There are times when I need to use my Common Access Card at home. Being a Linux user, I figured this would be challenging to configure. It took a few hours of trying different packages and directions, but I finally have it working. Considering the process isn’t entirely straightforward, I thought it’d be good to document the steps here.
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I love Amarok and wanted to install it on my MacBook. With Qt4 on the horizon, it will be possible to run Amarok natively in OS X without an X server. But I didn’t want to wait for Amarok2 to become stable, so I looked into compiling Amarok 1.4 and running it under X.
I tried following the On OS X guide with limited success. Apparently, ffmpeg won’t compile on Leopard and that caused the entire libxine compilation to fail. I tried various combinations of configure flags, but none seemed to help. I looked at the source to try and fix it, but unfortunately I’m not terribly familiar with x86 assembly.
For one of my pet projects, I needed to add a graphic to certain ListView rows. I considered owner-drawing the control, but that seemed messy. What I really wanted was a way to draw on top of whatever Windows painted. I couldn’t find a nifty .NET way to do this, so remembering a technique from the MFC days, I decided to custom draw the ListView. This would let me inject my own drawing code and let Windows handle the rest. Perfect!
I had originally implemented the ListView using a control style to eliminate the annoying flicker every time the list was repainted. Once I started custom drawing the control, I saw odd artifacts in the ListView’s client area when I scrolled or moved the mouse. If I turned off double buffering, it worked fine.
There are probably a million and one articles about how to make Samba 3 an Active Directory domain member. But with all of that, this process still seems to require hours of research. So I’ve decided to compile my latest experiences here.
The domain member box is running Gentoo Linux. So you may need to adjust the steps to fit your flavor. Make sure the USE flags kerberos, ldap, samba, ssl, and winbind are set. Start by installing an NTP client.
# emerge ntp