Problem: IEMGD_HEAD_Linux/common/drm/emgd/display/pi/cmn/pi.c:1: error: stray ‘\357’ in program This is caused by “invalid” characters in the code, specifically I encountered this while trying to compile the Intel EMGD driver for my EEEPC’s graphics card. Thanks to the helpful folks over here, there’s a solution: cd IEMGD_HEAD_Linux/common/drm/emgd/display/pi/cmn cat -v pi.c | awk ‘{if(NR>1) print $0}’ > tmp […]
I have no idea how many blank CD’s I’ve seen wasted on having a file system with a single .iso file on them. Then, I found this page: http://iso.snoekonline.com/iso.htm It tells you how to burn an image with basically any Windows-based software out there. If someone runs Linux, I assume they can figure it out […]
Found this somewhere. Works for me. Section “ServerLayout” Identifier “BodhiZazen’s KVM xorg.conf” Screen 0 “Screen0” 0 0 InputDevice “Mouse0” “CorePointer” InputDevice “Keyboard0” “CoreKeyboard” EndSection Section “Module” Load “record” Load “dri” Load “extmod” Load “glx” Load “dbe” Load “dri2” EndSection Section “InputDevice” Identifier “Keyboard0” Driver “kbd” EndSection Section “InputDevice” Identifier “Mouse0” Driver “vmmouse” Option “Protocol” “SysMouse” […]
Several programs, like “timelimit” and “timeout”, exist to prevent a process from running for too long. However, if you want to do this on a box where neither is installed, there’s a way to do so with bash alone. Based on the original script I found at pixelbeat.org… #!/bin/sh # Execute a command with a […]
Accidentally stumbled across the “Debian Cheat Sheet” at http://carlo17.home.xs4all.nl/howto/debian.html (now dead – see pdf below) Finally some documentation on why the heck pinning with “Package: *” and “Package: mypackage” doesn’t mix well, and other useful knowledge. In case the link goes dead, here’s a PDF: debian_cheat_sheet.pdf
This was blatantly stolen from technovelty, kept here because I hate it when my bookmarks die. For some reason, people seem to get this quite wrong a lot of the time. Certainly one should not be playing with symbols that start with __ unless you really know what you’re doing with them. ianw@lime:~/tmp/override$ cat override.c […]
I found these “misuse levels” over at technovelty, which they originally ripped from Rusty Russel’s Bleeding Edge Page, which is a page you should definitely check out if you haven’t. Anyway, I found these “misuse levels” both hilarious to read and at the same time somewhat concerning, as I started thinking “Where does my code […]
If you have a harddrive password (most laptops do this) or full disk encryption, you might not feel the need for an additional login after your system boots. On most Debian-based systems, TTY’s 1 through 6 are available after boot, while TTY 7 is used for Xorg. Therefore, I like to put my auto-login TTY […]
rdesktop on Linux will give this warning message when connecting to a Windows machine which has not been configured for 24-bit color RDP connections. This has, amongst other things, the effect of showing some horrible, jaggy desktop icons. See the pictures on the right for reference. On Vista, Windows 7 and later (?), the solution […]
Use RegEdit (start->run->”regedit”) to go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\ Add, if one does not exist, a key called “SpecialAccounts” Under that, add a key called “UserList” Create new DWORD (32-bit) keys for each user you want to hide in your newly formed HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\Userlist Make the name of each DWORD the EXACT username you want to […]