The directory /etc/ is vital for our Linux systems as it contains (most of) the configuration files of the system. In case of trouble, it’s quite common, that you’ll visit this directory after browsing through syslog. Sometimes it would be nice to be able to really track down changes to see what happened over time; and this is […]
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Safenet Authentication Client 8.1.0-4 vs Gentoo64?
Today someone pointed me towards SAC 8.1 which is the middleware for my eToken which I am trying to use on Gentoo (pure 64bit) for quite a while. After downloading and unpacking I peeked at the binaries shipped, as the old version offered 32 bit ones which I couldn’t use on my system. So a quick check using […]
Unpacking a .deb package without dpkg
Debian is a nice distro, as long as you don’t need to mess around with its packages on other systems. Today I was playing around with the SafeNet stuff for eTokens on gentoo – and all I had was the debian package, but no dpkg command. After looking at the package it was quite simple to open it: […]
Extending Grub2 to detect Memtest+
Grub2 using Gentoo doesn’t detect if a Memtest86+ boot image is available – so I tried to come up with a solution which looks as follows:
Testing Grub2
Gentoo is a distribution where you decide about software you install. This was reason enough for me to give Grub2 a spin. Installation wasn’t that hard after unmasking and keywording the grub package: echo “sys-boot/grub:2 **” >> /etc/portage/package.keywords echo “sys-boot/grub:2” >> /etc/portage/package.unmask emerge -av sys-boot/grub:2
Looking for a proper phone
Looking at the mobile phone market I have to admit the trend doesn’t make me happy. Nokia buried Maemo and Meego and decided to use Windows, Apple forces you to use iTunes which is a pain in the ass on any non-macintosh stuff. Symbian is ancient old and I won’t use Windows on a mobile phone.