Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 - Debian and more Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:49 Jim Buzbee Introduction It's been nearly two and a half years since I picked up a Linksys NSLU2 on a whim. I found it to be an interesting little Network Attached Storage (NAS) device that gave me the ability to add much-needed disk space to my network. It worked fine, but since there were additional features I wanted, I decided to dig deeper. After playing around with it a bit, I found a cgi-bin bug that allowed me to turn on a hidden telnet daemon. While I was exploring the internals of the box, I thought there might be just a handful of other people interested, but I was wrong. In my earlier articles, I described manually downloading, installing and using a cross- compilation tool-chain, hand-editing source code, unpacking and packing firmware images, etc. My last couple of articles described a safer way to extend the box using the Unslung custom firmware that provided package management so end-users could painlessly install software packages. Related Items:
Part 3: Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft Version 1.0 Author: Falko Timme <ft [at] falkotimme [dot] com> Last edited 02/28/2007 With the release of Microsoft's new Windows operating system (Vista), more and more people are looking for alternatives to Windows for various reasons. This tutorial is the third in a series of articles where I will show people who are willing to switch to Linux how they can set up a Linux desktop (Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft in this article) that fully replaces their Windows desktop, i.e. that has all software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that runs also on older hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. I want to say first that this is not the only way of setting up such a system. There are many ways of achieving this goal but this is the way I take. 1 Preliminary Note Graphics: Internet: Office: Sound & Video: Programming: Other: cd /home/falko/Desktop you must replace falko.
Feisty - From This guide is maintained at the Linux Center of the University of Latvia . Other Versions See this complete list of older and newer versions. If you are using an outdated version of Ubuntu, you should consider updating it to the current version of Ubuntu . To upgrade an outdated version or update your current version, read #Updates and Upgrades . 1 Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) 2 Introduction 2.1 Other Versions 2.2 General Notes 2.3 Are there other *buntu guides? 2.4 Desktop environments 2.4.1 Where to view Ubuntu screenshots / screencast 2.4.2 Where to view Kubuntu screenshots / screencast 2.4.3 How to install KDE (Kubuntu) 2.4.3.1 How to uninstall KDE (Kubuntu) 2.4.4 Where to view Xubuntu screenshots / screencast 2.4.5 How to install XFCE (Xubuntu) 2.4.5.1 How to uninstall Xfce (Xubuntu) 2.4.6 Where to view Ubuntu Studio screenshots 2.4.7 Where to view Ubuntu Enlightenment Window Manager screenshots 2.4.8 How to install FluxBox 2.4.9 How to install Blackbox 2.4.12 How to configure GLSlideshow 2.7.9 Games
Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky Tuesday, November 21, 2006 I'm sure there's a whole team of UI designers, programmers, and testers who worked very hard on the OFF button in Windows Vista, but seriously, is this the best you could come up with? Every time you want to leave your computer, you have to choose between nine, count them, nine options: two icons and seven menu items. On many laptops, there are also four FN+Key combinations to power off, hibernate, sleep, etc. The more choices you give people, the harder it is for them to choose, and the unhappier they'll feel. The fact that you have to choose between nine different ways of turning off your computer every time just on the start menu, not to mention the choice of hitting the physical on/off button or closing the laptop lid, produces just a little bit of unhappiness every time. Can anything be done? If you've spoken to a non-geek recently, you may have noticed that they have no idea what the difference is between "sleep" and "hibernate." Next:
Ubuntu Edgy Upgrade Common Problems With solutions -- Debian Admin We have already discussed how to upgrade ubuntu dapper to edgyeft and some people are complaing after upgrade they had problems related to x server and update problems.I have collected some of the common problems and their solutions from ubuntu forums . I hope this collection will help for some users to fix their upgrade problems. After upgrading if you see the following error Booting ‘ubuntu, kernel 2.5.17-10-386′ root(hd0,0) Filesystem type unkown, partition type 0×7 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-386 root=/dev/evmu/sda3 ro quiet splash Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition Solution To fix that, press ‘e' to enter Edit mode at the time of booting your grub bootloader, and then press ‘e' on the first line (the (hd0,0) one) to edit that. Ubuntu is installed on the very first partition, and sets the root to that... drive, and (hd0,2) means the third partition. x.org log file, typically found in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, may turn up error messages such as: Fatal server error: no screens found or
Optimal Use of Fonts on Linux Avi Alkalay Linux, Open Standards consultant :: IT and Software ArchitectIBM Linux Impact Team :: ibm.com/linux Copyright © 2006 Avi Alkalay, Donovan Rebbechi, Hal Burgiss You can have the coolest desktop widget theme, the most enlightened colors combination, and a very nice background wallpaper. Your desktop still won't look professional, clean, beautiful, and most important, comfortable, without good fonts. It is a common sense nowadays that good fonts are a key element for good desktop usability, because we use to spend hours per day in front of computers, writing documents, dealing with huge spreadsheets, making presentations, browsing and chatting. The font subsystem on Linux evolved a lot in the last years, from an old naming, handling and option of fonts, to the support of True Type, Bistream Vera, etc. 2. Jump to Section 3, “The Easy Steps to Enlighten Your Desktop” if you just want to fix your desktop fonts fast. Fonts are used on the screen and for printing. Table 1. 2.1. 3. 5.
Chapter 16: Ubuntu and Your iPod Although you can use your iPod in Ubuntu, you should remember that support for such devices is still rather new. Because of that, there is likely to be the occasional odd moment while working with your iPod. I have been using mine without problems, but a friend did lose all his data when he managed to freeze his system doing something bizarre. The same thing happened to me on a Mac, so I guess that's just the life of the pod. Anyway, if you do happen to lose all the data on your iPod or somehow corrupt its system, you can just use Apple's iPod Updater while in Windows to bring it back to normal and repopulate its song library from your hard disk. If your iPod already has songs on it that you ripped using iTunes, you will be happy to know that such MP3s pose no problem. For a Linux diehard, however, there is one big problem with regard to encoded audio formats (and it isn't a limitation only in Linux): iPods do not support Ogg Vorbis files. Determining Your iPod's Format
Ubuntu dapper - From This guide is maintained at the Linux Center of the University of Latvia. Please help test and perfect this guide. To edit pages you need to register. Unofficial Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) Starter Guide Ubuntu 6.06 (codenamed Dapper Drake) was released in June 2006. This guide can be discussed at the official UbuntuGuide.org Forum at ubuntuforums.org. Other Versions See this complete list of older and newer versions. General Notes This is an Unofficial Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) Starter Guide. If you are using Kubuntu you don't need to install gedit anymore, because now there's a symbolic link from gedit to kate, so you can use all the commands below with no problems. sudo apt-get install gedit If the "gedit" command (symbolic link) is not working, you could also create it: sudo ln -s /usr/bin/kate /usr/bin/gedit If you are using 64-bit version replace any "i386" with "amd64" Getting Started What is Ubuntu What is new in Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake Videos Repositories To:
What Business Can Learn from Open Source August 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at Oscon 2005.) Lately companies have been paying more attention to open source. Ten years ago there seemed a real danger Microsoft would extend its monopoly to servers. It seems safe to say now that open source has prevented that. A recent survey found 52% of companies are replacing Windows servers with Linux servers. [1] More significant, I think, is which 52% they are. But the biggest thing business has to learn from open source is not about Linux or Firefox, but about the forces that produced them. We may be able to get a fix on these underlying forces by triangulating from open source and blogging. Like open source, blogging is something people do themselves, for free, because they enjoy it. Another thing blogging and open source have in common is the Web. Amateurs I think the most important of the new principles business has to learn is that people work a lot harder on stuff they like. It's not that Microsoft isn't trying. Workplaces