So, Sony/BMG released some audio CDs with a new DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) system to prevent their copy. The problem is that this DRM system comes in the form of a rootkit (a piece of software that is used to take control of a computer, that is: a pirate tool), and this has been widely…
16/11/2005 Lire la suite...-
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Ubuntu packages
I finally got around to upload precompiled packages for Ubuntu Breezy. Users of this (great) distribution can just add the following to their /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://claws.sylpheed.org/ubuntu/breezy/ ./ There are packages for libetpan-0.39 (libetpan3) and sylpheed-claws-1.9.99 (sylpheed-claws-gtk2). Enjoy!…
03/11/2005 Lire la suite... -
fglrx: Unknown symbol verify_area
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In Linux 2.6.14 though, developers have decided to finally remove verify_area(), which was deprecated since a while and superceded by access_ok().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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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…
06/10/2005 Lire la suite...
