I’ve been meaning to play around with the SELinux packages in Squeeze for a while now. Over this past weekend I finally got started. Russell Coker maintains these packages and you can find them on his website under the SELinux tag. The Debian package for the policy is quite nice. The post install script even [...]
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 [...]
The last bit of configuration that my laptop required before I’d call it “usable” with the new window manager was related to the function keys. This doesn’t have anything to do with configuring the awesome window manager directly but it does address a few small configurations necessary to provide some functionality that I was used [...]
After whipping up a quick script to kill and restart jackd when my laptop goes into S3 (/etc/pm/sleep.d) I had a revelation: any processes connected to jackd would have to reconnect. This doesn’t happen and sound is just lost. So for jackd to be usable on a laptop they need to support S3 directly and [...]
My last post ended with me describing some troubles getting jackd to wake after my laptop went into S3. I managed to get some debug info out of jack after running it as a dbus service through qjackctl: ERROR: JackAudioDriver::ProcessAsync: read error, skip cycle alsa_driver_xrun_recovery ERROR: ALSA: channel flush for playback failed (File descriptor in [...]
I’ve been a Gnome user for a while now. It’s been good to me but I’m a minimalist and lately it feels like I’ve been spending a lot of time fighting against Gnome. This past week I bought a new SSD for my laptop but instead of just copying my system over to this new [...]
A few weeks back I upgraded my wireless router and added an racoon based IPsec VPN. When I built my first home router / wireless access point a few years ago I did so to get some experience configuring Linux systems and writing firewall rules. I’ve revisited this script a number of times as I’ve [...]
For the past two months my day job has taken over my life. As always, during the height of my insane work schedule my wireless router started acting up. I guess I needed something to break so I had an excuse to take a much needed break from work. I’d pretty much forgotten I even [...]
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 [...]
In my last post I went into the reasons why exporting the network hardware from dom0 to an unprivileged driver domain is good for security. This time the “how” is our focus. The documentation out there isn’t perfect and it could use a bit of updating so expect to see a few edits to the [...]
