defaults to graphical) my screen went black. I thought that it was that I had a too new graphics card – GeForce4 Ti 4800 SE, but it’s not it’s the amount of memory in the system that screws this up.

And I have now finally found the solution.

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