Archives mensuelles pour mai, 2009
Listing initrd content with lsinitrd
The initrd used by most distribution to boot a Linux OS is most of the time a black magic box for most people. Today i’ve learn a new command from Andrey Borzenkov on the Cooker ML : lsinitrd. This command, from the nash package, allow to list the content of the initrd. For example to list the content of the default initrd used to boot [...]
Rant of the day : crappy new Gnome pu...
I was just willing to make a gracious rant, so here it is : new gnome mixer based on pulseaudio is so crap that I can’t believe they dare to release this and put it in a stable gnome release ! Sorry Colin, sorry pulseaudio dev ( Lennart ), but your new mixer is just utterly broken. Reinout van Schouwen or Adam already talk about it, but [...]
Debugging Firefox autoconfig feature ...
I’ve begun to test the migration of my Mandriva 2008.1 workstations to Mandriva 2009.1. While doing this, I noticed that I could no longer enforced settings on firefox : /etc/firefox.cfg was ignored. Indeed, under Mandriva, putting lockPref statements in /etc/firefox.cfg was enough, and we didn’t have to encrypt it. Now let’ [...]
Digg it facebook it spread it : Web 2...
Today I spend some time reading the different reviews about Mandriva 2009 Spring. For this I use the excellent tuxmachines.org/ website. What can I say ? Most reviews are very positive, this is always a pleasure So I decide to ask the Mandriva community to spread how awesome the Mandriva 2009.1 Spring release is. So I’m going to provi [...]
PHP Toolbox : determining file mimety...
On the extranet I developed for my society, the users have the ability to upload files, but I do restrict the files types depending on the document’s nature. That’s why i need a way to determined the mimetype of the document in PHP. For this I’m using finfo, here the code as used for a document which have been just uploaded. [...]
KDE 4 job notifications issues when u...
One of the most useful KDE 4 feature sometimes annoy me a lot : KDE 4 job notifications.
One of the new feature of the KDE 4 desktop is the new job framework thanks to the new Kuiserver which allow to display and group all KJobs in one place. This is useful to have a central place for notification or job progress ( notably file copy, … [...]
Thoughts about Linux marketing #3 : M...
Last time I talk about the Xtreem OS. As we could see, there were very few communication/PR about this on Mandriva website. This complete lack of communication from Mandriva about theses R&D projects is very strange. Nothing on
KDE 4.3 enters in Mandriva Cooker : t...
Now that the Mandriva 2009 Spring have been released, the Mandriva development tree for the next version is now opened. Helio Chissini de Castro, from the Mandriva KDE team, announced a few days ago that KDE 4.3 pre-release version will land in cooker. As of today, a few KDE 4.2.70 packages begin to appears on Mandriva cooker FTP repositories [...]