I recently made a payment to an on-line supplier, via “Nochex”. The supplier failed to come up with the goods and then failed to respond to my emails. I submitted a support ticket to Nochex and they promised to respond with 48 hours, but failed to do so.
Apparently it was a 24 hour experiment, but Google saw sense and ended it 10 hours early, after the twitterverse went beserk.
Why do we use Google? Because it is lightweight and fast. What could Google do to make themselves less appealing? Well, I suppose they could add a desktop background that adds to the clutter of the page and requires everyone to download a pointless image, but they’d never do something that stupid, would they?
And they have.
Before proceeding please visit Cendio and Fontis and use their respective instructions in preference to this page.
The Cendio SeamlessRDP component has two halves, a Windows executable as the “server component” for installation on the Windows server, and patches to the rdesktop application, to work with the server component. At the time of writing, these Cendio patches have now been merged into the rdesktop 1.5.0 and later core.
Spent some time setting up my wife’s email on the new HTPC, using Kmail and disconnected IMAP. Installed Google Chrome. Added a KDE Plasmoid on the desktop for Facebook and Twitter, which hopefully my wife will like. Other than that I have had no time to spend on the completing the MythTV installation. More soon hopefully.
Wow, this really is a second post in one day!
Following on from the DPI issue, I decided to throw science to the wind and just set DPI to 96x96 rather than 50x50, and the login screen looks better and the font size is improved (slightly larger).
A second post on the same day, has hell frozen over? No, actually I put the wrong date on yesterday’s post. Oops.
The DPI problem was fixed very easily by following the instructions on the link I provided in my previous post, I calculated that my Sony Bravia KDL 32S3000 had dimensions of 700mm x 390mm and a native resolution of 1366x768.
Changing the connectors around corrected the problem, I had assumed that the arrows on the connectors indicated +ve, when clearly they must indicate -ve, fixed and the LEDs all work fine.
At last the 24-pin ATX PSU extension cable has arrived - enabling me to perform a test boot.
It switched on okay, but the front LEDs were not working, neither the power nor the disk LED; so it seems that they are not wired up correctly, although I really can’t see how I could have got it wrong.
Well the build went quite well. I encountered two problems:
The Intel Atom A330 ION motherboard had two prongs for the Power LED, but the Lian-Li PC-C37 case had a cable for a three prong connector. The cable on has two wires, so I got around this issue by levering up the plastic catch holding one of the cables and moved it into the middle connector, which then fitted the motherboard fine, just with the now vacant connector overlapping the connectors.
