I want my mom to be immediately online when she plugs her Huawei in the USB slot. While the Huawei E220 needs some special treatment, the rest of the procedure more or less works for any USB device providing modem…
I had been struggling the whole week with a phenomena I could not nail down. I had an include file that was included as per preprocessor output. However not any effect from the included file could be seen, not even…
The other day I ran `emerge -uD system`, because I felt I might actually loose contact to the cutting edge. I’m now gifted with a whole set on broken applications and libraries due to links that are not existing anymore.…
I always had some sort of pet in Dubai. These are my current ones:
I bought the other day an Acer Aspire One for my mom. She’s not a very technical person and in fact is more or less only using her current machine to write emails to me. My prime reason to replace…
Why? A friend of mine is promoting Linux in his company and for a certain number of applications he would like to use a public VPN service. Hotspot Shield is apparently one of the most widely known ones out there, so naturally…
What this script does and where it comes from Gentoo-prefix has been quite practical for me: I migrated from a Gentoo Linux machine to an Apple Intel Laptop. Since prefix is still very develop-mental and a large number of packages…
If you’re getting messages in gdb like … Cannot insert breakpoint … and … Temporarily disabling shared library breakpoints … in Gentoo-hardened it might be because you have the Pax extensions installed as the following site indicates: Solution is given…
Lots of stuff in a Mac is stored in property list files with the .plist extension on a Mac. Accessing them with Unix tools is possible and besides the usual C/C++/ObjC options there’s a perl interface to the necessary functionality…
A first word for the impatient: I’m not aware of a way to have a writable ext2fs filesystem on MacOSX for production use. Two options I came over to achieve it: A sourceforge project Mac OS X Ext2 Filesystem Google’s…