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Watch TV with VLC and a Freecom DVB-T Stick

2009-08-15T05:34:00.000-07:00

One of the things I need my Aspire One to do is watch TV. When you’re away, it’s nice to be able to watch a little TV. I bought a Freecom DVB-T USB stick years ago and have always had success under Linux. It’s small, sensitive and selective. I was surprised, especially on Ubuntu, how easy it was to setup. My netbook runs Arch, so I installed it on that and my Dell 1545 running Ubuntu 9.04.

Peter Makholm: Private methods in Perl5

2009-08-15T05:15:00.000-07:00

It is common knowledge that you can’t have private functions and methods in Perl5. But it turns out that you can do it, one way is to use namespace::clean. Using this module you can either declare all the names of private functions at the top or use a serie of non-obvious “use namespace::clean“, “no namespace::clean” calls. Wouldn’t it be much nicer just to be able to write: sub foo :Private

security of scponly/sftp-server in combination with apache

2009-08-15T05:13:00.000-07:00

While I am not a fan of scponly/sftp-server (openssh) many people are still using it to give users the possibility to up/download files from the host without the need to provide them with shell access. If you do a simple setup like http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/94 or configure scponly without using a chrooted environment and you do this on host that also has a standard webserver

The most complete list of commands on linux

2009-08-14T18:31:00.000-07:00

COMMAND DESCRIPTION System information arch show architecture of machine uname -r show used kernel version dmidecode -q show hardware system components - (SMBIOS / DMI) hdaparm -i /dev/hda displays the characteristics of a hard-disk hdparm -tT /dev/sda perform test reading on a hard-disk cat /proc/cpuinfo show information CPU info cat /proc/

Running the BlackBerry Emulator on Linux

2009-08-14T11:19:00.000-07:00

I seem to have gotten it to work, more or less consistently (although I'll keep my fingers crossed). The first step is: do everything this guy says, and thank him profusely, as he seems to have blazed a path for everyone else to follow. http://www.slashdev.ca/2008/03/27/blackberry-simulator-in-linux-sort-of/ Keep in mind that newer versions of the JDE (mine is 4.7) have different devices, so

Speed up dpkg on older systems

2009-08-14T11:14:00.000-07:00

My main desktop is 7 or 8 years old and has never been reinstalled.dpkg has become so slow that I started to shy away from using it, e.g. to purge packages. Not good.I always suspected that it was due to /var/lib/dpkg/status, the ever-growing dpkg status “database”^W plain-text file, which the programme had to scan multiple times per run, and I sought a means to compact it, and by that I meant:

Promises, Promises from Microsoft. Again

2008-02-23T04:11:00.000-08:00

Nobody is buying it. Well. Employees, maybe. Microsoft is once again promising interoperability and adherence to standards, but its own version of each. Interoperability that is safe only for noncommercial software excludes Microsoft's number one competitor, Linux. It is noncommercial and commercial, depending on who is using it. So, right there it tells you that this is a promise to do nothing

LinuxBIOS is now called coreboot

2008-02-23T04:04:00.000-08:00

Public Service Announcement: The LinuxBIOS project, a Free Software project which intends to replace the proprietary BIOS found in most computers these days, has been renamed to coreboot. The old name has become quite a misnomer in recent years; the name LinuxBIOS created the impression that it's a drop-in BIOS-replacement and that it's using Linux or is Linux-specific in any way. Neither is the

Linux Resource Controls

2008-02-23T04:01:00.000-08:00

Using the “ulimit” controls over process resource use it is possible to limit RAM for processes and to limit the number of processes per UID. The problem is that this often is only good for accidental problems not dealing with malicious acts. For a multi-user machine each user needs to be allowed to have two processes to be able to do anything (IE the shell and a command that they execute). A

Canonical to resell Parallels virtualization software through Ubuntu partner repository

2008-02-08T23:54:00.001-08:00

Ubuntu users can get direct, easy access to Parallels LONDON, February 7, 2008 - Canonical Ltd, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, today announced the availability of Parallels Workstation for Linux through the Ubuntu Partner Repository – giving Ubuntu users the ability to quickly find, install and run Parallels software. read more

What is the coolest thing you can do using Linux that you can't do with Windows or on a Mac?

2008-02-04T23:37:00.000-08:00

1. Upgrade to the newest version legally and without paying money 2. Have the latest version of the operating system run faster than the previous version on the same hardware 3. Easily install and run different graphical interfaces if I don't like the default setup 4. Install twenty programs with one command 5. Have the system automatically update all my installed programs for me. 6. Install the

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #76

2008-02-04T23:31:00.000-08:00

Some topics : Hardy Alpha 4 Released Ubuntu Server Team Focuses on KVM New Ubuntu Advocacy Banners New MOTU and Council Election Results Hug Day, 5 February 2008 Interview with Soren Hansen In The Press In The Blogosphere In Other News Upcoming Meetings & Events Updates & Security Bug & Translation Stats Read it here.

dillo: a super fast web browser

2008-02-03T01:08:00.000-08:00

Dillo is a extremely stable, fast and light web browser. Based on GTK+, you can install Dillo from apt-get or snyaptic for just about any hardware platform and window manager supported by Debian or Ubuntu. Dillo is written entirely in C for speed and compatibility and is best for tasks where being fast and frugal on memory are the highest priorities. Perfect for large image archive displays!more

Ubuntu and French Police

2008-02-03T00:36:00.000-08:00

“We will introduce Linux every time we have to replace a desktop computer,” he said, “so this year we expect to change 5,000-8,000 to Ubuntu and then 12,000-15,000 over the next four years so that every desktop uses the Linux operating system by 2013-2014.“ The world domination continues… source: jonobacon.org

The kernel evolution speed

2008-02-03T00:17:00.000-08:00

Apc quotes Jonathan Corbet on his “The Kernel Report” talk in LCA 2008: “We are adding about 2000 lines of code to the kernel every single day of the year, without exception,” Corbet said. “Nobody can really keep up with this [on their own] any more. It’s an amazing process, and it seems to be working.” Although I didn’t (and probably can’t) contribute a single line to the kernel,

fcrackzip - password cracker for zip archives

2008-01-31T20:59:00.000-08:00

fcrackzip is a fast password cracker partly written in assembler. It is able to crack password protected zip files with brute force or dictionary based attacks, optionally testing with unzip its results.It can also crack cpmask’ed images. Install fcrackzip in ubuntu sudo apt-get install fcrackzip fcrackzip Syntax fcrackzip [-bDBchVvplum2] [--brute-force] [--dictionary] [--benchmark] [--

SecurityFocus Linux Newsletter #373

2008-01-30T11:20:00.000-08:00

1. Linux Kernel VFS Unauthorized File Access Vulnerability BugTraq ID: 27280 Remote: No Date Published: 2008-01-14 Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27280 Summary: The Linux kernel is prone to an unauthorized file-access vulnerability affecting the VFS (Virtual Filesystem) module. A local attacker can exploit this issue to access arbitrary files on the affected computer.

The openSUSE Build Service Expands Support to Red Hat and CentOS

2008-01-30T11:04:00.000-08:00

The openSUSE Build Service delivers collaboration between all Linux developers, becoming a center for building software for any Linux distribution NUREMBERG, Germany (Open Source Meets Business Conference) -- Jan. 24, 2008 -- The openSUSE(R) Build Service, an innovative framework that provides an infrastructure for software developers to easily create and compile packages for multiple Linux*

Fixing Windows - Linux to the rescue

2008-01-30T10:54:00.000-08:00

My mothers computer had died. Well, the Linux on it was still working, so she was able to open her document files, read her email and use chat. Pretty much everything works under Linux, with the exception of using the Fax functionality of the AVM Fritz!Box via CAPI-over-TCP. (Ironically, the Fritz!Box itself runs Linux, so it's just because AVM doesn't bother to supply a Linux client too).

Windows vs Debian

2008-01-30T10:51:00.000-08:00

Freesoftwaremagazine has an interesting comparison (at the end of the article) between Vista and Debian (unfortunately, they use sarge numbers, but numbers for etch wouldn't be that different.) The (not really surprising) conclusion: Kernel + libc + X + KDE + Mozilla compared to Vista (assuming that this is about comparable, functionality-wise), Vista is more than three times as big (LoC) and,

The state of the Debian project

2008-01-30T10:44:00.000-08:00

The first of my talks at LCA 2008 gave me a chance to talk about the current state of the Debian project, which got me my first LWN.net coverage — with a photo, even (subscribers only for now, the article will become public on 7 February). Thank you, Jonathan Corbet, for a very good article which nailed all the main points! Slides are here. I agreed to this talk on short notice because I like

Nokia to buy Trolltech?

2008-01-30T10:41:00.000-08:00

According to a notification of trade on the Oslo Børs market, Nokia has made an offer for Trolltech of about 843 million Norwegian kroner , around €104 million. What this could mean for GTK+ is anyone’s guess. I’d expect at least that Nokia’s competitors that use Qtopia (like Motorola, Panasonic and Sony) are probably a little worried at the moment. Maybe there’ll be impetus for OSSO to move

Manually install Adobe Flash in Ubuntu

2008-01-23T11:19:00.000-08:00

I realized the other day that the flashplugin-nonfree package appears to be broken. It’ll act like its installing but at the end, if you pay close attention, it’ll give an error about the md5sum not matching and give up. This applies to installing the package manually or via the browser notification itself. I wanted to post a temporary fix while we wait for the package to be updated. Manually

Changing The /tmp Cleanup Frequency

2008-01-23T10:59:00.000-08:00

While the /tmp folder is not a place to store files long-term, occasionally you want to keep things a little longer than the next time you reboot, which is the default on Ubuntu systems. I know a time or two I’ve downloaded something to /tmp during testing, rebooted after making changes and then lost the original data again. This can be changed if you’d like to keep your /tmp files a little bit

Ubuntu security announce: OpenSSH vulnerability (Kees Cook)

2008-01-23T10:15:00.000-08:00

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 6.10 Ubuntu 7.04 Ubuntu 7.10 This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: openssh-client 1:4.2p1-7ubuntu3.2 Ubuntu 6.10: