Posted in GNU/Linux, tagged X on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Getting xinerama working with the closed source nVIDIA driver is easy. However, setting it up using the open source nv a bit tricker.
The solution, however, is quite easy once you know it Figure out the total capacity of your screens:
$ xrandr -q
Add the horizontal and vertical max sizes of your screens and [...]
Posted in GNU/Linux on February 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Was to install an Oracle DB on my Debian system the other day. Now, a big kudos to Oracle for providing Debian packages of their XE version. However, the non sense started once the thing was apt-get-ed.
It turned out that if you set the system user password to ‘admin’, you cannot log in! What kind [...]
Posted in GNU/Linux on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve just installed the latest Debian “testing” on my new Thinkpad X300. I’m amazed. No, I’m speechless. Impressed. Wow!
I’ve gone from scratch (i.e. removing Windows and installing Debian) to a fully working system with wireless, all needed multimedia codecs, graphical desktop, office tools, skype, working webcam, 3D realtime rotating representation of the laptop (using the [...]
Posted in GNU/Linux on September 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In my last post I wondered how long it would take before vmware failed to compile again. A month it turned out. After today’s upgrade of my kernel etc, I got the following
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:146: error: unknown field ‘nopage’ specified in initializer
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:147: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:150: error: unknown field ‘nopage’ [...]
Posted in GNU/Linux on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When upgrading one of the Debian stable server I administer with the latest security fixes to remedy the this bug in the ssl random number generator, I couldn’t get the newly generated server keys validated.
Amazing, I cannot believe this, having only stable package sources (with security), I upgraded all packages, but the newly generated server [...]
Posted in Email, GNU/Linux, tagged Email, Linux, Mozilla, Thunderbird on January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
All of a sudden, after using Thunderbird happily for half a day, it all of a sudden stopped sending emails, complaining about my Temporary file/directory setting. However, I could not find any such setting in any of the configuration dialogues.
It turned out that my /tmp/ directory was not writable by my user, a quick chmod [...]
Posted in GNU/Linux on November 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today, my laptop has been up 178 days. This includes daily hibernation & weekly updates of the entire operating system. I’m impressed
For the curious, the details include Thinkpad X32 laptop, the Debian testing distribution with the Debian stable kernel (2.6.18).
Posted in Community, GNU/Linux, Java on September 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was positively suprised to find a rather good RPM plugin for Maven2. It has a neat way of specify both mapping and package scripts. I haven’t looked at package dependencies yet, but it looks good!
Now, if only the DEB plugin for Maven2 would be usable, we would be in package heaven once again! [...]
Posted in GNU/Linux on July 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Interesting, this is the first time I’ve read someone favouring Debian over Ubuntu: MEPIS to Switch from Ubuntu to Debian.
Posted in GNU/Linux on June 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There’re many reasons for why I compile the kernel myself. It’s to get some piece of hardware to work that the stock kernel doesn’t support (this is definitely the reason why started compiling the kernel years back), is to get it as fast and slim as possible, it’s to see where the kernel development is [...]
