Et ben, voila j’ai perdu un écran sur la machine qui me sert de routeur. Sans clavier ni écran le diagnostique n’est pas facile en cas d’erreur. Mais heureusement le mode console est là. Je ne sais pas depuis combien de temps cela existe dans le kernel, mais je pense que cela ne doit pas être loin des origines.
Dear member, please note that this week we shall be having our monthly
meeting on this saturday, the 22nd.
My sincere apologies this is quite short notice, i have been busy and
had to confirm with the president :p
Time : 10hr30
location: Orbis Court 8th floor (lift up to 7 and walk up to 8th.), Quatres Bornes, linkbynet indian ocean’s new headquarters infront of (20/vin)
Presentation: This week there shall be a presentation by logan (saved again by the gud ole gnukid)
Agenda : Discussion about paper work, plan for this year (if executive members come)
We hope to have your presence on this event.
Please confirm your presence via mailing list [[email protected]] or
post a comment on the blog entry.
Cheers
+selven
Secretary of the LUG
Dear member,
please note that this week we shall be having our monthly meeting on this saturday, the 23rd.
My sincere apologies this is quite short notice, i have been busy and had to confirm with the president :p
We hope to have your presence on this event. Please confirm your presence via mailing list [discuss (AT) lugm.org] or post a comment on the blog entry.
Cheers +selven
Secretary of the LUG
Dans la série je ne sais pas quoi faire le jour de nöel, j’ai testé pour vous swftools.
C’est un outil GPL (opensource) qui permet de faire des fichiers flash en décrivant chaque Keyframe, le logiciel permet de compiler le fichier et de générer l’animation Flash.
Bref c’est un petit utilitaire en mode texte qui peut faire quelques animations sympathiques pour vos cartes de voeux… et donner un peu de vie à un message en mode texte.
Bonne Année 2010 à tous.
Continue reading
We have uploaded the presentations of year 2009.
April Meeting: high performance web server (Logan)
July Meeting: The Future of Computers in Education (Dr Stefan Brandle) Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
August Meeting: Wireless Security (Logan)
October Meeting: Silent and cheap firewall (Logan)
Novermber Meeting: DTT Receiver (Shaan) — Link not available
December Meeting: Shell Scripting Tips (logan)
Other presentations will be uploaded as soon as possible,
please be patient.
Also, bear in mind that the PDF files contain very basic
information. A lot more is discussed during the meetings.
In other words, attending meetings brings a lot more !
//Logan
C-x-C-c
Dear member, please note that this week we shall be having our monthly
meeting on this saturday, the 19th.
My sincere apologies this is quite short notice, i have been busy and
hence was unable to send
a notification earlier.. If there’s less than 5 confirmations by
friday 11AM, the meeting shall be postponed.
Time : 10hr00
location: Linkbynet, 2nd Floor BG court, St jean, Quatres Bornes
Map for your convenience :http://thegodof.net/images/maplugm.png
Agenda : Discussion about paper work
We hope to have your presence on this event.
Until further notice, logan shall be doing this months technical presentation.
(damned he should be given free food for always having a presentation
at any time!)
Please confirm your presence via mailing list [[email protected]] or
post a comment on the blog entry.
Cheers
+selven
Secretary of the LUG
Dear member, please note that this week we shall be having our monthly
meeting on this saturday, the 7th.
Time : 10hr00
location: Linkbynet, 2nd Floor BG court, St jean, Quatres Bornes
Map for your convenience :http://thegodof.net/images/maplugm.png
Agenda : Registration done, now what?
We hope to have your presence on this event.
Until further notice, shaan shall be doing a presentation this week
[unless sometihng comes up]. Please stay tuned for updates.
Please confirm your presence via mailing list [[email protected]] or
post a comment on the blog entry.
Meeting shall be postponed in case there’s less than 5 confirmations.
Cheers
+selven
Secretary of the LUG
Whitehouse.gov is now powered by Drupal, an Open Source Software.
Interestingly, the Department of Defense of the USA has released a memo where it is said that “it is required to conduct market research… [and] include OSS [in the research] when it may meet mission needs.”
It’s official. World Domination is coming.
Please note that the meeting for tommorrow the 26th of september has been postponed to next Saturday the 3rd of October 2009.
Time : 10hr00
location: Linkbynet, 2nd Floor BG court, St jean, Quatres Bornes
Map for your convenience
Agenda is : Registration 🙂 we are finally registerred!
Please note that we might probably hold a small party together to celebrate it :).
We hope to have your presence on this event, you better not miss that out.
Logan will be doing a presentation entitled “A cheap and silent firewall”.
Cheers
+selven
Secretary of the LUG
As soon as FreeBSD8.0rc1 came out (some hours after being uploaded) i wanted to try it out on my new work laptop (HP DV6 1160ei), surprised and sad i was to find that the installer itself couldn’t proceed further…i got bumped with this error:
lots of stuffs after the bootloader….
:
:
:
uhub7: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered
ugen7.2: at usbus7
ugen4.2: at usbus4
ugen5.2: at usbus5
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for xpt_config
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 180 seconds for xpt_config
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 240 seconds for xpt_config
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 300 seconds for xpt_config
stalls here and freezes forever. Which means your installation cannot proceed further.
Seems the problem is related to the firewire support, this problem has been here since FreeBSD7.2,
it seems to affect mostly gigabyte and asus mainboards (others plz do comfirm??). Seems the systems tries to query for firewire storage devices and then is stucked at that point..
The easy fix to this is to just go into your BIOS and disable firewire device and install your FreeBSD leisurely….
but but but… poor me, i just got a damned new HP Pavillon DV6 sexy lookin laptop which doesn’t have any advanced BIOS settings to disable firewire .
I definitely couldn’t be vulgar and just open that up and take out the firewire port :p that would be gross… specially since the laptop isn’t my property.
So my my my, i had to find a way out of this, googling around, it seems there’s no fix for that, since most are lucky enough to have disable firewire in their bios itself,
unless i was crazy and maso to dare run winxp or win vista on my laptop [thoughts of which were so disturbing that i dared not use that laptop and was even thinking of returning it back.
since the install iso itself boots a freebsd kernel, i believed for a temporary solution i could disable firewire via device hints in that loader console,
unfortunately, it didn’t seem to work…. so i did what most people would have done since they have the source and the ability to do anything with it… i played with it :p
i found a solution :p remove firewire support in the iso :p.. all the ways i don’t use that, if ever am gonna use that later on, once i’ve got freeBSD installed, i can think of it later and get it to work later on :p.
So… till i find the bug and correct it in the source itself or till someone else does it, i’ve managed to get the installer to work…
here’s how:
Requirements:
(ps. it can be a minimal installation, since you don’t need desktop or anything in this temporary setup, you just need it to recompile that kernel in the installation cd :p)
10 GB of space minimum
What to do?
(since i had already burnt it on a dvd, i just copied the contents of the dvd in a folder called /usr/disk1)
that’s it, you have already completed most of the work, go to your /usr/disk1 directory [where the dvd iso contents were copied earlier remove the kernel folder in its boot directory and replaced with your new kernel). do like this:
great we are almost done… (ps. if you want you can set splash images also :p)
anywayz, you should then use mkisoimages to build your new dvd iso….
where -b FreeBSD8 can be anything you want, /isowork is just a directory i have made to keep the final iso, and /usr/disk1 is the contents which you want to have in your iso :p.
If ever it complains about some rr_moved error or something simmillar, please do delete the directory named rr_moved from your /usr/disk1 directory
so relaunch your mkisoimages if ever it failed with the rr_moved :p.
after its done… you shall have a nice iso in your destination directory /isowork :p (or your directory you chose)
Though, being lazy, i just scp’ed it to my other computers, went to sleep, woke up in the morning and burnt it 🙂
:p I tried to launch the install from that DVD … now it works! yupeee, finally i’ll be able to use that laptop.
Hope this helped out those poor souls out their who wanted to have their Favourite OS on their HP Pavillon DV6 :p
EDIT: Additional stuffs, once installed your new system shall be unbootable, you should boot from the installation dvd, start a shell there, mount the partition and cp -R /mnt2/boot/kernel to your new /boot directory in your harddisk (after mounting it somewhere).
Also, if you are using gnome please add these in /etc/rc.conf
moused_enable=”YES”
hald_enable=”YES”
dbus_enable=”YES”
ps. actually i wanted to try out 8.0 rc1 in the hope that i might catch a bug and hoped to find a fix and hopefully contribute back to the community.. lol .. that one was unexpected!
pps. plz ignore gramatical errors, typed this in nano, and refrain from starting OS flamewars since its tiring to reply to those :p
ppps. To save you the trouble i can upload the iso image, lemme know.
pppps. Am not responsible if you blow up your computer or whatever :p. My sincere apologies in case of errors.
+selven
pcthegreat A_T gmail / [email protected]