MySQL5 support in php5 packages on backport.org

I'm stuck of the requests linking php5 on backports.org [http://backports.org] against "MySQL5". You need support of MySQL5 or the mysqli extention for your php5 packages for sarge? So the packages on backports.org [http://backports.org] are not what you want. The packages…

vroot support gone in debian kernel 2.6.18 ... why?

# grep -i vroot /boot/config*-vserver* /boot/config-2.6.16-2-vserver-686:CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VROOT=y /boot/config-2.6.17-2-vserver-686:CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VROOT=y /boot/config-2.6.18-3-vserver-686:# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VROOT is not set /boot/config-2.6.18-4-vserver-686:# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VROOT is not set Does anybody know, why…

last weekend on CLT

Reduced the work queue after the nice weekend on CLT [http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2007/info/], I have some time to write a summary. After 2 years I was able to be there again, cause I blocked the weekend early in my timetable. The event was organized quite well like…

Serial console with VMWare

In your config file of virtual machine you need the following: # grep serial openwrt.vmx serial0.present = "TRUE" serial0.fileType = "pipe" serial0.fileName = "./serial1" serial0.pipe.endPoint = "server" serial0.hardwareFlowControl = "TRUE" Redirect output to stdio or a port: # socat <…

OpenWRT 0.9 / X-WRT 2.75

Last week I updated my WRTSL54GS [http://blog.waja.info/2006/06/27/we-got-some-linksys-wrtsl54gs-imported-from-us/] to OpenWRT [http://openwrt.org] 0.9 with X-WRT [http://www.x-wrt.org] 2.75. Since my box has an USB port, I was missing a way to umount mounted usb storage. Looking deeper into it,…

BIOS Bootsplash for Thinkpad (T41)

[ On thinkwiki.org [http://thinkwiki.org] I found 2 articles how to get rid of the IBM BIOS Bootsplash and your own working. One for Windows [http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_change_the_BIOS_bootsplash_screen_%28under_Windows%29] and one for Linux [http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/…

completely d^Hgone

Today it happen, what I know it would happen some day. My grandfather is not in this world anymore. I don't know, if there is anything other, where he could be now and unfortunatly it seems we aren't experience it until we are in the same…

Music and Debian

Today I found a way to combine consuming my favorite Radio Station [http://www.friskyradio.com/] and using my favorite System Distribution [http://www.debian.org/]. On working hours and most of the time at home I'm listening to Frisky Radio [http://www.friskyradio.com/], founded by Faisal…