When: 10:00 – 16:30, Saturday 17th January 2009
Where: SeminarRoom1, Southampton University.
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From ThomasAdam: Rename all files in a directory to lower casemmv "[A-Z]" "[a-z]" * Or, for Debian users, assuming all files are in the same directory: rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' * and assuming that they are in subdirectories under the current directory: find -type f | xargs rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' (Note that the Debian version of “rename” is not the same as the version shipped with many other distributions. The above won’t work on Red Hat, for example. It is perl based.) From ThomasAdam: This example also is potentially dangerous, as it assumes [continued…] Here are some notes for those having some trouble trying to run the latest version of Xen (3.3.1 as of writing – Jan 2009) on Debian Etch – with Debian Etch DomUs. Many may find that their DomUs and their configs, that previously worked with the Debian Etch packaged Xen 3.0.3, now don’t work. I should add that to run the latest version of Xen on Debian Etch requires you to download the source tarball from the Xen website. Following the instructions in the source tar ball work with a few exceptions: Note: I installed these [continued…]
How to setup a serial console to manage and boot your Linux boxThis document will explain how to setup your Linux box to give you a console via a serial connection. As long as you have a serial port you will be able to log in to a Linux box over serial and also manipulate LILO/grub. If you have a server BIOS that can do serial console redirection then you may also be able to manipulate BIOS settings and watch the entire boot process. BIOS serial console redirectionIf you have a fancy BIOS/motherboard that can [continued…] NOTE: This is horribly out of date. I suggest removing it for now, until someone has time to rewrite it? —DavidRamsden. To do (random things, random order):
Installing Debian in the first placeWhen I install Debian, I do everything as normal but skip tasksel and dselect when it asks.Then I make sure [continued…] Kernel recompile for ALSA, nVIDIA drivers, Queen and country A wiki specifically for ALSA can be found at http://alsa.opensrc.org/ This document will tell you how to recompile your kernel to get sound working (ALSA) and use the nVIDIA drivers. It’s specifically aimed at Debian GNU/Linux Sid (unstable) and the 2.4.25 kernel. If you try and use something else, the specifics may be lost. It also also assumes you can use the “nano” editor a little and are using gdm as your login display manager. Lines prefixed with a # (hash) mean a command to [continued…] (The following is from the MailingList. It’s a description of how to mount USB devices that use the vfat filesystem. So this will typically include USB-keypens, MP3 players, digital cameras, etc.) It’s probably a FAT-based filesystem on the USB device (it is on most USB devices). FAT doesn’t have the concept of file ownership, and the few (4) permissions bits that FAT knows about don’t map on to the (at least 9) bits that UNIX filesystems expect. As a result, FAT filesystems mounted in Linux assume a fairly restrictive set of file permissions. You need to [continued…] OK, this’ll be another of my infamous ‘cut and paste’ jobs from my notes! It is again based on a Debian unstable install, so it’ll be all apt-get or aptitude stuff: FlashEnsure that your /etc/apt/sources.list file contains the contrib keyword e.g. deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib
aptitude update . To install flash: aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree ..erm, that simple enough?! JavaYou might also wish to refer to the /MozillaFirefoxJava page. 1. aptitude install fakeroot java-package download the Java 1.5.0 [continued...] OK, this is very much a work in progress, but since it has come up on the list recently I thought I would add my install notes to the wiki:
orca:~# aptitude -s install cupsys Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: {{{ cupsys-bsd cupsys-client gs-esp libcupsimage2 libslp1 smbclient xpdf-common The following [continued...]
Streaming your webcam from your website IntroductionYou want to stream (i.e. (near) real-time) your webcam from your website. However:
This document will show you how to stream your webcam from your website and [continued…] |
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