Thecus N2100: Testing kernels
Posted by coldtobi | 1 Jul, 2009, 23:40Some time ago, I wrote how to test a kernel on the Thecus (here).
As I did not update the kernel for some time, I decided to update to 2.6.30. As usual, I wanted to try it before flasing it permanently. To enforce this, I do not have the package "flash-kernel" installed. But unfortunatly, this time the testing method did not work or the kernel did not boot...
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Stopp?
Posted by coldtobi | 22 Jun, 2009, 19:13The stopp sign is to show protest against the latest censorship laws passed the Bundstags this week.
The law claims honerable goals. But the at the same time it is unsuitable to reach its goal. In medicine, you would call it placebo.
The only goal is might acheive is, that it will open Pandora's box of censorship.
The maxime must be "deletion over blocking".
That this fear is not fiction showed the comments from some politicans, demanding that the law also should be applied to other topics as well: killer games and gambling. At that point, only some hours have passed.
By the way, the are ignoring more than 130000 citiziten daring vote for the fears in the most successful (online) petition forever.
By the way -- the stopp sign will only appear every five days. If you want to see it again, just delete all cookis of this domain, or open it in another (brand) of browser.
Further Reading:
A English article covering all that:
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/06/19/germany-builds-infrastructure-to-block-the-internet/
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Solarpowerlog released
Posted by coldtobi | 16 Jun, 2009, 21:12Yesterday I made my initial release for solarpowerlog. Solarpowerlog is an application designed to keep track about photovoltaic systems.
It is desigend as an framework to be as much extenbile as possible.
Currently it does support to connect to sputnik engineering "Solarmax" Inverters over TCP/IP, but the framework is designed to be easily expanded to support other types of inverters too.
So here are some links for the interested:
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Libucommon for debian
Posted by coldtobi | 11 Jun, 2009, 22:00During my recent programming on solarpowerlog, I discovered that the Lib Common C++ seems to have some bugs, at least in the TCPStream class. (bugreport)
So I decided to check its supposed succeedor. But this one is not packged for debian.... (RFP pending)
Short stort: Here it is.
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Mini trick: Don't show printers in samba shares
Posted by coldtobi | 19 May, 2009, 22:24To help Windows understanding, that your local samba server does not support a printer, add to your smb.conf in the [global] section
disable spoolss = yes
Reload samba, add it will vanish ;-)
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Nominations for Community Open Source Awards are open!
Posted by coldtobi | 17 May, 2009, 09:27I think "NAVIT" is a break-through project that should be nominated for the award:
So I did for:
- NavIt for Best Project
- NavIt for Most Likely to Change the Way You Do Everything
If you share this opinion, please feel free to click that button!
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A Recent Eclipse On Debian
Posted by coldtobi | 9 May, 2009, 13:58Eclipse is WAY outdated on debian. Even the unstable release ships a basically unmodified version since 3 years.
So today I decided to remove the ancient version -- which did not start anyway -- and try the new nice release from eclipse.org:
And, hey... It works like a charm. The only downside is, that it will run in a local directory in your home directory. But that could be fixed my installing in /opt and including it into the default path.
