Installing Chrome on Intenso Tab 417

Basically.. (2013-01-22)

All you need to do is download the Google Play store *.apk file and install it on your device, then download Google Chrome through the App store.
Solutions found on Intenso Tab 714 – Playstore installieren.

USB connection (2013-01-22)

Start your Tab 417 and connect it to a computer with a USB to Micro USB cable. A notification about an established USB connection will appear on your device in the lower right corner. Click on it and enable the device's USB storage feature. This will enable you to mount the whole drive on your computer and transfer the file if you chose to download it on your computer.

*.APK file (2013-01-22)

Now, download the Play store. Your best option is to just search for "google play store apk" on xda-developers.com, androidpolice.com or your favourite search engine. Depending on where you get it from, you have to change your security settings to allow the installation of unauthorized apps. In any case, you have to restart your device after the installation.

Chrome

In January I tried to get Chrome running, but it would always close and throw an error message. I digged a little deeper and it was something related to some Java library, as far as I remember. I was unable to resolve this.

After another try today, four months later, it runs smoothly. I'm surprised of how smoothly it runs, with all the nice Chrome features.

Enjoy!

Workaround: ZHLT fails to read WAD list properly

So I just recently picked up mapping for Team Fortress Classic again. I hadn't done it for a few years, so I was actually surprised how well everything worked with my new computer, operating system and all. Except one thing: The wad.txt would not be included properly, as seen below.

This happens when your wad.txt looks somewhat like this:

halflife.wad
zhlt.wad

This actually has a very simple fix: Just add a backslash ( \ ) to the beginning of every line and it should work perfectly fine.

\halflife.wad
\zhlt.wad

Windows 8 clean install with an upgrade license

I really needed a clean Windows installation, so after moving a lot of files I reinstalled it, and all went well so far. But then Windows 8 told me it wasn't activated. I tried entering my key again, but it then told me:

The Software Licensing Service determined that this specified product key can only be used for upgrading, not for clean installs.

 Luckily, I wasn't the only one with this issue. This post in the Microsoft forums describes the solution quite well. Here's a step-by-step tutorial for you.

• Press [WIN] to open the start menu, type in regedit and press [ENTER].
• Then, navigate to this folder: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Setup/OOBE/" and set the registry key "MediaBootInstall" from "1" to "0". Close the registry editor.
• Press [WIN] to open the start menu, type in cmd, right click the "Command Prompt" entry and choose "Run as administrator". Confirm with "Yes".

In the command prompt, type:

slmgr /rearm

Restart your computer and your copy of Windows 8 will run on a clean install with an upgrade license.

A few helpful mail tips

Most of these things never really bothered me on their own, but after some time it just starts to get annoying. Especially when all the mail you get is about how a file exists that you could easily and quickly delete, or how the configuration is just not right for another certain, convenient feature.

How do I read mail? / Which client should I use?

To read your mails, you could use the standard mail application. I suggest you try others, like mutt. It's actually quite nice, if, like me, you just need a client to read local system mail. When it comes to more, you might want to check if your favourite E-Mail desktop application can read the system mail.

Mailing to remote domains not supported

You should be careful with this: If you misconfigure the external access to your mail daemon, you could become a spamhost. Kris Leech posted something about this in 2010, he's also the source of this simple solution.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config

Then, select the top entry: "internet site; mail is sent and received directly using SMTP". The next entry may be left at default, which should just be your system's name. In my case, I left it to be JuiceFridge8. The next one is important! "IP-addresses to listen on for incoming connections:" decides, who is able to actually send you mail. Leave this on the local addresses 127.0.0.1 and ::1, that way it's limited to internal mails only. The next one may be left empty, it may also say something like "systemname.localdomain", which should be alright in most cases. The next one should be left empty, it decides which hosts to relay mails for; since we limited the system to receive mails only from localhost, this shouldn't matter. The rest can really be left on default values.

ALERT: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size, mail system possibly broken

This actually has a very simple solution: Remove the paniclog file. It took me too long to figure this one out.. I didn't realize it said "has non-zero size", aka. "dude, the file is not supposed to be there".

sudo rm /var/log/exim4/paniclog

After doing this, check if the error still appears.

sudo service exim4 restart 

That's it! :) 

Using XFCE with GDM

If you are using XFCE with GDM and are tortured by the "slow keys"-feature after holding down Shift, you might want to take a look at this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=816764
I don't remember when I had this problem, but I feel it was sitting around as a draft long enough. I hope this can help someone out there! I can't test it anymore, since I've been using MATE for some time now.

Upgrade ownCloud from manual install to repository

I started out with a manual installation on version 4.5.4. It was located in a /home/ folder rather than the /var/www/ directory, which gave me opportunity to think some more. So, let's begin.
Go to the folder your ownCloud installation is in and tar it, in case anything goes wrong.

sudo tar -cjvf owncloud.tar.bz2 owncloud/

Since it's now owned by root because of the sudo, make it yours now.

sudo chown orangensaft:orangensaft owncloud.tar.bz2

Subscribe to the new ownCloud server repository.

sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list

Add this line at the bottom:

deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/isv:ownCloud:community/Debian_6.0/ /

Then add the key, update your repositories and install owncloud.

wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/isv:ownCloud:community/Debian_6.0/Release.key
sudo apt-key add - < Release.key
rm Release.key
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install owncloud

If your manual ownCloud installation was not in /var/www/owncloud, you need to copy the config file to the new directory.

sudo cp config.php /var/www/owncloud/config/config.php

This is a step I didn't have to do: Copy your owncloud/data/ folder! This folder stores all your cloud files! Since I have it configured to a different mount (my /storage/), I was able to skip this.
Check your httpd config - in my case it's Apache: /etc/apache2/sites-available/ - and replace the old path with the new /var/www/owncloud/.
After you've done this, restart your httpd (sudo service apache2 restart) and you're done.
You should now be on version 4.5.7. :)

MySQL Dump: Access Denied

I needed an SQL dump of my Global GoldSrc Database to continue work locally. Un-/Fortunately, the server owner and sysadmin is very concerned about server security, so I was unable to just dump the database with this:

mysqldump -p -u osaft osaft_gtfcdb4 > osaft_gtfcdb4-20130213.sql

The server wouldn't let me because of insufficient access.

mysqldump: Got error: 1044: Access denied for user 'osaft'@'localhost' to database 'osaft_gtfcdb4' when using LOCK TABLES

Fortunately, there's a simple solution that should work like a charm: --single-transaction.

mysqldump -p -u osaft osaft_gtfcdb4 --single-transaction > osaft_gtfcdb4-20130213.sql

Then just bzip it (or not) and you're done!

tar -cvjf osaft_gtfcdb4-20130213.sql.bz2 osaft_gtfcdb4-20130213.sql