Category Archives: Free Software/Open Source
Happy 30th, GNU!
RMS launched the GNU project on September 27th, 1983. MIT hackers generously lent us the use of the Green building tonight. It needs some of its pixels repaired, though!
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at the White House
I visited the White House last week to present a poster on Arvados.org during a Champions of Change event about Open Science. There are more photos on Flickr.
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microsoft discovers remote attestation
Via slashdot: Microsoft’s corporate VP for trustworthy computing – Scott Charney – has published a position paper that boils down to remote attestation: let ISPs cut off internet access for computers that are not deemed free of malware. So… how … Continue reading
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CF iPod conversion to FAT32
In order to install Rockbox on an iPod, it needs to be formatted in FAT32, not HFS+. The relevant wiki page over at the Rockbox site suggest either connecting the iPod to an iTunes install on Windows, or using one … Continue reading
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DRAC5 source code available for download
Dell’s DRAC5 is based on free software. The source has been rumored to be available but hard to find – until today, when this helpful e-mail popped up on the linux-poweredge list. Here’s the link to an ISO with the … Continue reading
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Jaunty’s stabilizing
A quick update on some of the bugs reported in my previous post bugs, bugs, bugs: upgrading to jaunty jackalope. The two most serious problems were atrocious Intel video performance, and ongoing sound issues. Thankfully, the Intel issues have been … Continue reading
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Tagged intel, intelvideo, jauntyjackalope, karmickoala, ubuntu
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bugs, bugs, bugs: upgrading to jaunty jackalope
I upgraded my laptop to Jaunty Jackalope. Here’s the list of issues (and solutions) I’ve run into: 1. Tor is not packaged anymore, apparently there is no Ubuntu maintainer. Upstream provides Ubuntu packages, but they have no jaunty package yet. … Continue reading
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Drupal: disable caching for an entire module
I have a legacy php application that had to be integrated into a Drupal site, so I wrapped it in a simple drupal module. The code needs to run for anonymous users. The wrapping worked fine, but the Drupal cache … Continue reading
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Asterisk vs. Telemarketer: 1 – 0
We’ve been getting telephone spam from Affiliated Mortgage Protection Affiliated Mortgage Protection 292 Terminal Ave W, Clark, NJ- 7066. (732)-499-0700 We answered five of their calls the past three weeks, and each time asked them to stop calling. Apparently, they … Continue reading
Dell’s GNU/Linux support leaves to be desired
So I have a poweredge 2800 with some hardware issues (voltage sensors on the riser card seeing things they should not…). The Dell support folks wanted me to run a DSET report with this tool http://support.euro.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R155882&formatcnt=2&libid=0&fileid=208066 Man – what a … Continue reading
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