Custom kernel on your XENvz (OpenITC)
Abstract This page is a tutorial on how to get a custom kernel running on a XENvz VPS.
Category Linux (generic)
Regular expressions with bash =~
A number of articles in the web give examples of how to use the bash regular expression operator =~ that exists since bash version 3. However the majority of these examples did not work for me. The enlightenment occured when…
OpenOffice 3.2 build fails on Gentoo
Building openoffice 3.2.0 failed for module bridgetest with: ERROR: error 65280 occurred while making … A previous build succeeded with the java USE flag disabled. There are a number of bug reports pointing to bug 283668, which seems related to…
eix-update fails
If eix-update doesn’t quits with the following error message: Unknown cache ‘none’ for directory ‘/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise Then you’re running a newer version of eix with an older configuration file. Maybe you haven’t run etc-update or dispatch-conf yet?
Feeding bad block reported by the kernel into e2fsck -l
Intro Today I did again a backup of a machine that has served me well for years. As it happens with old hardware, apparently some hard drive sectors have gone bad over time. These messages I got in syslog: hda:…
Feeding bad block reported by the kernel into e2fsck -l
Intro Today I did again a backup of a machine that has served me well for years. As it happens with old hardware, apparently some hard drive sectors have gone bad over time. These messages I got in syslog: hda:…
Run a copy of your AA1 in VirtualBox
Intro This article is about how to get your AA1 image running in VirtualBox. This is useful, when you need to support a Acer AA1, but cannot have your own. These notes here are a brain dump after the implementation…
Going online when a USB device is plugged.
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…
Acer Aspire One
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…
Using HotSpot Shield under Linux
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…