A friend of mine forwarded a mail from the LOPSA mailing list about tuning VMs running on KVM/libvirtd to make them more responsive. As I use puppet to manage my own VMs, a file and a new class later, I have edited /etc/default/grub to add elevator=deadline to the options, then run update-grub. You will obviously […]
I think i’ve made enough posts by now to let you know that I own a Galaxy S from Samsung which hosts Android as an operating system. This is with quite some joy that I’d like to report a ROM available on SamFirmware where you will be able to grab 2.2.1 (current Froyo version was […]
Sure, I might be extrapolating that a bit but it does help pointing out some issues. As I am readying more zones to work with DNSSEC, I am in the process of making sure it works accordingly. I suggest you make your way to the DNSSEC software page if you are interested. One of these […]
After my last upgrade, I realised that my GPS was broken. I eventually found a fix using this page. In short, if it happens to you, type *#*#3214789650#*#* then go to SUPL / CP Settings and select FQDN Type / AUTO Config. Reboot the phone and that should be it. My other settings were identical […]
A friend of mine recently reviewed the Android Samsung Galaxy S vs the iPhone. I have a few points I wish to make about this 🙂 I stayed on stock Samsung Android 2.1 (Eclair) for a month. Then gradually switched to leaked Samsung firmware based on Froyo (2.2) up to the latest version (XXJPO). At […]
A chap at work made me discover a neat tool today, passook which allows you to create “readable” passwords based on some preferences. On Debian/Ubuntu, you will need to install that package dictionaries-common.
I meant to write a quick note about this quite some time ago but only got around it today. You will be needing Bind 9.7+ for this as it includes all the cool DNSSEC tools you need. If you are still wondering what DNSSEC is, i suggest your start with this site. So DNSSEC in […]
I am the happy owner of this this little cutie. I however recently discovered that it doesn’t play nice with the USB2 module (ehci-hcd) and since this is compiled directly in the kernel, you cannot just unload the module… Fortunately, there is a solution. I could compile it on this ARM device but I have […]
A friend of mine stepped onto a nice Bash guide for developers, i feel the need to share as this is fairly good 🙂
I have such a file which happened to be broken. I looked around the web and found various methods but most of them involving Windows. Until I stepped on a very cool project called meteorite. It fixed my file in a matter of minutes (I have a core i7 processor so it’s fairly fast…). I […]