I just upgraded to linux 2.6.14, which seems to work fine here. Finally, the ipw2200 driver got integrated, so I don’t have the possibility to forget it anymore :) In Linux 2.6.14 though, developers have decided to finally remove verify_area(), which was deprecated since a while and superceded by access_ok(). This has the drawback of…
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Ubuntu breezy rocks.
I upgraded my laptop from Ubuntu Hoary to Breezy wednesday evening, just before the release, using apt-get dist-upgrade. Everything went fine, not a single problem arose. Nice! The new Ubuntu makes one more (big) step towards the « Just Works » paradigm, and it impresses me a lot. Today I upgraded my computer at work, from Mandriva…
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Optimised software
Wow. First time since I have my new 1.5GHz laptop, with 512MB of RAM and a 24x CD/DVD drive, that I try to rip one of my CDs to mp3: Beautiful ! And no, it’s not a DMA problem: [colin@jack ~]$ sudo hdparm /dev/cdrom Password: /dev/cdrom: IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma…
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Router woes
Yesterday evening I started to replace my router, which is an old Sun IPX. Its hard disk was beginning to make horrible noises, a bit like a chainsaw grinding on a steel plate. So, I shut it down after having grabbed the routing scripts, removed the second network card – AUI connector -, plugged it…
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Spamassassin is well-trained.
Various french news sites report that Nicolas Sarkozy (french minister and head of the right-wing UMP party) is in the process of spamming french citizens with his crap propaganda. Strangely enough, I didn’t get his mail, although my mail address is probably in every spammer’s database… So I found a copy of the spam on…
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