Archive for the 'Linux' Category

Synaptics Multi-Touch Support in Linux

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Wow, I didn’t know that you could enable multi-touch support using the synaptics driver in linux. I really need to try this out on my laptop. Out of the box running ubuntu 8.04 it does the edge scrolling but sometimes that kicks in when I don’t want it to, so being able to [...]

No vpn support on android (yet)

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

After searching the forums and the Internet I’ve ascertained that there is no current support for vpnc on the G1. I don’t know if the ARM processor will have trouble keeping up with IPsec, but now that I’ve done a few test programs my next task will be to investigate building vpnc.

Installing Android Apps On A DEV-1 Phone

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

I may be really dumb, but it took me forever to figure out how to simply get an app installed on a physical phone. When I finally found out the tools to use, I was getting errors like the one below when I tried to actually copy the app over.

$ adb install ~/sandbox/HelloAndroid/bin/HelloAndroid-debug.apk
123 KB/s [...]

Android Me

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

I held off for as long as I could before purchasing an Android phone. Frankly once they offered an unlocked restriction free developer version, it was hard to resist.
Next is to get the build environment working and start tinkering with the OS. Top on my list is figuring out if vpnc can be made [...]

there’s nothing like new hardware

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

There’s really nothing like some new hardware to get the blood pumping. I’ve been converting my sad, old, NFS + LDAP serving cluster over to a fancy new Kerberos + AFS + LDAP + XEN environment. Virtualization is truly awesome, being able to create and reboot hosts at will without concern for the [...]

Configuring Daemontools under Ubuntu (upstart)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

With the moving of ubuntu from the old fashioned init to the modern upstart, the daemontools svscanboot package doesn’t cleanly install. Here’s how to fix it. The daemontools-installer package modifies /etc/inittab to cause the svscan/svscanboot process to launch. With upstart, there is no /etc/inittab, instead it is replaced with a collection of config files in /etc/event.d.

Make Windows Vista More Faster

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Microsoft has published tips on how to make vista run faster and in a nutshell, the tips are:

Run fewer programs (though they have to repeat it SIX times)
Defragment your hard drive (welcome to 1990)
Turn off visual effects (isn’t that what the whole point of vista is?)
Restart your computer regularly
Buy more memory

And if none of that [...]

Shuttle Launches Live in Linux

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

Today the shuttle launched the shuttle Discovery on STS-121. The cool thing, though, was that I was able to easily watch it live, streaming under Linux.
All that I needed to do was go to the NASA TV streaming video page and view the windows media player stream. The stream uses the WMV9 codec [...]

Why IIS on Win32 Fails

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

The pictures to the right from Richard Stiennon’s post on Threat Chaos show the paths of the system calls used by IIS on Win32 and Apache on POSIX to service a single HTTP request. This pictures demonstrates, fundamentally, why IIS on Win32 is simply a bad engineering choice when it comes to security.
Every system [...]

Ubuntu Qmail HOWTO

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Ubuntu used to have the qmail-src package available in the multiverse collection, however due to the lack of attention by whomever monitors the build reports, breezy doesn’t have the package availble to it. However, since the debian package is an all-platform package, one can simply use it to get where you need to go. [...]