Category: FLOSS
Installing IO::Socket::SSL using Strawberry Perl
April 1st, 2009When you try to install Net::SSLeay as dependency of IO::Socket::SSL using Strawberry Perl and you get something like this:
Running install for module 'Net::SSLeay' Running make for F/FL/FLORA/Net-SSLeay-1.35.tar.gz Has already been unwrapped into dir… more »
Debian 5.0 lenny - 1st experience
February 15th, 2009Debian released 5.0 version (aka lenny). You can read announcement here. First upgrade to lenny on testing server went good. No problems at all. Few notes regarding the packages I use: mod-security is not in default repositories due to late fix. Also, th… more »
ASUS EEE - new Xandros repository
January 29th, 2008As you can notice, I built new repository for Xandros ASUS EEE distribution. It has some Croatian specific packages as well as some interesting packages which you cannot find elsewhere. So, for example you can install Keepassx which is Password Manager I… more »
ASUS EEE - few tricks for beginners ;)
January 29th, 2008As ASUS EEE is available in Croatia stores now, I'll give few tips (and no tricks) for beginners with ASUS EEE in Croatia.
Probably you noticed that you cannot select Croatian keyboard layout. What you need to do is edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and find f… more »
Debugging SquashFS and tools
January 29th, 2008Recently, I was playing with squashfs and with its SquashFS LZMA companion. I hit the segmentatin fault while I was building squashfs from ASUS EEE read only image. I'll try to explain my debug process, so people who are not familiar can follow (and lear… more »
Compiling kernel modules for Xandros ASUS EEE
January 28th, 2008As lot of people asked me how I managed to compile kernel modules for Xandros default distribution on ASUS EEE, here's explanation.
First, I copied all files (except /proc, /sys, ...) from ASUS EEE to my laptop. I used tar and netcat for that. After t… more »
Making ASUS EEE more useful
January 23rd, 2008ASUS EEE is becoming more and more popular. As such, there's more and more modifications and support for it. eee.ko module is one of them. eee.ko consists of a kernel module to change the eee's FSB speed, allowing the CPU to run at its full 900Mhz. eee.k… more »
First 24 hours with ASUS EEE
January 13th, 2008ASUS EEE doesn't have Bluetooth by default, but it has bluetooth packages lying around in default installation. So, I plugged in my Bluetooth USB dongle and changed few parameters. After few minutes, I got my bluetooth connection working with my phone, N… more »
ASUS EEE - first impressions
January 13th, 2008Yesterday, we bought ASUS EEE. It's cheap and light subnotebook running Linux (specifically, Xandros distribution). It has Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.Org, Skype, Pidgin/Gaim, Amarok, Smplayer already on his solid state drive.
When we bought it… more »
Bugs found in PuppyLinux 2.17
August 1st, 2007I've been using PuppyLinux for long time on my USB stick. It's very well optimized distro for USB sticks (reduces writes) and it supports filesystem encryption which is essential to me. Recently, PuppyLinux 2.17 was published. I gave 2.17 a try, and this… more »
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