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April 23rd, 2010
The RH for this week is Cryptsetup.
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Changed graphics on website
April 18th, 2010
If you frequently come here to read this blog you may have noticed that the
graphics changed. I spontaneously did this today and I like it. The main
graphic is a triangle with a star (the sun) in its
centroid all in the
european colours. The star has nine points with three points to every side of
the triangle. I made two pictures, one with a black background and one with
a white background. The picture is supposed to represent the union between
solarscale.de and centroid.eu which have been the same website under the
two different names for a while now.
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Airport Extreme JetDirect port has changed?
April 16th, 2010
I've been googling a bit now to find out why the port 9100 on my parents
airport extreme didn't work for JetDirect printing. I've found
this.
Apparently the port changed on some firmware updates from 9100 to 9101. I'll
give this a shot tomorrow when I visit, as Rendevous printing with an old
10.3.9 Mac Os X doesn't seem to work right on the setup that I got there.
Generally I'd portscan but nmap didn't compile on such an old version of
Mac OS X.
Update: it's true it is on port 9101, although Mac OS X 10.3.9 doesn't have an
option to configure the port right, I had to go into the cups webmanagement
at localhost port 631 to make it work. Mac OS X 10.5.x (my dads macbook) worked
with configuring the jetdirect port to 9101 in the apple config system.
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Making X11 resolution work right with vmware guests (1920x1080)
April 15th, 2010
Generally I'm easy going. That means that when something is misconfigured, I
don't care too much and find workarounds. For a while anyways. So to give
you an example I had my new Kubuntu start up with a 800x600 screen under
vmware and it didn't change resolution until I went into the system settings
and clicked on the Display config, it then resized upon opening the program.
Similarily in OpenBSD the resolution was 1024x768 or such so that there was
"wings" of blackness on either side of my widescreen monitor.
All this
I lived with for several month, but since I use OpenBSD as my main desktop
it finally boiled down to me having to fix it. I googled. First hit had
my answer. Someone said to use the program "gtf" to generate a Modeline for
my monitor and stick it into the screen section. I tried that and it didn't
work. They were wrong in that it was the "monitor" section it should have
been put. Once I did that and having examined the /var/log/Xorg.0.log I
noticed that my horizontal syncrate wasn't accepted. So I bumped it up to
90.0 and it finally worked. I want to share my Kubuntu /etc/X11/xorg.conf
file with you, and very similar modifications also worked with OpenBSD,
so here is:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "vmware"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
HorizSync 31.5 - 90.0
VertRefresh 40 - 150
# 1920x1080 @ 60.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 67.08 kHz; pclk: 172.80 MHz
Modeline "1920x1080_60.00" 172.80 1920 2040 2248 2576 1080 1081 1084
1118 -HSync +Vsync
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1920x1080_60.00"
Viewport 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Hope it can be useful for others. Oh yeah, if you're curious why I run both
Kubuntu and OpenBSD as desktops it's this: When I require flash I switch to
Kubuntu, otherwise I do everything in OpenBSD. Most of the google tech talks
I watch are watched with Linux.
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Nothing to report
April 9th, 2010
I don't like putting 2 hackepedias back to back. Oh yeah I relased beta_5
of wildcarddnsd and a patch to that on sourceforge, that's what I've been
doing mainly these past few days.
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WildcardDNSd, new features
March 27th, 2010
In the last 2 weeks or so
Wildcarddnsd
has gotten 2 major features. TXT RR
support is one (which I did today) and NS delegations work now. Before they
weren't working right. Also I extended the region support to IPv6 which was
interesting.
Although these features are in HEAD I'm reluctant to CVS tag for BETA_5.
It's too close still to the last BETA_4 tag. Perhaps in a month, I can
consider this.
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Clear skies, no camera
March 24th, 2010
Well. We had clear skies tonight but I had no chance of making a picture
of the southern sky. Also looking out I cannot make out the
constellation
Leo with the bare eyes. Too much LP (light pollution). However as you can
see I have the Xephem program doing magical things. In the southern sky at
11PM tonight one should see Mars and Saturn as well as the Moon (further up).
Xephem is really a great astronomy program.
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