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 are compiled against libmysqlclient12…

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 /serial1 >

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 situation. It's hard for…

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 Sultan [http:…