3 is my mobile carrier. It offers an online service which allows its customers to check the current usage from their phones by accessing this URL: three.net.au/my3/gethome.do. Usually it works quite well, but not today (and probably some more days to come), it gave me a HTTP ERROR 404. I thought I should just visit http://three.net.au and find out w-t-h is wrong. Unexpectedly it took me to another site — “callenden group policy wording”. It’s very weird so with some spare time, I decided to do a little investigation. ...

This is a self-note. $ banshee --disable-dbus

On Ubuntu 10.10, if you get an error message as the following when trying to create audio CD from mp3: “Unable to handle the following files due to an unsupported format: You may manually convert these audio files to wave using another application supporting the audio format and then add the wave files to the K3b project.” Check if you have libk3b6-extracodecs installed, if not just; $ sudo apt-get install libk3b6-extracodecs ...

On Debian: # apt-get install libnet-ldap-perl

Banshee just crashed on me with the following error message: [Info 20:44:59.949] Running Banshee 1.6.1: [Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (linux-gnu, x86_64) @ 2010-06-18 18:47:49 UTC] [Info 20:45:01.043] All services are started 0.949921 Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteException: <strong>The database disk image is malformed</strong> database disk image is malformed at Mono.Data.Sqlite.Sqlite3.Reset (Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteStatement stmt) [0x00000] at Mono.Data.Sqlite.Sqlite3.Step (Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteStatement stmt) [0x00000] at Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteCommand.ExecuteNonQuery () [0x00000] at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteCommand:ExecuteNonQuery () at Hyena.Data.Sqlite.HyenaSqliteCommand.Execute (Hyena.Data.Sqlite.HyenaSqliteConnection hconnection, Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteConnection connection) [0x00000] --- End of inner exception stack trace --- I think this is how it happened. My computer hanged while Banshee was running, and I had to force reboot it. Hence, the Banshee database file was corrupted. Thanks to boombox1387 from Ubuntu forum, this problem can be fixed as the following: ...