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Upgrade iPhone OS in Ubuntu Lucid via Virtualbox

mexlinux — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:24:46 +0000

There is a problem with the default configuration of Virtualbox in Ubuntu Lucid that avoids the iPhone in Recovery Mode to be visible inside virtualbox. Therefor this grays out the option to connect the device.

Solution is very simple:

Add your user to the vboxusers group, and start over.

How to tether iphone on Ubuntu via USB

mexlinux — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:08:54 +0000

First you must have tethering enabled in the iPhone, either via your carrier, or via a 3rd party app such as MyWi.

Simply add the corresponding PPA repository, either via your prefered GUI or with the command:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:pmcenery/ppa

The update your sources with your GUI or with:

sudo apt-get update

And the install ipheth-utils via Syaptic, or with the command:

sudo apt-get install ipheth-utils

Ready, next time you connect your iPhone, Ubuntu Lucid will automatically connect.

Ask The Psychic Octopus on-line

mexlinux — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:46:41 +0000

Paul the Octopus

The on-line version of Paul the Octopus has arrived.

go to http://www.psychtopus.com and ask your own questions.

Religion is Bullshit

mexlinux — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:20:51 +0000

Religion is Bullshit, por George Carlin (subtitulado) from Ismael Valladolid Torres on Vimeo.

How to crop an image in Inkscape

mexlinux — Mon, 24 May 2010 23:24:57 +0000

There is no “crop” function in inkscape, how to achive that?
1-Draw a rectangle en top of the image as the size of the resulting image.
2-Select the original image and the rectangle.
3-Menu: Object->Clip->Apply

Ready, Image cropped.

NASA uses Red Hat Linux

mexlinux — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 01:14:31 +0000

Today I visited the NASA Space Center at Houston.
At the Mission Control Center there was a computer showing a Windows XP screensaver. Someone asked:
Do you use windows on all your computers?
The NASA guy answered:
“No, we use Windows only on the computer for the projector, for the rest, we use Red Hat Linux which is more reliable than Windows. Failure is Not an Option”

Trapped in Europe

mexlinux — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:19:45 +0000

Well I’m trapped in Rome because of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, maybe one of the best places to be trapped.
Here are some pictures of the airport.
What a usefull tools are skype and iPhone at this situations.

But I had a headache with all this traveling issue, so let’s better move from the airport to the City.

Relax and take it easy.

iphone works in ubuntu lucid lynx out of the box

mexlinux — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:35:58 +0000

Well, I have installed ubuntu 10.4 beta 1 and updated until today.
And it’s true!
iPhone works out of the box in Ubunu 10.4 Lucid Lynx

Pentecostal christians feelings

mexlinux — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:12:15 +0000

Christians say they want to wake up feelings, today they have succeded:
I feel embarrased for them.
How can they be such weirdos!?

How to sync music between iPhone and ubuntu using new ifuse

mexlinux — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:52:24 +0000

iphone and ubuntu can be much more well integrated now.

If you used the previuose method described here some months ago, you must first remove those changes:

First remove the packages

sudo apt-get remove gvfs-backends ifuse libiphone-dev libplist0 libplist-dev libiphone0 libgpod4 libusbmux0 libusbmux-dev gtkpod

Now let’s remove the jonabeck PPA repo:

Either adding it as root to your /etc/apt/sources.list file

Or with the GUI “Software sources”

Now: lets perform an update and upgrade:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

At this point it might be a good option to reboot the system.

New Mehod starts here

Let’s add a new PPA repository:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmcenery/ppa

Let’s make a full update and upgrade:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Let’s install the new needed packages:

sudo apt-get install gvfs gvfs-backends gvfs-bin gvfs-fuse libgvfscommon0 ifuse libgpod-dev libgpod-common libimobiledevice-utils libimobiledevice0 libimobiledevice-dev python-libimobiledevice libplist++1 libplist-utils python-plist libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev libusbmuxd1 usbmuxd

Now we have to add our own user to the fuse group:

sudo adduser $USER fuse

Let’s modify the fuse config file:

gksudo gedit /etc/fuse.conf

Uncoment the line that says

“#user_allow_other”

(uncoment means remove the “#”)

Ready: Now symply connect your iphone and it will be detected, you can see it in Rhythmbox and other media players.

Tip: iPhone should not be password protected when connected

You will notice that you have two iphone mounted devices, one as camera, and one as phone. Enjoy