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Advogato seems to have quite a lot of power with google :) this is a good thing, i believe, but with that power comes responsibility, on our part, to make sure that the information linked to is actually important - so for god's sake don't abuse it.

my link Toshiba Satellite Pro A100 which is a report on installing debian on one of these machines is on the first page of the search words - very amusing.

The only things that outrank it are article reviews (trustedreviews.com ha ha) and people quite likely to be paying some money to google for advertising the sale of their A100 laptops (kelkoo, laptopsdirect, etc. etc.) but hey whether they are or aren't, i find it amusing to be near the top of the list.

the same thing happened for the Acer 5044WLMi, which, as a less popular machine, ends up as the top hit ha ha.

well, the conversions to linux go on.

i'm doing about one every week, so far - that's five new reports of laptops, three of which are written up, in the past couple of months. cool!

the one i did last month was my sister's laptop - _really_ nice screen (1280x768) _really_ odd resolution - i think it's a dell.

there are only a couple of laptops with that size screen.

fortunately, installing the 915resolution package, along with xdebconfigurator, xresprobe, detect, discover and read-edid (apt-get ....) as well as the xserver-xorg package, made it happily auto-detect the screen size and successfully configure Xorg.

i was really impressed.

it's all listed here:

http://lkcl.net/d-i/etch/classes/kdedesktop/late_script

exim4 virtual domains i've been looking for these instructions for _ages_! they work, beautifully.
23 Jan 2007 (updated 23 Jan 2007 at 02:12 UTC) »

well, i finally got round to setting up one of the most exciting free software projects i've been involved in. exciting for its simplicity and usefulness - rather than from a technical perspective of 'oh ain't that greaaat cooode'

basically what i am doing is combining pptpd, backuppc, rsync daemon, debian-installer, apache2 with ssl, to provide a means to automatically install - and back up - debian multimedia / home / office desktop systems.

oh - and i took the oem-config .deb from ubuntu and hacked it into submission as well.

the evil plan is to sell preinstalled linux systems on ebay (Penguin PCs Online for not much money and then to make some money per month on offering an automatic backup service.

i think that's very cool, i dunno about you :)

p.s. .avi, .mp4 and .mpeg files are automatically excluded :)

fucking microsoft shit.

i bought some machines to sell on ebay, with linux pre-loaded. it turns out that, if you do that, that windows cannot be installed on the machine.

apparently, according to this, HP have had a practice of 'tattooing' machines.

The symptom is that any OS _other_ than windows on the machine causes the XP install to go 'blank' and shut down the machine after it checks the hard drive.

fucking great.

20 Jan 2007 (updated 20 Jan 2007 at 16:48 UTC) »

another laptop report, this time for an hp omnibook 500 - great little machine!

i'm selling it on ebay :)

zaitcev:

if you're now heavily into gpg, do consider taking a look at richard lightman's linux-from-scratch modifications.

he made /sbin/login use gpg as the authentication mechanism.

so you type your gpg passphrase, to log in.

steven: hi,

i installed the fglrx driver on a shared-memory system, with a 64-bit processor. xine was so unusable it was unreal: the framerate was measured in seconds per frame.

it looked absolutely great, though, with the anti-aliased fonts.

when i switched to the xorg ati driver, performance immediately went through the roof: xine was down to 17% cpu.

fglrx uses far too much memory, and uses it very badly.

it would be fine on a system with dedicated ram for the graphics.

6 Jan 2007 (updated 6 Jan 2007 at 05:27 UTC) »

I'm doing a debian-installer local cd which is customised to boot, without questions, even at the linux boot prompt, and to read the configuration information specifically off of my server.

the reason for wanting to do this is because i have a legacy-free pc with no ps/2 ports and i don't have a usb keyboard.

to be honest it would have been a lot easier to take the hard drive out and use debootstrap...

... but i want other people to be able to download the CD image i've created, and to be able to give them dreadfully simple instructions...

hw6915 suspend/resume - might be fixed...

arg arg arg a post by paul psokolovsky on kernel-discuss@handhelds.org describes a horror-story debugging session in suspend/resume, where, it turned out, he hadn't converted _one_ device driver for the h4000 from a legacy struct device to the more up-to-date struct platform_device.

apparently you can't mix-and-match both in your hardware: you have to all struct device or all platform_device.

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Syndicated 2006-12-22 02:10:37 from lkcl's blog

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