Add the following kernel boot option to the kernel line in grub’s menu.lst and reboot ( I’m not sure which one does the trick ):
loop.max_part=63 max_part=63
Create a sparse disk image file ( 40 GB reserved, 0 bytes on disk )
dd if=/dev/zero of=fs.image bs=1024 seek=40000000 count=0
Initialize a new loop device ( /dev/loop0 )
losetup -f fs.image
Create a [...]
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In Gnome it is possible to have a gnome-panel for each monitor. This is very useful. One can create a new gnome-panel by pressing right-click on a existing gnome-panel ( make sure that when the entire gnome-panel space is filled with applets and programs you temporarily remove some applets or close some programs ). Click [...]
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Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
Since VMWare Server 2 everything is administrated from a webinterface. This works nice and looks nice. Unfortunately I could not open the Console to the Guest OS. Starting and stopping the Guest OS no problem, but no graphical console. When opening the console in the webinterface, a plugin must be installed in firefox. This is [...]
I created a very nice project which turns an OpenWRT supported router into an embedded device running a full Debian ARM GNU/Linux distribution instead of the default small Busybox/uLibc based OpenWRT distribution. I called the project DebWRT. It took me a lot of time to make all the pieces work together.
I tested everything on an [...]
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Finally, it’s working. Mounting the iPhone in Linux over USB. No stupid (ADHOC) wireless connection is required. It also works on non-jailbrroken iPhones. Though, the developers still say that only “developers” should use it. Of course there is still a problem accessing the Media iTunes library on the iPhone – the key Apple uses on [...]
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