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Installing r8168 driver in 2.6.24
by lunarg on May 1st 2008, at 14:22
Currently, the Realtek R8168 driver does not work in a 2.6.24 kernel because of changes in the kernel structures. I found a patch on the Ubuntu Forums which adjusts the driver source so it can compile for a 2.6.24 kernel. The patch was written for 8.005.00, but I verified it working for 8.006.00 (latest version at time of writing). The patch is attached.

Download driver here.Got the patch from here, but for your convenience, I've attached it to this article too.Note that these instructions are also found on the page at Ubuntu Forums

After unpacking the driver, copy the patch in ./r8168-8.006  ...
 
When OS'es can speak...
by lunarg on April 22nd 2008, at 22:40

What would an OS says or think when copying files - let's say, about 100MB of MP3 - to an SD card?

DOS

What's an SD card?

Linux (bash)

....
....
Done.

Windows XP

Alright. Wait around a bit, and it'll be done. Don't ask me when, because I'm terrible at guessing.

Windows Vista

What? Me? Do you have any idea what you're asking of me? It requires careful planning: first see whether it all fits on your card, then calculating the time, and even then, I'm not sure if I'll do it. Maybe you should check back tomorrow; maybe I've gotten around to it by then, just maybe...

 
Virtualbox: set up port forwarding when using NAT
by lunarg on April 17th 2008, at 12:56
If you're using NAT for networking with your VMs, you need to use port forwarding if you want to access a VM from the outside network. This is a quick and dirty howto on how to do this in linux.

Fire up a terminal, and enter these commands:

VBoxManage setextradata nvm3 "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/ssh/HostPort" 28080VBoxManage setextradata nvm3 "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/ssh/GuestPort" 28080VBoxManage setextradata nvm3 "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/ssh/Protocol" TCP

In the sample above, I'm forwarding port 2  ...
 
Soaring camp 2008 @ Kiewit, Hasselt
by lunarg on April 9th 2008, at 23:43
This summer, Albatros (the soaring club I'm flying at), is organizing a soaring flight camp. This camp is for both people that haven't flown yet, but would like to experience something totally different, as well as for the more experienced pilots, who which to further hone their skills.

The camp takes place from 14th of July 'til 21st of July. Registration is required.



More information and registration: http://www.zweefvliegen-hasselt.be/

If you're not interested, but know someone who might, please refer them to the website. Sympathisers can download the PDF (contains  ...
 
How to keep your inbox empty...
by lunarg on April 8th 2008, at 09:18

Got a link to this article about best practices on keeping your inbox as empty as possible. Very useful for those that get a lot of mail at work:

http://www.43folders.com/2007/07/25/merlins-inbox-zero-talk

Additional comments:
http://www.43folders.com/izero

 
Color brown copyrighted by UPS?
by lunarg on March 26th 2008, at 13:50

At the bottom of a confirmation mail from UPS, I saw this:

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Copyright (c) 2008 United Parcel Service of America, Inc. UPS, het UPS
beeldmerk en de kleur bruin zijn merken van United Parcel Service of America.

Literally translated it says: the UPS logo and the color brown are trademarks of United Parcel Service of America.

Does this mean we can't use the color brown anymore without infringing this trademark?

 
[Gentoo] No module named collections error with portage
by lunarg on March 26th 2008, at 13:17
Had an issue on my PC at work with a corrupt reiser4 filesystem (still no clue as to why). I managed to repair the FS using RiP-Linux, but not without some data loss. After reviewing lost+found, I found most files related to some HTML cache of Konqueror, but fsck.reiser4 complained about a file that could not be recovered.
After awhile, I tried running emerge to install some new package, and there it was: a broken portage...

The error I got:

!!! Failed to complete portage imports. There are internal modules for !!! portage and failure here indicates that you have a problem with your&nbs  ...
 
Vista: printing to shared network printers
by lunarg on March 13th 2008, at 11:30
When printing from a Vista computer to a shared computer, you notice the following:

Printing takes a long time to begin.Opening the Print dialog (e.g. in Word) takes a long time.Selecting printers in the Print dialog is slow.The real reason is unknown, but Vista seems to have a problem with excessive querying of the printer. Along with the usual slowdowns of network traffic, this causes serious slowdowns.

The trick is to have Vista believe it is dealing with a local printer, rather than a shared printer. This is done by specifying a Local printer port, pointing to the share, then configure t  ...
 
Reiser4 sources still available...
by lunarg on March 6th 2008, at 10:36

Namesys, the commercial developer of the Reiser4 filesystem, still has its website down. However, the source code and development is still going on, and can be retrieved at:

http://chichkin_i.zelnet.ru/namesys/

A good thing, because it would be a shame to lose such a good filesystem...

 
The LiveCD List
by lunarg on March 5th 2008, at 09:29

A collegue sent me this link. It's a list of most (if not, all) LiveCDs currently available, with links to their respective websites. Additionally, they have been classified according to functionality.

http://www.livecdlist.com/

 
Winter @ Lozerheide
by lunarg on February 17th 2008, at 15:12
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[MyHW] Ayanami
by lunarg on January 27th 2008, at 22:45
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Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL
by lunarg on January 18th 2008, at 13:03
 
Far Cry 2...
by lunarg on January 16th 2008, at 19:20
"Aaaah, the story continues..."

I was browsing through the future releases section of my favourite online shop for games and DVDs (http://www.mediadis.com/), and saw most pleasingly, the announcement of Far Cry 2. "Neat!", I thought, "Ubisoft and Crytek are gonna make a sequel of the very first Far Cry."
A quick google led me to the official site.

The happy feeling I got didn't last long though... After reading the features on the key features page, I was quickly disappointed by a lot of things.

First of, despite their Far Cry® 2, the true sequel to the award-winning PC game (lite  ...
 
[MyHW] Sakura
by lunarg on January 10th 2008, at 19:52
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Network Solutions steals domain ideas
by lunarg on January 9th 2008, at 22:11
 
Website moved (again)
by lunarg on December 28th 2007, at 21:46

Just moved the website again. This time it's not a physical move of the server, but to another server altogether. It should have a bit of better performance than the old one.
If you happen to find any bugs because of this move, please let me know.

 
nVIDIA in Vista
by lunarg on December 28th 2007, at 21:46

For all nVIDIA users, I suggest installing the hotfixes recommended by nVIDIA: link.

If you have SLI, first install KB936710 (that's hotfix 2 on the nVIDIA page).

Most importantly, install KB940105 (hotfix 1).

And finally, there are KB938194 (hotfix 3), and KB938979 (hotfix 4).

 
Notes about latest ATI linux driver
by lunarg on December 28th 2007, at 17:35
This article contains some notes about the latest 7-12 ATI linux drivers. Biggest change in versions after 8.40 (aside of the new versioning scheme), is the support for Composite and AIGLX extensions, and the supposedly improved 3D performance. Unfortunately for some, support is currently limited to newer Radeon cards only.
Installation on my X700 was not entirely straight-forward, though.

Installation took place on my laptop which has a X700 on-board, but the driver only worked properly after some tweaking of xorg.conf...

Since I'm using Gentoo, installation of the latest driver was fairly   ...
 
Winter shots
by lunarg on December 22nd 2007, at 23:53
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