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 and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Thursday, December 27, 2007
My girlfriend is annoyed with USA timekeeping. More particularly with the way Sunday is the first day of the week in the Gnome calendar applet that shows up when you click on the time applet. After some searching I am unable to find how to change that short of changing the source code. Help me, [...]
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
I see that Erich is also trying to do something with AI classification of web pages. It would be interesting to find out what algorithms he is using and what the validation testing results are – I just did my Masters in a similar direction. But alas, his blog has no comments The thing i [...]
Everyone knows that Webmin is nasty – it does things in wrong way on a pure and nice Debian (and Ubuntu) systems and for some reason is not included in Debian (post-sarge) or Ubuntu. That does not inspire confidence in a root-running web based software to say the least. I have a need to have [...]
Friday, November 23, 2007
I am making a small project with TurboGears and I am just loving the widgets and the identity framework. There are some rough spots, like the documentation, but luckily for the most pars you can just launch an ipython interpreter and use tab completion to look at what functions are available. But then I got [...]
Monday, September 24, 2007
Unfortunately I will have to disconnect my FONera and buy a real WiFi router to replace it because that small box is a glitchy piece of crap compared to every other WiFi router out there. The killer: if the LaFonera can not connect the FON authentication servers, then it thinks that there is no network [...]
Many manuals of installing and using World of Warcraft (or simply WoW) in Linux using Wine (Windows emulation) are outdated and provide lots of complex instructions for old Wine version. The truth is very simple: Take a recent Wine version. Any version from this year (2007) will do. Debian and Ubuntu users can either use [...]
With great help from Ouattara Oumar Aziz an new version of SBackup is shaping up in the svn repo and a day ago I created a public beta version – 0.10.4~beta10 which can be downloaded here. Please report any bugs or regressions to Sourceforge bug tracker. Also an update for translations and new translations can [...]
