Rant — Solaris vs Linux Part I
November 13th, 2008
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Categories: Linux, Sun Microsystems
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HOWTO — Running familiar Linux from CF/SD/MMC
September 20th, 2007
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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.
Nokia GPRS with Linux iPAQ
September 17th, 2007
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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 — vmware and AMD64
December 18th, 2005
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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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