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Monthly Archives: February 2008

EEEPC

Sunday, February 24, 2008

A few days ago I got myself an Asus EEEPC to experiment with it being in a role of a small server and a tiny internet kiosk. I installed Debian on it, but the process was not for the feint of heart, that’s for sure. First of all the d-i font was messed up [...]

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(Latvian) Velostāvvietas Rīgas centrā

Friday, February 8, 2008

(This blog post is in Latvian and is about a public discussion that the capital of Latvia, Riga is having about where to put new bicycle racks in the center of the city. In the post I point to an article describing where to send in suggestions, point out a few possible locations for such [...]

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Sneaky blacklisting of WiFi in HP laptops?

Thursday, February 7, 2008

I’ve been there before, but somehow I hoped that HP has come to its senses, so when my girlfriend got a HP Compaq 6715b laptop with a Broadcom wifi card that does not work with the open source driver and randomly crashes under load with ndiswrapper driver, I said – “well, I’ll just get an [...]

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Super bowl XLII

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

No Debian content here. Just like last year I decided to watch one of the largest sport events in the USA – the final game of the National Football League Super Bowl XLII (roman numerals are different for the sake of it ). I came to like the Japanese take on American football, [...]

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Using FUSE encfs in a graphical way

Saturday, February 2, 2008

If you want to use encfs module from FUSE to encrypt some of your files and do not want to go into the command line to mount and unmount that encrypted folder, here is what you do:
Add a line such as this to your /etc/fstab:

encfs#/home/aigarius/.crypt/ /home/aigarius/crypt fuse rw,user,noauto 0 0

Where ‘/home/aigarius/.crypt’ is the folder where [...]

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