Monthly Archives: August 2004

What ‘s wrong w/ Sony Vaio K115S Designers ?

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Yes, i get another notebook on my desk. In fact, i buy a Sony Vaio K155S for a uncle. I won’t publish a long post about installing Linux on this, because he will use Windows XP. I spend some hours to install several things: OpenOffice, WinSCP, Mozilla etc etc ..

This notebook run really smoothly, it has great CPU, and video card. Playing RTC, is really fun!

It has been a long time since i played w/ XP. I now i’m remember why i don’t like it. I spend most of the time to ask me: my name, my company and my serial number. And yes, this is too intrusive for me… and I’m wasting my time! Every vendor, want to know everything .. my sex lenght? nobody ? :))

Anyway, despite I found this notebook really kool, I think the design is really bad:

  • Most of users are right hand mouse user? But Sony put the USB pub on left !!
  • Sony put the power supply connector on the right .. so the cable is under the DVD tray …
  • The battery capot sound cheap .. it make noise in fact :(
  • The PCMCIA seems to be cheap too, inserted card aren’t well lock ..

I’m currently writting a Knoppix DVD edition on this stuff to test :)

Linux Kernel Hackers remove the Philips USB Webcam support

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Everybody hate binary kernel module: that’s clear, but sometimes that the only way to use some hardware.

This is really a bad news to all webcam users: USB kernel hackers decide to patch PWC kernel driver to avoid the use of the extended kernel module which is binary only. Check out this for more infos.

update: read this thread. Why Philips doesn’t provide spec ?

Expérience et Hip Hop

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Je viens d’écouter la Session d’Expérience sur France Inter. Et whoa .. j’aimais bien les paroles de Diabologum mais là.. Le sound a pris un petit coup de HipHop .. et whao pas mal du tout. Je vous conseille tout particulièrement ‘Ils sont devenus fous’ (à 64min)

OverKill / Oh my god

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Last night, while listenning a web-radio.. I heard a old (really old) song. Hum heavy metal. I don’t usually listen to this stuff .. But i know this one, i spent part of the night to find what is this song ..

And i found it ! Motorhead / OverKill . Oh my god ! Why i’m listening to this craps ? Perhaps i want to get it back to me !! :)

Grub install on Debian Howto

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By default Debian install Lilo on i386 arch. I really like lilo, but after a couple of broken config file and severall other hitch. I decided to install grub. Grub is a bit hard if you never install it before. But mainly because the apt-get install grub doesn’t install a default file. So

apt-get install grub
grub-install /dev/hdXX #where to put the bootloader

Now you can reboot. But to have a nice menu edit a file /boot/grub/menu.lst like that:

default=0
timeout=5
boot=/dev/hda

title Linux-2.6.7
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7 root=/dev/hda2 vga=791 ro

title Debian-2.4
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.26-1-686-smp ro root=/dev/hda2
initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.4.26-1-686-smp

title Memtest
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin

Note: My boot is hda2 (hd0,1) second partition of the first disk