THE SERIAL PORT on my Fedora 15 install, mysteriously refused to be accessed. I discovered that when inserting a USB-to-Serial device, GNU screen would refuse to access the created device /dev/ttyUSB0. » screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 [screen is terminating] Since I could use screen for serial access as root, and because Read more…
I’VE BOUGHT A copy of the game Sacred Gold in an edition that is ported to Linux. This would be very exiting… if it didn’t segfault every time I start it :-( $ sacred sacred 1.0.1, built for i386 Segmentation Fault: I dont believe in dragons! oh… This is a Read more…
THE MENU IN GVim suddenly disappeared?! I did not provoke this by making changes in any .vimrc, .gvimrc or in any files in the .vim directory. The menu was just gone after a boot when GVim auto-loaded the documents open before the reboot. The system is Kubuntu 8.04 and vim-gnome. Read more…
MICROSOFT WORD 2007 was in todays pool of software upgrades at work. Our previous edition of Word was the 2003 edition, and I must say that the UI and MMI has been changed to a whole new concept. It looks fine and all. And its actually pretty easy to navigate Read more…
LIBERATED AT LAST. No more torment and self-punishment of using Mac OS X. I finally caved and wiped the Apple operating system from my Macbook and installed Debian and KDE 4. Sweet. For a long time I’ve been reluctant to wipe the Mac OS X. I wouldn’t just give up Read more…
HAVING GROWN UP using Norton Commander for DOS, Total Commander on Windows and Midnight Commander and Krusader on Linux, its hard, if not impossible, to do work without a proper Norton Commander clone. This is true, especially on Mac OS. The standard file tools in Mac OS X are useless Read more…
YAST MAY BE a powerful tool, but sometimes Suse and OpenSuse still manage to screw up their configuration so not even Yast can rectified the situation. We use Suse and OpenSuse at work, and twice I’ve experienced that the network configuration cannot recover from a netcard being changed. During boot Read more…
GUI PROGRAMMING IS not something I’ve done in quite a while. At work I do embedded programming and that’s mainly also what I’ve been doing for my own personal projects. Except for some small utility applications I really haven’t done large GUI projects since MFC 6.0 was cool (if such Read more…
THE HEXDUMP MAN page, I find, is not the best written example of an applications manual. I recently had a task of finding the addresses of filename encounters generated when a bunch of files were written to an uncompressed jffs2 partition. Normally I’ve been sticking to the simple hexdump -C Read more…
KDE ON VMWARE appears to be a combination of instability. At work I’ve been running Kde on two VMware Workstation installations, one Suse 10.0 and a Debian unstable. The experience is the same for both installs where the VMware session crashes at least on time a day, but more often Read more…