People usually goes to the seaside at the weekend. But here it was snowing. So, I thought about setting up some geeky stuff.
First of all, upgrade of my ubuntu server to Gutsy Gibbon. Quite smooth, even if I did it via ssh and with an ever-dropping connection. Just apache: complains about port 443 used by someone else, and it was itself. Removed it from /etc/apache2/ports.conf, since already present in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/ssl.conf.
Second: now I have an alpha server at home. Got some difficulty, since I never worked on an alpha neither do it via serial line (given alpha was configured to use only serial line as input/output). But, at last, ralph the alpha is up. Ralph, just like Ralph Waldo Emerson, oh my dear, nothing less. aboot - the boot system for alpha servers with SRM consoles (wonderful thing, by the way) - still does not boot up right, complaining about a unknown zip compression, but when I give him the boot stuff by hand, it starts smoothly. I had just to add a console=ttyS0 by hand and the corresponding entry in /etc/inittab, and it was all ok. It’ll start crunching numbers (see: running antispam, computing graphs and keeping the mysql db) as soon as I can configure it. Veeeeery nice.
Posted by mattia as apache, ubuntu at 10:05 PM CEST
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At last I’ve got my brand new MacBook. Double boot with MacOSX, thanks to the very good Ubuntu MacBook guide; partitioning and installation did take about 2 hours. But then, I’ve still some problems, many of which are surely limitations of mine:
- Ubuntu CD Boot did ignore my keystrokes until it did get in graphical mode. This meant I couldn’t apply the lpj hack at first. Luckily, it seems that the problem was not relevant to my mac (I applied it anyway afterwards, adding the “lpj=8000000″ the the commented “kopt” line on /boot/grub/menu.lst). Then, for the two or three reboot afterwards, keystrokes were still ignored, but then started to work again. I honestly ignore what did I do, but I activated all the repositories to get more recent software and updated, so…
- Can make compiz work on the gnome interface, but I wanted a Kubuntu. Kubuntu integration is, in fact, quite worse than standard gnome interface (not a big surprise, all in all).
- MadWifi drivers did make the card work, but I had to explicitely set the mode of operation as “shared”, and not “open”, by adding a line to the related /etc/network/interfaces entry:
auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid XXXXXXXX
wireless-key XXXXXXXXXX
pre-up iwpriv ath0 authmode 2
- for some times Firefox never worked at first start (did not read keystrokes, nor open any home page); always had to close it and restart. Now it works fine - again, I’m using KDE and a more updated version of packages, so perhaps this is the reason.
Posted by mattia as compiz, firefox, kde, kubuntu, macbook, madwifi, ubuntu at 7:14 PM CEST
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