Paolo Conti - WebLog

If you want some custom made ringtones, chose your MP3, convert to M4A, rename the file to M4R then drag it in iTunes and sync. That’s it.
Under linux I’m using for the conversion stuff soundKonverter, but you can choose your preferred software…

If you have to use Xdebug but you don’t want to “going crazy” with manual building from sources or with pecl, you can download a binary version of Xdebug from the ActiveState website (get the PHP Remote Debugging archive for your OS and use the binary version according your PHP version).
Nice gift ActiveState!

If you have your vm hosted on a NTFS partition and the mount.ntfs-3g is eating all your CPU power, try to update the NTFS 3G to the last version and add to your .vmx file this config line:
mainMem.useNamedFile=FALSE

If you are experiencing some strange behaviour with the keyboard (the four arrow keys, Home, End, PageUP, PageDOWN, etc… are not working correctly) in Vmware Server 2.0 and your host is Linux, you can try to fix this problem with this terminal code:

echo ‘xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true’ >> ~/.vmware/config

I’m playing with OpenLaszlo from a while (an open source platform for the development and delivery of rich Internet applications), but I have found some problems installing it on my developing system (currently I’m using Kubuntu Intrepid Ibex).
I have found the solution and due to lack of documentation about it I have decided to write […]

To fix the ALSA/flash player problem:
# sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound

The new version of my preferred virtual machine environment is out, I’m using it, but the problem with audio device/ALSA is still present.
The new web interface (new??? I remember the “same” interface with the old GSX…) adds some cool features, but the way to fix the ALSA problem is the same of the previous version…

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Since the Freevo packages are out from Ubuntu repositories, I’m stuck with Freevo 1.7.2. This is annoying because some plug-ins, like last.fm are not working anymore…
I know, the correct way to fix this, is to build some set of .deb packages, but I have no experience about building .deb from source, so I’m going to […]

Tipicamente utilizzo la tecnologia di virtualizzazione, l’amministrazione remota e tutta una serie di tecnologie correlate, ma Synergy è stato in grado di impressionarmi. Ed in questi giorni, trovare qualcosa che mi impressioni, è decisamente raro
Se siete famigliari con il concetto di doppio monitor, dovreste sapere di quanto questo setup aumenti la produttività: uno […]

Well, I’m used to virtualization technology, remote desktop management and all this kind of stuff, but Synergy is something that amazes me. And in these days, find something that impresses me, is quite unusual
If you are familiar with the dual monitor concept, you know the level of productivity you can reach with this […]