Darned KDE Upgrade: Fixing Dolphin

Lost my information panel during one of the last KDE upgrades. Do this to get it back

Rename or delete the following (dolphinpartrc may not exist):

~/.kde4/share/config/dolphinrc
~/.kde4/share/apps/dolphin/dolphinuirc
~/.kde4/share/apps/dolphinpart/dolphinpartrc

Tip found at the opensuse forums.

It's not Man's Work unless you shed a little blood doing it

Polished half my intakes. Before and after picture. Little difficult to see, but the insides are much smoother. The parting line from the casting is nearly gone now. Flapper wheel and injuries (from trying to get the upper seal off) below.

Before & After

Flapper wheel: 80 Grit

Looked real bad before washing off the blood

Might have hit a major piece of Good Luck

So, when I went to drain the carbs on the Valk today, nothing came out. So, it is entirely possible that at some point over the last several years, I did indeed drain the gas out of the carbs.

Gods that would save me a lot of time and trouble if I don't have to tear all 6 of those gorram things apart.

Will tear one down and see how it looks. If good, I'll hopefully be able to avoid all of that work, and can just dump in some carb cleaner for the first couple of tanks.

Helpful Manifold Tip #1

So, after removing the first two intake manifolds, I removed the two screws for the third (in my case, the third was the left side front). Turns out that if you remove all 6 of those screws, the whole carb bank pivots up, which makes removing the manifolds much easier.

Right side intake manifolds

I'm certain it will be easier to install them that way as well.

I'm also going to polish the insides as long as I have them off. Rumor Mill says that should improve mileage by about 3 mpg. Certainly can't hurt anything.

Note to self: Note the position of that little bent tab at the rear manifold. There is one of those on the left front manifold as well. Not sure what it does, but I want to make sure it goes back in the same position.

Valk Tear Down Day 1

2011-08-25:

Pulled the tank off:

test

pig

Clockwork Recovery on the 3G Xoom

Ref XDA:

Download Clockwork Recovery for the Xoom, then:

Linux:

$ ./adb reboot bootloader
$ ./fastboot flash recovery recovery-solarnz-XXXXXX-XXXX.img
$ ./fastboot reboot

After rebooting:

$ ./adb reboot recovery

Or install Quickboot from the market.

Unlock & Root 3G Xoom

Software needed:

-Android SDK: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

-Java SDK (use synaptic)

-fastboot (from HTC): http://developer.htc.com/google-io-device.html#s2

Linux:

Create this file (as root): /etc/udev/rules.d/51.android.rules containing:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0bb4", MODE="0666"

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="18d1", MODE="0666"

Xoom: Make sure "USB Debugging" is on (Applications->Development)

Linux:

Open konsole in SDK/tools directory (ie: ~/Download/Motorola/xoom/SDK/android-sdk-linux_x86/tools):

$ ./adb reboot bootloader

$ chmod 777 fastboot

$ ./fastboot oem unlock

Wait....

Unlocked!!!

Enter info on Xoom...Make sure "USB Debugging" is on again.

Linux:

$ ./adb reboot bootloader

$ ./fastboot flash boot rootboot.img (From here.)

$ ./fastboot reboot

Wait...

Linux:

$ ./adb remount

$ ./adb push su /system/bin

$./adb shell

# ln –s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su

# chmod 4755 /system/bin/su

# exit

Install Superuser from market

Install busybox from market

Install Titanium Backup from market (Do NOT install busybox from within Titanium Backup!)

How To Remove Hidden Partitions From Hard Drives

I hate those hidden, virtural CDs that come on some newer external hard drives. Apparently, this is how to remove them: HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool.

It's a windows app tho. Blech.

Information here.

How To Make Thunderbird Open Links In KDE

Seems like the easiest way to make Thunderbird properly work on PCLOS using KDE is to do this:

1. Go to the config editor (Edit->Preferences==>Advanced->General->Config Editor)
2. Agree to the warning if it pops up
3. Enter this into the filte box at the top: network.protocol-handler.warn-external.http
4. Double-click each entry shown to change it to true.
5. Close the Config Editor.
6. Click a http or https link, and wait for the dialog box to open asking what application to use.
7. Click on Choose and browse to a web browser ("/usr/bin/chromium-browser" for example)
8. Place a check where it says to "Remember my choice" if desired.
9. Profit!

This also works if you click an internal T-bird link, such as "Get Themes" in the Add-ons dialog box. There is a noticable delay before that box pops up tho in that case. Just wait a minute and all will be fine.

More details here at the PCLOS forums.