Vmware workstation 8.0.3 on Linux with kernel 3.2.0

Running Vmware workstation 8.0.3 on Linux with kernel 3.2.0 (in my situation Ubuntu 12.04 with kernel 3.2.0-24-generic) gave a module compilation error for the "Virtual ethernet" module.
Luckily more people had this problem and had a solution for this. :-) 

Download the patch from: http://www.linuxinsight.com/files/vmware-workstation-8.0.1-linux-kernel-3.2.patch

Go to the module source directory and untar all archives:
  cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
for file in * do
 tar xvf $file
done

Apply the patch:

patch -p0 < path_to_pathfile

Pack all archives once again, and get rid of the unpacked directories:

for file in *-only do
 tar cvf `basename $file -only`.tar $file
done
rm -rf *-only
Now you can rebuild and load modules:

vmware-modconfig --console --install-all 

When you see something like this:

Starting VMware services:
  Virtual machine monitor   done
  Virtual machine communication interface   done
  VM communication interface socket family   done
  Blocking file system   done
  Virtual ethernet   done
  VMware Authentication Daemon   done
  Shared Memory Available   done


Your all done and have fun!

SSHMenu alternative called SSHplus working on Unity

Have you been hooked to SSHMenu too? SSHMenu is a nice application that works on gnome 2.x and is docked at your taskbar.
I haven't even updated my Ubuntu desktop at my work to Unity yet , because SSHMenu doesn't work great on Unity.

Finally there's a very good alternative for SSHMenu that works good on Ubuntu Unity.  It's called SSHplus and it's been updated to even support SSHMenu config files! This SSHplus launcher even has good support for a huge list of host. Most of the other alternatives I've seen look good, but aren't very handy when you have a huge list of hosts to connect to. With SSHplus you can categorize hosts in folders or separate with a spacer / separator.
Maybe the only downside I noticed is, you can't add or alter hosts at the launcher menu. You have to manually change things at the config file (maybe this is only because I'm testing with a config file in sshmenu format). Personally I don't really mind this, I'm glad there's a good working alternative for Unity :-)

Client SSL Certificates with Android (2.3.3) OS on Samsung Galaxy S2

A colleague of mine found this site describing how to add a SSL .pk12 format certificate to Firefox beta. Not all on the above link worked for me that's why I'm writing down what I did to make it work on Android 2.3.3 on Samsung Galaxy S2.

1. Install and run at least once Mozilla Firefox (current version 5)
2. Please download from your Android phone to the PC: - Mozilla Firefox:   

/Android/data/org.mozilla.firefox/files/mozilla/.default/cert9.db
/Android/data/org.mozilla.firefox/files/mozilla/.default/key4.db

Thanks to JD:
He didn't have the mozilla dir with the cert9.db and key4.db files in it.
He got it to work by installing Firefox, then move it with App2SD (free in market) to my SD-card.
This way he received the folder /Android/data/org.mozilla.firefox/files/mozilla and also the folder '.default' where the 2 db-files were located.
After following the other step in this post and updating the 2 .db files (via pk12util.exe) He moved Firefox back from his SD-card to Local Storage and Things worked as they should be.

3. Move them to a MS Windows directory (Ex.: C:\keys )

4. Download the package NSS_Tools_x86_from_NSS_3.12.7 Tools.zip and extract it into a directory (Ex.: c:\nss-3_12_7)

5. Run command prompt ( CMD.EXE ) and change the directory where you have extracted NSS_Tools_x86_from_NSS_3.12.7 Tools.zip(Ex.: "cd c:\nss-3_12_7")

6. Executhe the command:

pk12util.exe -i -d sql:
( Ex.: c:\nss-3_12_7>pk12util.exe -i c:\epay.p12 -d sql:C:\keys )

Enter password for PKCS12 file:
pk12util.exe: PKCS12 IMPORT SUCCESSFUL


If you have more client certificates - do the same command again.

Thanks to GG:
Hi Ivo, We ran into this odd behaviour: When using the pk12util.exe, we got this question: "Enter a password which will be used to encrypt your keys. The password should be at least 8 characters long, and should contain at least one non-alphabetic character." As a mistake, we filled out our pkcs12 password here. You should skip this question by hitting enter twice. Then run the util again, and enter your pkcs12 password. on Client SSL Certificates with Android (2.3.3) OS on Samsung Galaxy S2

7. Move the "cert9.db" and "key4.db" files back to your Android phone. If necessary fix the ownership and access rights.

8. Restart Mozilla Firefox.

9. If you access a web site that needs client certificate authentication the browser will ask you to choose one of the imported client certificates and will you them

Samsung Galaxy S II USB storage

To access USB and / or SD storage on a computer of a Samsung Galaxy S2(SII) can be pretty handy for transferring files from one computer to another. Doing this doesn't need any additional drivers to be installed. It's like adding a USB drive.

Method 1:

* Enable usb debugging from Menu -> Settings -> Applications (on SGS2)
* return to home screen
* plug usb cable in
* pull down status bar
* press ‘ connect usb storage’ button


Method 2:

Alternatively, without USB debugging enabled

* Go to Settings > Wireless & Network > USB utilities and click the button > then (and ONLY then) plug in USB cable

convert MKV to DVD

I wanted to convert a mkv file to dvd and stumbled up on 2 nice methods on Linux.

with ffmpeg:
$ ffmpeg -i my_video.avi -target dvd -aspect 16:9 -sameq my_dvd_video.mpg

with Mencoder:
$ mencoder -channels 6 -ovc lavc -oac lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd:tsaf -srate 48000 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vpass=1:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=4000:keyint=12:trell:mbd=2:precmp=2:subcmp=2:cmp=2:dia=-10:predia=-10:cbp:mv0:vqmin=1:lmin=1:dc=10:vstrict=0:threads=2:aspect=16/9:acodec=ac3:abitrate=448 -ofps 25 -speed 25025/24000  -vf scale=720:576 -o


Create the DVD structure:
$ mkdir dvd
$ dvdauthor --title -f my_dvd_video.mpg -o dvd
$ dvdauthor -T -o dvd