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Sync calendar and contacts (ownCloud): General (Part 1)

Posted 07-14-2015 at 08:07 AM by jere21
Updated 07-14-2015 at 09:07 AM by jere21

Tags android, debian jessie, icedove, owncloud, sync

This is the first of a series of blog posts with a complete guide to sync calendar and contacts between Debian Jessie laptop (as server and client) and Android (CyanogenMod) mobile:

General
Setup CalDAV/CardDAV server (on my laptop):
ownCloud, Apache, self-signed certificate
Setup calendar and contacts in Icedove (rebranded Thunderbird) and Iceowl (rebranded Lightning):
export, transform and backup the data with a script (owncloud.export), SOGo connector, ThunderSync,

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Automatically update flashplayer-plugin

Posted 07-11-2015 at 04:03 PM by jere21
Updated 07-20-2015 at 08:13 PM by jere21

Tags debian jessie, flash, systemd

Code:

ii  flashplugin-nonfree  1:3.6.1  amd64  Adobe Flash Player - browser plugin

Debian doesn't update the flashplayer-plugin automatically to avoid downloading an unchecked 3rd party proprietary binary. If you want to ignore that risk for convenience do the following:

/usr/local/bin/flash-update.sh

Code:

#!/bin/sh
update-flashplugin-nonfree --install

/etc/systemd/system/flash-update.service

Code:

[Unit]
Description=update-flashplugin-nonfree

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Scanner (here: Mustek Bearpaw 1200 CS), Scanning and file size reduction under Debian Jessie

Posted 06-05-2015 at 07:44 AM by jere21

Tags debian jessie, pdf, scanner

tl;dr:
Save A1fw.usb to /usr/share/sane/gt68xx/ and start scanning with sane.

More general instructions for installing a scanner:

Your user should be in group "scanner" and sane must be installed. In my case I have:

Code:

ii  libsane:amd64         1.0.24-13    amd64  API library for scanners
ii  libsane-common        1.0.24-13    all    API library for scanners -- documentation and support files
ii  libsane-extras:amd64  1.0.22.3     amd64

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Iceweasel (Firefox) plugins I use (Debian Jessie)

Posted 06-01-2015 at 10:06 AM by jere21

Tags debian jessie

See 2012 post here.

Packaged in Debian:

Code:

xul-ext-adblock-plus     advertisement blocking extension for web browsers
xul-ext-debianbuttons    Buttons for querying Debian-related pages with Iceweasel/Firefox
xul-ext-itsalltext       extension to edit textareas using an external editor
xul-ext-treestyletab     Show browser tabs like a tree

Not packaged:

Code:

ACE editor for sources.d.n  In-browser editing of Debian sources on sources.debian.net

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Gnome 3 and Debian Jessie

Posted 12-07-2014 at 12:46 PM by jere21
Updated 06-18-2015 at 06:31 PM by jere21 (systemd-cron)

Tags debian jessie, gnome

My setup/configuration changes and wishlist for Gnome 3 in Debian (Jessie comes with Gnome 3.14):

Install

gnome-shell-extensions (although Gnome recommends to only install extensions from https://extensions.gnome.org, but no packaged extensions.)
gnome-system-tools (many things, e.g. GUI for user and groups management. IMO this package should be suggested or recommended by some other gnome package more prominently (currently only gnome-nettool suggests it and lxde (!) recommends

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