Another birthday present was a laptop IBM ThinkPad 385XD upgraded to 96MB of RAM and 10GB HDD. It came with Windows 2000 preinstalled but I already build a Gentoo image on my desktop for it. Due to the fact that it has a quite slow CPU and only 96 MB of RAM, I was thinking…
Logitech Formula Force EX Wheel on Linux
On my birthday, my friends bought me a Logitech Formula Force EX Feedback Wheel. After playing with it a lot in Windows, I decided to make it work on Linux. The force feedback part didn’t work out of the box. I managed to make it work with the usb-hid driver after I added it’s usb…
Linux DC++ was added to Gentoo today
The ebuild for the Linux port of DC++ Direct Connect client (Linux DC++) was added today to Gentoo portage. I was waiting for a long time to see a reliable Direct Connect client on Linux.
Povestea lui Popescu
Urmatorul text a fost scris de DNA in 1999. Toate drepturile care este e ale lui. Popescu si durerile Facerii (sau nu tot ce face mecanica din om se mananca cu cac*t) …Popescu se uita lung la un CD, dupa care il puse la loc si incepu sa se plimbe prin camera. “pipal pipal pipal…
Romanian Demoscene Memories
When I was in highscool I was part of the Romanian demoscene subculture under the “PuthreGuy” nickname and I was part of the “General Failure” demogroup. I was also the SysOp of InfoVox BBS (FidoNet 2:531/10). “General Failure” was later renamed to “Float Entertainment” then to “Float|FX” when it merged with “Brain Damage” group. As…
Piatra Neamt 2007
It seems that Piatra Neamt looks better than ever this year. Too bad I could not go there these holidays. (Picture by Roger Mantu) More pictures can be found here: http://picasaweb.google.com/acsell/2006_12_13MyPiatraNeamt/
Bluetooth GPS on Gentoo
Configuring a Bluetooth GPS receiver on Gentoo was pretty straight forward for me. This assumes that you already have the bluetooth stack up and running on your Gentoo box. # emerge -p gpsd # hcitool scan Scanning … 00:0B:0D:6E:65:8A iBT-GPS # sdptool browse 00:0B:0D:6E:65:8A Browsing 00:0B:0D:6E:65:8A … Service Name: SPP slave Service Description: Bluetooth SPP…
How to upgrade udev to 103 on Gentoo
I run into some problems when I upgraded udev to version 103 on Gentoo. In order to have it working I needed to: emerge -C coldplug emerge -C hotplug emerge -C hotplug-base emerge -C udev rm -rf /etc/hotplug rm -rf /etc/hotplug.d rm -rf /etc/udev emerge udev emerge baselayout etc-update rc-update del coldplug rm -f /etc/init.d/coldplug…
Linux Kernel 2.6.19 released
For the first time ever, the Linux Kernel includes a stackable file system. The new file system name is eCryptfs and it is based on FiST. “eCryptfs stores cryptographic metadata in the header of each file written, so that encrypted files can be copied between hosts; the file will be decryptable with the proper key,…
Move along!
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