Making bzrweb work again

July 11, 2007 - 1 min read

During the past weekend and the last couple of evenings I’ve been studying the Python code in bzrweb — which I’ve been using for online repository browsing. It broke sometime last year due to not keeping up with the development of bzr. Yesterday I got it working again! Browse: http://vmlinux.org/jocke/bzr/ Branch: bzr branch http://vmlinux.org/jocke/bzr/bzrweb Having only programmed Python very little earlier I must say that it’s really easy to get in to.

Buggy Gnome Main Menu

July 7, 2007 - 1 min read

I’ve been living with the new Gnome Main Menu for a while now. Like many others I run Ubuntu these days and I’ve found the version in Feisty Fawn to be extremely slow and buggy. I tried manually installing (dpkg -i) the latest version in Gutsy, but it had too many dependencies. So I decided to try and backport it, and it worked! I haven’t set up any repository, so just download the below two .

VMWare Kernel Modules for Your New Kernel

March 25, 2007 - 1 min read

My recent post on building Debian kernels misses a subtle but useful point. Namely that of building Debian kernel modules alongside your new kernel. I wanted to run a new kernel with the Ubuntu vmware-player-kernel-source package. I was fumbling around wanting to use module-assistant to do this for me when I stumbled upon on the solution, presented so eloquently by my friend Albert Veli. This gives us a small update to the previous post:

HowTo: Building Debian/Ubuntu Kernels

February 3, 2007 - 1 min read

I have been over this topic so many times now, strangely enough I’ve managed to make things more complicated than they need to be. It’s really this simple: $ wget ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/kernels/v2.6/linux-2.6.19.2.tar.bz2 $ tar xfj linux-2.6.19.2.tar.bz2 $ cd linux-2.6.19.2/ $ zcat /proc/config.gz >.config $ make menuconfig [Tweak to your hearts desire] $ fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image $ dpkg -i ../linux-image-2.6.19.2_2.6.19.2-10.00.Custom_i386.deb [DONE!] You may, of course, need to tweak the file /etc/kernel-pkg.conf, but there are man pages for that.

Moved

February 3, 2007 - 1 min read

Yep, we finally did it, we bought ourselves a house. Last year in October we moved from our small three-room flat in central Västerås to the new house in Skultuna. Everything went really fast from finding it up for sale, deciding on it down to getting a loan and moving in. Worst part of it all was getting a decent broadband connection. We actually moved from a 100 Mbps dedicated copper line to a 24/2 Mbps ADSL line.

Top Ten UNIX Shell Commands

September 23, 2006 - 2 mins read

Current trend is to run the following one-liner from IBM. I’m usually logged in to the following three systems, with very different results. vmlinux.org $ history |awk '{print $2}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr|head -10 144 ls 61 cd 58 sudo 29 less 23 emacs 19 bzr 16 vim 11 rm 10 wget 10 mv My personal life. Not much different from my professional dito. Most visible difference maybe is my use of bzr instead of svn.

Aaaah, the fish got a facelift! :)

August 13, 2006 - 1 min read

This is just great! Wanda the fortune telling fish of the Gnome desktop got herself a face lift. Take a look at this: Add her new look to your applet by copying the file to /usr/share/gnome/panel/pixmaps/. Select it in the applet preferences and use 8 frames and 0.3 seconds per frame.

Test posting using blosxom

August 5, 2006 - 1 min read

First try to consolidate on using an already working implementation of a blog script rather than writing my own. I’m trying out Blosxom, which is somewhat overkill for my needs. I actually wrote up a simple Perl script a couple of weeks ago that did what I wanted, oh well, what remains now is to do some Emacs hacks to smooth things over a bit.

Besiktning

July 24, 2006 - 1 min read

Yes, bilen gick igenom besiktningen!

Atari ST(E) Emulation with Steem

July 23, 2006 - 1 min read

This is is really great! Today, on my 32nd birthday I found a really golden piece of software - Steem - even though it’s not free software, it has a Linux port which runs almost all of my alltime Atari ST classics: Thrust, Virus, Speedball I & II, Xenon I & II, Great Giana Sisters, The Union Demo, The “Oh crikey what a scorcer” demo, Nebulus and lots more! Since today is also my birthday I received a gift.