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Vodafone Mobile Connect for Linux

If you have a Vodafone Internet Key and you don’t want to get crazy configuring it, use this really fine package: Vodafone Mobile Connect from Betavine Forge, a Vodafone Group R&D Lab.

It has nice features like:

statistics about transferred bytes (rx/tx)
sending SMS
choosing your preferred network settings (gprs, umts, preferred)
nice Python GUI
automatic detection of your Internet Key
it [...]

Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 on HP EliteBook 8530p - All is fine!

After reading this interesting post on Phoronix about the great increase of performance between ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10, I finally convinced myself to make the upgrade.
My first concern was about the ATI driver, which gave me some trouble with 9.04.
Anyway after a good backup, I started the upgrade, and in almost 2 hours I was [...]

Online LUN expansion and partition resizing without reboot under Linux

If you are in the need of expanding the LUN where your Linux is installed without rebooting the server, then may be that here you can find the right answer. Your Linux must be sufficiently recent to support features like LVM version 2, ext3 on-line resizing and so on.

My setup in tihs test is the [...]

Shiretoko IS Firefox, it’s only a User Agent issue

On my Ubunty Jaunty I’ve started to use the latest Firefox build using this PPA:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
but the Ubuntu Mozilla Team has decided to rebrand it as Shiretoko, and this seems to break some sites which relies on the User Agent string. Using the User Agent Switcher add-on for Shiretoko, ops… Firefox, is a [...]

Testing Drivel

This is a test post using Drivel.

Does it work?

((enjoy))

ATI Linux Proprietary Driver – Catalyst 9.8 RELEASED

It is available for download here (64 bit platform).

Updated instructions for Ubuntu installation are as always here.

((enjoy))

Root exploit for Linux Kernel in the Tun Interface

Brad Spengler, the developer behind the Grsecurity project, has published an exploit for a vulnerability in the Tun interface in Linux kernel 2.6.30 and 2.6.18, which can be exploited by attackers to obtain root privileges.

The fix is available for kernel 2.6.30.2, see the patch here.

Now the real question is: is it a GCC issue (the [...]

Ubuntu Jaunty on HP EliteBook 8530p – All Issues Solved!

All the issues described in my previous post about Ubuntu Jaunty (64 bit) upgrade have been solved! Yeppa!

ATI Video Card – WORKS. The ATI Catalyst driver 9.6 and 9.5 work fine. You can read more about it here. Download the source of the driver from the ATI site and follow the instructions for building the [...]

Upgrading from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 on my HP EliteBook 8530p

Here is a report of my upgrade from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 on my HP EliteBook 8530p (model number FU617AW).

The upgrade process went smooth in almost 1 hour of time. There were about 1200 packages to upgrade for about 900MB of download.

Here is a quick report about problems encountered after reboot:

ATI Video Card NOT WORKING. [...]

SVN LDAP Authentication on Apache

Thanks to this link I’ve successfully implemented the LDAP Authentication against a Microsoft Active Directory LDAP for Subversion Access via Apache2.

Thanks to the power and flexibility of Apache the configuration is really straightforward.

Install and configure Apache to serve the URL of the repository you want, for example https://svn.mydomain.com/ (SSL is preferable to clear text http).

Enable [...]

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