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...
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)...
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...
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....