For an internal project at work I have been thinking about more how to generate RPMs out of our CI. I wanted to have them produced as artifacts of the build so I can test how if they can be installed and properly working with some smoketests. Since we are using Docker for most of the things in our CI, I have been thinking about more about how to do that with docker images and RPM. ...
If you want to boot backtrack4 from time to time on your Linux desktop/laptop but don’t want to carry it on a USB drive (or CDROM) on you then this guide may help. I am using Debian unstable on my laptop but I am sure you can adapt it to anything you want. I am using another partition (/dev/sda6) as my backtrack partition but it’s possible to copy the full thing in / as well on your main partition. ...
Like a lot of people I have my irssi on a server in a screen. This has been working great so far but my only concerns are the notifications on the desktop when something happening. Over the time I have found some different solution with mitigated results for me : Use fanotify script with the libnotify-bin and SSH like mentioned here. Setup your irssi (or other) as irc proxy bouncer and connect with your desktop client (like xchat) to get notification. ...
So you have a shiny new linux-2.6.32 kernel installed but your VMPlayer does not work anymore since the vmnet module does not compile by throwing this error : CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/vnetEvent.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/vnetUserListener.o /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/vnetUserListener.c: In function ‘VNetUserListenerEventHandler’: /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/vnetUserListener.c:240: error: ‘TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE’ undeclared (first use in this function) /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/vnetUserListener.c:240: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/vnetUserListener.c:240: error: for each function it appears in.) /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/vnetUserListener.c: In function ‘VNetUserListenerRead’: /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/vnetUserListener.c:282: error: ‘TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE’ undeclared (first use in this function) /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/vnetUserListener.c:282: error: implicit declaration of function ‘signal_pending’ /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/vnetUserListener.c:282: error: implicit declaration of function ‘schedule’ make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only/vnetUserListener.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmnet-only] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/temp/linux-2.6.32’ make: *** [vmnet.ko] Error 2 ...
I have this nice Toshiba TV which is connected to a small Linux box which act as a media player. I have been some issue lately the things works fine under the 1920x1800 resolution most of the time. But once in a while I get a blank screen and the nvidia driver telling me this : (II) Dec 03 17:00:19 NVIDIA(0): “nvidia-auto-select” (II) Dec 03 17:00:19 NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 640 x 480 (WW) Dec 03 17:00:19 NVIDIA(0): Unable to get display device CRT-0’s EDID; cannot compute DPI (WW) Dec 03 17:00:19 NVIDIA(0): from CRT-0’s EDID. (==) Dec 03 17:00:19 NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (75, 75); computed from built-in default (==) Dec 03 17:00:19 NVIDIA(0): Enabling 32-bit ARGB GLX visuals. (–) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp ...
Spent a bit of time to configure my Nokia mobile to teethering wih my Linux and T-Mobile. Here is some steps that may help the others : If you don’t have that blue bluetooth led switched on on your Dell Latitude D630 Laptop you have to enable it. I haven’t find any way to do that via the Linux Kernel module but with Windows under Vmware Player (3.0) enabling Bluetooth and installing the driver (manually not via the setup.exe) enabled bluetooth. Switched on bluetooth on the Phone and attached to the laptop via gnome bluetooth applet thingy. Get my phone device number from hcitool scan. And did this (as root) : cat </etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf ...