Working out of my “home office” these past two weeks I’ve found a few short comings in my setup. While on my first teleconference last week I spent an hour holding my cellphone to my head. Miserable. I never thought I’d miss a land line / speaker phone. Easy problem to solve though, just get [...]
Started with a new employer (Citrix) today. Naturally my first task of setting up a development system was more work than I wanted it to be. Turns out the EliteBook 2560p has Intel 83579LM network hardware and the Debian Squeeze e1000 driver predates it. Using ‘testing’ is always an option but not a very stable [...]
I spent much longer than I’d like to admit moving my mail server today. The Debian exim4 package is very easy to configure and setting up TLS and authentication is a snap with the help of a very good Debian Administration article. Also I’ve had to tweak the address_file transport to support Sieve and the [...]
Most of the work that’s gone into the Debian SELinux policy seems to have has been done on servers. After taking a serious look at the AVCs on my laptop it seems that most of the power management stuff isn’t quite working. It was close though so the patch I had to whip up wasn’t [...]
It’s been four months since I posted on the striking symilarity between the Debian logo and that currently being used by the Catalyst Career Group. At the recommendation of MJ Ray on the debian-legal mailing list I’m following up (a bit late) with a reasonably thorough comparison of the two logos. So here they are [...]
I’ve been traveling a whole bunch for work lately. A month or two ago I was on the road the hotel I was staying in was hosting a job fair that was put on by a company called the Catalyst Career Group. I couldn’t help but notice their logo looked familiar. So after standing on [...]
If you use make-kpkg to build your kernels and you’re running Lenny you may have had problems building 2.6.34 when it came out. With kernel-package version 11.015 I’m getting the following error: The UTS Release version in include/linux/version.h "" does not match current version: "2.6.34" Please correct this I’m sure more recent packages have this [...]
