Over the weekend I setup a Ubuntu 8.04 installation in my apartment. The main purpose was to have a box to use to connect to my Tivo, but I am also going to use it to play with Java servlet and jsp development.
Of course none of this is any fun without Internet access. So I started configuring my Linksys pci wireless adapter. Turns out that the longstanding bug that affects the WPA2 passphrase store in Gnome Network Manager is still not fixed.
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Those of you out there who are running an installation of SCT Luminis 3 may have noticed that the browser check always comes up warning you that the browser is unsupported when using Firefox 2, even though all the features seem to be completely supported.
This is due to the fact that the browsercheck javascript does not know about the new agent string that was introduced with Firefox 2. Generally a new release, or service pack to Luminis fixes this for newer browsers.
In order to change this you will need to alter a couple of files in you Luminis install.
The two files that need to be altered are:
- webapps/luminis/js/clientsniffer.js
- /webapps/luminis/WEB-INF/templates/portal/browserchk.thtml
clientsniffer.js
In this file you will need to alter the conditional of the big if-statement that follows the assignment for the variable is_nav5.
The problem is that the if checks for the existence of a revision number of 1.8. What you need to do is add an additional check for a revision number of 1.8.1.6. So the if-statement conditional becomes:
if (is_nav5 || agt.indexOf(”rv:1.7.12″) != -1 || agt.indexOf(”rv:1.8″) != -1 || agt.indexOf(”rv:1.8.1.6″) != -1)
The next thing to do is to add an additional Firefox variable that is set to true if the major number is 2. I added this after the existing variable is_fox1_5.
var is_fox2 = (is_fox && (is_major == 2));
browserchk.thtml
In the browsercheck file you need to alter if-statement that sets the variable supported to have a true value. This if-statement should follow immediately after the one that checks for whether java is enabled in your browser.
What you need to add is an additional OR check, so that the if-statement conditional looks like the following:
if ((is_nav8) || (is_nav7) || (is_moz1_7) || (is_win && is_ie5up) || (is_win && is_ie6) || (is_saf1_3) || (is_fox1_5) || (is_fox2) || (is_win && is_fox1))
I have tested this change with Firefox 2.0.0.6 on the following browsers:
- Mac OS X 10.4.10
- Windows XP SP2
- Windows Vista
- Ubuntu 6.10
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Well, over the weekend some of the other sysadmins of the world provided the solution to the Office 2007 file download problems.
It’s all about the mime types. For those of you not in the know, a MIME type is an Internet Standard that is used to help webservers and e-mail servers know what kind of files are being served up and sent out. Check out the Wikipedia article for more.
So on an Apache webserver you need to add the following to your mime types file:
application/vnd.openxmlformats docx pptx xlsx
Thanks goes out to Vlad Mazek and his post on this one.
Now if only it was so easy for a Windows webserver running IIS. For the process on updating IIS, surf on over to the entry on David Oberton’s blog at a href=”http://uksbsguy.com/”>UK SBS Guy.
In the process of rebuilding my MythTV box with Gentoo, I found a bug in the 2.6.19 kernel when it comes to using wireless and ndiswrapper for my Linksys WMP54G v.4 PCI card.
When you configure the kernel you normally have to only select CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y and CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS=y.
But with the 2.6.19 kernel I discovered via post on a board that you also need to select one of the wireless chipsets as a module, even if you don’t plan on using it. If you don’t do this then CONFIG_NET_RADIO will still be marked as “n” when the kernel is built even though that isn’t what you selected at config time.
To check the required values you can use the following command:
zgrep CONFIG_NET_RADIO /proc/config.gz
zgrep CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS /proc/config.gz