RTFM, where?
Recently a buddy on msn asked me a linux question, he just started linux so he had some problems getting stuff done. He downloaded an installer, he said, a .run, but he doesn’t know how to execute it....
View Article(auto)mounting removable media as user
I’ve always been bothered by the fact that you need to be root to mount anything (like an usb stick). It can be solved a bit by setting up udev rules and putting a specific device in /etc/fstab, but...
View Articleati-drivers-8.33.6 for Gentoo
This is a slightly adjusted 25.3 ebuild that will give you the 8.33.6 ati-drivers for Gentoo. Yes, it’s dirty. They aren’t in the main tree yet because they are considered broken, although it works...
View ArticleReiser4 for linux 2.6.20
reiser4-for-2.6.20-0.patch.gz Big fat warning, when hibernating using suspend2 it seems to corrupt some memory here and there. So don’t hibernate.
View ArticleThe Filesystem Failed. Part I: introduction
The Filesystem (I’ll consider the Linux VFS as an example) has failed: Database storage is implemented on top of the Filesystem, because the Filesystem is incapable of serving the needs of relational...
View ArticleC&C 3 on Linux
I’ve got Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars running on my Gentoo Linux installation with wine 0.9.34 by following the instructions here. I had to first install it on windows though, and copy the...
View ArticleXgl with RandR 1.3 and Ati
You have to add Option "DesktopSetup" "single" to your ati’s Device section in xorg.conf otherwise Xgl will think you’ve got two screens if you’ve got two adapters even if you just use one (which is...
View ArticleJava crashing on xcb_xlib_unlock.
When Java applications crash on linux with xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed you should upgrade to libxcb-1.1 and add LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK=1 to the environment.
View ArticleInterrupting a select without a timeout
select is a POSIX syscall which allows you to wait on several different filedescriptors (including sockets) for the event that they won’t block on write; won’t block or read or are in error. This...
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