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Installing Debian GNU/Linux on a Thinkpad X121e
Installing Debian (testing/wheezy) on the X121e (AMD) was pretty easy, but the documentation I found online was a little contradicting and confusing. I encountered a few problems.EthernetUpdate: You...
View ArticleHow to build salt backports on Debian squeeze
There were packages of salt 0.10.1 in backports but they were removed, and the only saltstack packages in Debian are now in unstable.However, building your own backport is quite easy. This assumes you...
View ArticleUsing Wayland/Weston in Debian
As of today Weston is available in Debian sid/testing, and it is very usable, at least for me with an ATI card. I have been tinkering with it a bit. One of the things I did was to switch to a german...
View ArticleUsing any Debian box as a wireless access point
I just lost an hour trying to configure a Thinkpad T41 as a wireless access point. Most of that time was due to problems with the built-in wlan interface and a kernel recompile to use a prism54-based...
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Switching to Openbox
After a decade of windowmaker and fluxbox I've switched to openbox. I was motivated by the fact that some recent fluxbox upgrade left my decor-less urxvtcs visible on all desktops which was rather...
View ArticleAccents in xorg
Most of the time I'm a very happy vim user. Vim has superb support for inputting all kind of characters, see :help digraph and :digraphs. But from time to time I need to input accents etc. in other GUI...
View ArticleCanon Powershot A60 on Debian
Edit: This is a very old (2003) page of mine that needs a new location, and I think this blog is the best place.I bought my camera at the end of april 2003 and after a few minutes of toying around i...
View ArticleSamsung ML-1610 on Debian GNU/Linux
I bought this printer a long time ago and it was connected to my Mac until that box died. I tried to install it once but never tried again after I didn't get it to work in less than five minutes. Well,...
View ArticleDebian init script for virtualenv'd gunicorn_django
I recently moved my projects from wsgi to gunicorn and needed init scripts. Here's what I'm currently using.I have the gunicorns running behind nginx, so you might want to tweak the IP and PORT...
View ArticlePepperflash plugin in wheezy fix
The pepperflashplugin-nonfree package in wheezy-backports is broken, as it downloads the flash plugin from the latest chrome release and installs it. The latest release links against libc6 2.14 which...
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