smartmontools on SATA
Posted by coldtobi | 13 Nov, 2007, 17:31I had an annoying problem with my smartmontools. The startup script kept telling me, that it fails upon starting. Well, this was annoying but not critical.
But now that there is a new smartmontools package upstream, this discovered a bug: After installation, smartmontools barks in its postinst script as it fails to start. (See bugreport)
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NavIT on Debian
Posted by coldtobi | 13 Nov, 2007, 11:25
Short and Quick: I packaged NavIt 0.0.2 for debian, and well, here is the NavIt Debian package:
(update: read on where to get the latest version)
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GCC for the AT90PWM316
Posted by coldtobi | 11 Nov, 2007, 11:17BTW: I uploaded updated versions of my avr-gcc builds as debian packages: The files linked inlcude my patch to support the AT90PWM316*. The patch is already upstrea, and according Jörg Wünsche, it will be applied to the upcoming release of the official toolchain.
As the PWM316 chip is just a great device for lightning. I used the patched gcc already for a commercial project.
The story why I needed to create the patch reads as a WTF, and is therefore noteworthy: The hardware-team accidentially soldered the PWM316 into the circuit, instead of the PWM3B. As time was tough and new hardware not feasible in the projects timeline, I had to get the gcc running...
Well, thats off-topic: Here are the files:
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Opensource Navigational Solution Released: NavIT!
Posted by coldtobi | 6 Nov, 2007, 09:18
NavIT 0.02 has been released!
Despite that the version is only at 0.02, NavIT is quite stable and feature-rich. And the best of all: It is Open Source!
Lets quote from the website about the project:
Navit is a car navigation system with routing engine.
It's modular design is capable of using vector maps of various formats for routing and rendering of the displayed map. It's even possible to use multiple maps at a time.
The GTK+ or SDL user interfaces are designed to work well with touch screen displays. Points of Interest of various formats are displayed on the map.
The current vehicle position is either read from gpsd or directly from NMEA GPS sensors.
The routing engine not only calculates an optimal route to your destination, but also generates directions and even speaks to you using speechd.
Navit currently speaks 8 languages.
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Network Attached Storage
Posted by coldtobi | 14 Oct, 2007, 17:39Last week, at a local groceries discounter, they has an NAS on sale, but were already out of stock at the time I was there.
To be more precise, it was actually an NDAS (<--warning: marketing speech. Read their FAQs for a bigger picture.), so afterall I am not mad that I was too late.
As I was not familiar with N(D)AS, I did some research, and found, that NDAS has some properties which I don't think they are appropiate for a NAS. Others would call this "just cost-optimized".
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Linux klonen mit rsync
Posted by coldtobi | 17 Jun, 2007, 12:28Ich habe mir eine neue -- größere, schnellere, etc -- SATA-Platte geleistet.
Nun ist das bei einem anständigen Betriebsystem kein Grund, dass man dasselbe neu installieren muss.
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Debian reparieren
Posted by coldtobi | 28 May, 2007, 18:12Ich ziehe gerade meine Plate um, und bin auf dabei auf dieses kleine Script gestossen, dass einem vielleicht eine Neuinstallation sparen kann, wenn man wichtige Dateien gelöscht hat, oder der dpkg cache zerschossen ist.
Die originale Quelle existiert leider nicht mehr, deshalb kein Link sondern "verbatim".
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