Archive for April, 2008
OpenSUSE 10.3 on Sony Vaio SZ4MN, webcam problems
I decided to install OpenSuse 10.3 in dual boot with Vista on my laptop, Sony Vaio SZ4MN. Everything it seems to work very well, without any problems, but I still have to test the modem and suspend to ram/disk.
After I did a kernel update from 2.6.22.5-31 to 2.6.22.17-0.1 and I realized that my webcam didn’t [...]
Testing google syntax highlighter
I can not understand why my plugin for source code syntax highlight dissapeared and now all my posts where I have some code/commands as example looks very strange. So, I decided to install google syntax highlighter and now I am playing with it. I am not sure if I will keep it because is javascript [...]
LaTeX with Eclipse IDE running on Windows Vista
Usually for Java stuff I am using Eclipse IDE.
I am also a LaTeX user and under Windows I am using MikTeX. More about which applications I am using in a next post.
As text editors, of course you can use vim/gvim (with vim-latex plugin), emacs (with AucTeX), TexnicCenter (a free windows application) or Kile (KDE aplication [...]
Wiping computer data before sale on linux
If you are thinking to sell your computer or only its hard disk then maybe it would be nice to know how to wipe your computer data.
After you followed this procedure there will be no way to recover your data.
The magic command is here, you can use LiveCD (for example Knoppix):
#shred -vz /dev/sda
or
# shred -u [...]
Ubuntu/Kubuntu 8.04 ready for download
If you still didn’t see, is already here:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/8.04/
or you can download DVD iso image from here:
http://www.mirrorservice.org/…/8.04/release/
I am sure that you can find the others mirrors, to download Ubuntu.
Good luck.
A few useful sysctl variables in FreBSD
FreeBSD is my primary choice when I need to install a new server and if I don’t need virtualization (OpenVZ, Linux-VServer, XEN, Vmware, …). If I need to implement a virtualization solution then CentOS is my friend.
Only I would like to point some interesting sysctl variables which you can set on a FreeBSD box:
TCP [...]
Atom feed and Wordpress 2.5
It seems that the last version of Wordpress, 2.5, has some problems in parsing Atom feeds. As you can see on my blog I am also using an atom feed, for shared items from google reader. The solution was to burn a feed with feedburner and to put this feed in wordpress. It seems that [...]
Order and enjoy your Ubuntu Cola
I spent the last week in Leeds, for a conference. Leeds is a quite nice city, I like it. I took some photos, they will be available soon on my flickr page. Below are two photos with Ubuntu Cola. I don’t know if there is something between Ubuntu Linux and Ubuntu Cola, but it [...]
