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Rant — Solaris vs Linux Part I

November 13th, 2008 No comments
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HOWTO — Opera Mini + Linux

September 11th, 2008 No comments
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HOWTO — Running familiar Linux from CF/SD/MMC

September 20th, 2007 No comments

This howto cov­ers one way of run­ning famil­iar Linux from your CF, SD, or MMC card.

OK, it doesn’t actu­ally boot from SD, but uses a snazzy Linux trick called pivot_root. Which switches over one root with another. This, IMHO, is prob­a­bly the best way of doing it apart from actu­ally directly boot­ing from SD. Although, I’ve only tried this on a 38xx based iPAQ it should work for all hand­helds based on famil­iar. Heck, it should work for any­thing really.

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Nokia GPRS with Linux iPAQ

September 17th, 2007 No comments

If you have an iPAQ installed with famil­iar Linux and want it to con­nect to the net using your Nokia mobile via GPRS; then this is how you do it.
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HOWTO — Setting up a Linux vserver

October 19th, 2006 No comments
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HOWTO — vmware and AMD64

December 18th, 2005 No comments

My aging 1GHz PC was creak­ing under ths strain of run­ning too many vir­tual PCs. So I decided to upgrade to a much bet­ter, faster PC. I even­tu­ally set­tled on an AMD64 based PC, (200G HD, 3G DDR2 RAM). Basi­cally a nice cool, (lit­er­ally as well), box. The only trou­ble is that I couldn’t get my vmware to run. Aaaaaaaaaaargh. This is a short howto on what I had to do to get it to run.
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