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apt Repositories

There’s a slightly outdated list at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=185758 DropBox Repository for DropBox. feisty-commercial Google LaunchPad Projects Aguignard (Sonata, a MPD client) Bazaar Bazaar BETA Blueman blueyed (TV-Browser) c-korn (wine, vlc) Conduit Deluge Gnome Do Gnome Do BETA Gnome Terminator GnuCash Hamster Applet hyperair (Pidgin) james-w (Ubuntu Netbook Remix) mishd (Hotwire, PasswordSafe) mozillateam (Mozilla Alpha) Netbook Remix… Read More: apt Repositories »

Card Reader of the Acer Aspire One

Model: JMicron JMB38x PCI Express to 1394a OHCI and Memory Card Host Controller Enabling the device The cardreader device seems to be hidden on bootup and you have to enable it by issuing: This didn’t work on the commandline but inside the rc.local, my 16GiB SDcard in the left slot was recognized fine. Multicard-reader driver… Read More: Card Reader of the Acer Aspire One »

Install Linpus Linux on the Acer Aspire One

There exist several manuals on how to install Linpus from a recovery DVD. Basically you just boot the recovery DVD on some PC, select “create rescue usb key” and insert a 2 GiB (or more) usb key. ⚠️ 1 GiB won’t work – the recovery image is slightly larger ⚠️ After the recovery stick has… Read More: Install Linpus Linux on the Acer Aspire One »

Install Ubuntu on the Acer Aspire One

There’s a nice help page at the Ubuntu page. Needed: Missing features: Intrepid Ibex (8.10) Works almost out-of-the-box. You just have to blacklist the ath_pci module to make the WLAN card work. Everything else seems to work fine. You might have to keep the setkeycodes mappings for the popup displays when changing volume or brightness… Read More: Install Ubuntu on the Acer Aspire One »

BIOS Recovery on the Acer Aspire One

After playing around a bit, my Aspire One (v3114) got bricked after a normal reboot (blank screen, power led and fan on, nothing else). There’s a nice recovery procedure for the BIOS at macles. Somehow an A150L with the v3114 BIOS didn’t let me update it to v3304. The Power-LED was blinking and the LED… Read More: BIOS Recovery on the Acer Aspire One »

Flashing HTC devices from Linux

To flash HTC devices under Linux, there is the HTCFlasher tool. You might be missing the /dev/ttyUSB0 device in recent Ubuntu installations. To fix this, use lsusb and look for the device ID of a Microsoft Corp. Generic PPC Flash device (if in bootloader mode). Now do a or add the following line to your… Read More: Flashing HTC devices from Linux »

OggSync for Windows Mobile

Tested Version: 4.19 OggSync connects to https://oggsync.com/r/r or https://oggsync.com/r/e and sends the entered info (PayPal eMail or Registration Code) along with some other info. You can find these URLs in cleartext Unicode inside the ogsync.exe. The relevant fields of a $_SERVER dump are those: PayPal: (I entered anon@anon.com as eMail address.) Registration Code: (The 12345… Read More: OggSync for Windows Mobile »

/boot to own partition

Using an emulated SCSI-adapter in VMware with a very large root disk may give you either or This is because the initrd image is created (maybe only partially) outside the 1024-cylinder boundary accessible by the VMware BIOS. The only stress-free solution is to move /boot to its own partition directly at the beginning of the… Read More: /boot to own partition »

Enable USB Sharing

To use USB devices under e.g. VirtualBox in Hardy, edit the file /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh and find the line: Remove the following four comments so that it looks like this: Also add the following line to your /etc/fstab (129 is the group-ID of vboxusers)1 see Stone.log: Now enable the new settings by doing: Finally, edit the file… Read More: Enable USB Sharing »

sudo insults on wrong password

Edit the file /etc/sudoers and find the line: Now add ,insults to the end of the line so that it reads like that: From now on, sudo will insult anyone who mistypes his password. See for yourself: [sudo] password for foo:Hold it up to the light — not a brain in sight![sudo] password for foo:Speak… Read More: sudo insults on wrong password »