Wow, it’s been over a year since I’ve posted anything here. Been busy with work and life.

Here’s a script called rhevx that I created to painlessly extract the logs gathered by the Log Collector Utility shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager 2.x

Pass it …

I installed the firefox-3.5 package in Jaunty and found that the facebook chat applet on their page stopped working. It seemed to think I was running an outdated browser. A quick google search came up with a result: http://rrenomeron.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/ubuntus-firefox-3-5-and-facebook-chat/

I could’ve …

Sorry it took me so long, but I’ve updated my wiki with information on how to get most everything working on the tablet. The wacom tablet works out of the box now with no xorg.conf, but it took me a little while to figure out where all of the devices were being created and what they were now called.

It should go without saying that with “iPhone” and “Linux” in the same sentence you’ll need a jailbroken phone for this. Use the following commands to dump your mp3 file to WAV then convert it to m4a:

1. mplayer -vo null -vc null -ao pcm:fast:file=file.wav file …

This has already been done before, but I wanted to try to do it myself. It turned out a bit more complicated than I thought it would be on Ubuntu 8.10 and Fedora 10 because of the way gconftool-2 now interacts with D-BUS.

First, I created a script …

After doing a fresh install of Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10) on my Toshiba Portege M400 there were some configuration changes that needed to be made

I’m writing this guide after upgrading my 1.1.2 jailbroken iPhone to 1.1.4. As with my last guide, I don’t …

After doing a fresh install of Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) on my Toshiba Portege M400 there were some configuration changes that needed to be made.

I noticed that everyday I had a defunct logrotate process on one of my servers running Debian and lighttpd. After some searching I found this bug report that said to make the following changes to my /etc/logrotate.d/lighttpd file:

postrotate
            if [ -f /var/run/lighttpd.pid ]; then \
              if …

I upgraded my Toshiba Protege M400 to Gusty and to my surprise the wacom input stopped working. After searching the internet without much success, I notice that there were two wacom devices, /dev/wacom and /dev/input/wacom. Both were symlinks to /dev/ttyS0, which makes sense as the tablet …