Today I set up a GPG installation on a Windows 7 machine and I ran in to a problem. My problem was that Thunderbirds extension Enigmail, didn’t recognize the Cryptophane frontend. Cryptophane is a Windows frontend which makes the handling of keys, en- and decryption of files very easy for everybody. When I tried to make mail encryption work in Thunderbird, I got the following error message:

Unable to locate GnuPG executable in the PATH.
Make sure you have set the GnuPG executable path correctly in the OpenPGPG Preferences.

Failed to initialise Enigmail.
Send unencrypted message?

How to fix?

First I thought, I had to use another GPG frontend which would work with Enigmail, but in the preferences of Enigmail, there was a lot easier solution.

1. open Thunderbird
2. open OpenPGP -> Preferences
3. mark “override with”
4. click “Browse” and find your Cryptophane installation directory (for example: C:\Program Files\Cryptophane\GnuPG\gpg.exe)

Done!

Clementine right now is a ported Amarok 1.4 (which right now is at version 2.4) and it happened to become my audio player of choice a couple of days ago. Before that I’ve been using Songbird on Mac OS X but as I consider it slow I was looking for an alternative, because iTunes certainly is NOT an option for me. iTunes does not support my favourite formats and the way Clementine and Amarok handle the music library and playlists is much more what I like. The library at the side and the main window is the playlist.$

Clementine is right now at 0.6 and there is also a Windows binary available for download. I’m mentioning it for Mac OS because there’s just not that much variety on this platform as on Windows or Linux.

Features i value most:

• clean and fast interface and library
• last.fm connection support
• Growl integration (notifications)
• support for many audio formats like MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, FLAC or AAC

Today was announced that the Sintel movie has already got a million views on youtube. (direct link)

Download Sintel in high definition

Maybe you will recognise a character from a previous open movie project The story and the execution are pretty well done. There’s an awesome turning point, so watch and share this

Sometimes around the internet it happens. Somebody sets up a board real quick and doesn’t add the right language pack, setting it as standard. So when you want to change the standard board language in a phpBB3, it will not apply the feature before users are logged in and logged out again or they edit it manually.

UPDATE phpbb_users
SET user_lang = "de"
WHERE user_type = 2;

Your table doesn’t need to be called phpbb_users, but maybe has a prefix you defined yourself. Check in the settings of your board or with phpmyadmin. You should also check user_type and see the IDs available there so you can run the command for all groups in there.

Links:

• phpBB3
• phpmyadmin

Es soll ja schon einmal vor kommen, dass man ein Forum wie z.B. phpBB3 aufsetzt und das nicht gleich in der richtigen Sprache. Eine Menge Leute melden sich an und dann möchte man die Sprache ändern. Eigentlich kein Problem, davon abgesehen, dass ein Aus- und Einloggvorgang der Nutzer notwendig ist oder diese manuell die Sprache ändern müssen.

UPDATE phpbb_users
SET user_lang = "de"
WHERE user_type = 2;

user_type sollte vorher ausgelesen werden (man kann die Anzahl der Mitglieder ersehen und diese mit der Software abgleichen, ob man denn auch die richtigen Gruppen erwischt. Ansonsten Kommando einfach für Gruppen einzeln ausführen) um herauszufinden welche Gruppen IDs aus der Datenbank mit welchen im Board überein stimmen.
Links:

• phpBB3
• phpmyadmin