The T-Mobile G1 Phone goes by a few names. HTC Dream and Google Android Development phone are two more. Essentially they are the same hardware and the only change is the software. The Android Development phone unlike the others comes with an unlocked bootloader allowing you to flash any software image you want where the [...]
So recently Fedora released the alpha of their latest OS. I’d been running rawhide for quite a while. Of particular interest is that my RS690 no longer flickers when I move a window that includes an alpha channel, and no longer randomly crashes. I’ve still got to disable modesetting but modesetting currently only stops me [...]
So you use keys to SSH between your hosts, and you either have separate keys for each machine you use, or worse you have the same key on each machine. Lets go over why each of those are bad, and lets see how SSH Agent forwarding will help with those issues and make things easier [...]
So today I did about the stupidest thing I could have done at the time. I was planning on clearing my USB hard drive so I could start my new backup plan on it. Of course any Linux geek knows the easy way to erase a hard drive is to do a ‘dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1′. On almost all my computer there is only one hard drive which maps to /dev/sda. Of course you know exactly where I’m going here don’t you? So this is my home server with two hard drive combines into one volume group. The first hard drive is /dev/sda, the second /dev/sdb and the USB hard drive got mapped to /dev/sdc. So in my case that command obliterated the first 125Mb of my second drive before I [...]
So it appears I called the feature freeze a little early. The feature freeze will actually happen on July 28. You will need to read my other post for features that haven’t changed since [...]