I spent a lot of time finding the right way to do this, so here is a quick note. For work, I need to debug a small piece of code I wrote. But the main software (closed source) load my library (via dlopen) and run it in a single thread.
That’s fine, but I’m unable to [...]
admin August 20th, 2011
Ok, let’s go for another big issue on the road to build a complex distro .. Maintainers tend to include one feature after one .. and now Debian is getting closer to bloat ..
Anyway, sometime ago the HAL was introduced in Xorg. This allow you to hotplug mouse / keyboard … But if for a [...]
admin July 4th, 2009
After a windows fresh install, the windows setup decided to drop my MBR to put its stuff in. Fine .. but I want my grub back now !
This is an old trick, but udev added a little complexity, so let’s give it a try. First boot on a Ubunty CD, open a console and run:
(here [...]
admin October 30th, 2007
3D drivers (openGL) have awlays been a source of problem on Linux.
A lot of people just don’t care, since they don’t use there computer
to play games. But yesterday, something change this fact: Google released
a native version of Google Earth for Linux[1]. As I already played with
Google Earth before, I really want to test this new [...]
admin June 13th, 2006
This is really something i need to learn, and never forget. But this is kind of stuff, I always forget. So I write it up right now.
ps aux|gawk ‘$11 == “ssh” {print $2}’
admin November 15th, 2004
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 [...]
admin August 3rd, 2004
Pam_USB is a pam_module that allow you to log in w/ a usb-key (or a cdrom/ floppy .. any removable device w/ a serial number or a free space to hold DSA keys.)
This is pretty kool since, this kind of stuff can be usefull. I think about:
security of course ( using Additional directive )
or usefull [...]
admin December 19th, 2003
Last week, Debian server has been hacked. Ok but take a look at http://www.wiggy.net/debian/developer-securing/ you will learn how they try avoid this in the future. Mainly by avoiding lkm in linux.
admin November 29th, 2003
Un petit nouveau dans les kiosques http://www.redhatmagazine.com/fr/ . A la lecture du sommaire, il me semble assez interessant à suivre donc ..
admin November 29th, 2003
I have been asking for this for a while .. and the only answer is : buy a CD.
That said, here a sample doc found here: http://deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20031105030127
admin November 7th, 2003