Boinc Slackbuild on github

Since Slackbuilds will not host my BOINC slackbuild which uses svn to download, compile sources, I created a github account and uploaded them there.

https://github.com/KaMiila/BOINC-SlackBuild

Disable root access on SSHD

Why slackware does not initially disable root access on SSHD is beyond me, here is how to turn it off:

login as root:

nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Change from:

# PermitRootLogin yes

Chang to:

PermitRootLogin no

Save and exit

Issue command:

/etc/rc.d/rc.sshd restart

**** Make sure you remove the comment (#) or nothing will change ****

Manually Configure Blogilo

The auto-fetch option for blogger did not work for me so I manully configured Blogilo to use blogger. This is my first post from Blogilo (lets hope it actually posts)
Login to your blog via webpage (you may have to click on the name of your blog to get the correct url ID, copy the location)
URL = http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=000111222333444555666
Add your username and password
username@gmail.com
Mypasswordisweak
Click on the Advanced tab
Select blogspot.com from the dropdown menu
copy just the blog id number from the url (this was the first step we did)
click OK

EDIT:  This apparently is not working on slackware-current which uses Blogilo version 1.1 and KDE version 4.8.4.  There is an error message:  An error occured in the last transaction. Server (Atom) error: Could not regexp the id out of the result.

Enlightenment hacks

Quicklaunch

If you want to put a quicklaunch of Enligtenment's file manager on your IBar:

Right-click on the IBar --> IBar--> create new icon

Under applications type:

enlightenment_remote -efm-open-dir $HOME

Name it whatever you feel like it, choose an icon you like, click apply, save, then add the new icon to your IBar

Right-click on the IBar --> IBar --> Contents

Scroll down to the icon you created (sorted by name alphabetically)

Adding a systray for all the programs that are running:

Right-click on your shelf --> shelf bottom --> contents

click on systray

you will need to exit Enlightenment and restart it (DONT click the restart button, that will not enable it)  just exit the DE and startx again.


Caution


The Enlightenment devs seem to think their software is stable or at least not beta.  BEWARE IMO it is and should be in the ALPHA stage, there are tons of bugs and minor issues that will annoy you.  You have been warned.

I no longer use E17 after playing around with it for only 30 minutes.  Too many issues to worry about.  But I continue to look at it after each new release to see if they actually fixed anything to make it useable.

Steam

I was having a lot of issues getting some steam games woring under wine.  This issue was prfesent on two machines.  One a desktop, AMD with NVIDIA GPU, thebother, ASUS N35SV laptop with Sandybridge.  At first I thought it was an issuewith Bumblebee not cooperating with wine and steam, but I was getting the same problems on my Desktop, so I started messing around with wine some more.

First:

Install wine it its own instance via winetricks
WINEPREFIX=/foo winetricks steam

This will probably create a steam folder in ~/.local but wecan always move it later if we want.  You're choice.
Next figure out what other winetricks you need.  Most likely and unfortunately you will need .NET

WINEPREFIX=/foo winetricks dotnet20

If it barfs at you about fonts, see my post on how to remove them, then run the same command again.

You will probably also need direct x drivers and service pack drivers.  Install al with winetricks, if possible.  I ran into an issue with servicepacks, so I had to grab them of Micro$hafts website.  Just google it, or if you love Micro$haft, use Bing.

Also, steam has an option to backup and then restore your saved games.  I have tested it and so-far it works.  So if you dont want to spend 27+ hours redownloading over 100 gigs, then use thebackup and restore option.  I did however notice an issue with backing up under wine.  When it reached 100% it just hung there saying it was archiving (I forget exactly what it said) so after a few hours I checked my system tonsee if it was actualy doing anything (cpu activity, HDD activity, ram, swap) there was no action, so I looked in the folder where it was suppose to save the file.  It was ther intact (from what I could tell) so I simply killed Steam, restarted and began gaming.

If games are still not playing, you might need to disable the in-game Community Overlay

Steam --> Settings --> In-Game --> Deslect the Steam Community In-Game check box. you may also need to install gecko, tehoma, and corefonts.