WeatherTime plugin broken with latest (20060730) Slimserver 6.5

The WeatherTime plugin [http://inside.glnetworks.de/2006/03/11/weathertime-screensaver-plugin-for-slimserver/] is broken with the latest Slimserver [http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/6.5/] 6.5. > Couldn't push into new mode: [OFF.weathertime] !: Can't locate object method "bytesPerColumn" via package "…

LVM and Quota with Vserver on Debian

This article is based on the excellent article on 5dollarwhitebox.org [http://www.5dollarwhitebox.org/wiki/index.php/Howtos_Linux-Vserver_With_LVM_And_Quotas] . At first install nessesary packages: # aptitude -t sarge-backports install lvm2\ util-vserver coreutils linux-image-2.6-vserver-686 Create Volume and Group (Replace '/dev/hda3' to your own…

Enable serial console on Debian 'sarge' GNU/Linux

At first, you need to enable serial ports in your BIOS and wire them up to the case front (if they aren't allready). Make sure you have the following in your /boot/grub/menu.lst: > serial --unit=0 --speed=115200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1 terminal…

WRTSL54GS debridged

Okay ... we got the serial port running (same like WRT54GS), so we could be more risky. After some tries I decided to work analog the WRT54G models. Successfull was the following modifications to factory (linksys) defaults: > nvram set vlan0ports="0 1 2 5*" nvram set vlan1ports="…

We got some Linksys WRTSL54GS imported from US

![Linksys WRTSL54GS](https [/content/images/2006/06/wrtsl54gs.jpeg] Don´t ask how, but we got some units to europe. The first thing we does, was to install openwrt [http://www.openwrt.org] and to try debridge the switch to have multiple interfaces instead. We was able to remove ports…

Compling FinkCommander

On the way to get an acceptable mail client (kmail) on Mac OSX, I installed fink [http://fink.sf.net] and updated to unstable tree and did run selfupdate-cvs. After the update FinkCommander [http://finkcommander.sf.net] neither the version shipped by fink 0.8 nor the latest binary package…