ewanm89’s blog

Trying http://imified.com/, seems to be an awesome service… In fact, I’m writing this blogpost through it

edit: Seem to not quite have worked… Maybe it converts to links automatically, more experimentation needed.

I haven’t posted of late…, I mean 15 days… I thought I asked you to remind me

Anyway, back at uni. Still unsure on whether to release anti-rickroll script…

I’m fed up of these youtube rickrolls, so I’ve made a nice little greasemonkey script to do this instead.

Unfortunately if I upload script people will know how to rickroll me, and I don’t want that… So I have a bit of a dilemma…

To help my part in the current wave amongst Linux bloggers: “cat ~/.histfile|awk ‘{a[$1]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head” (yes I use zsh) gives:

408 sudo
143 vim
137 ssh
137 ls
135 cd
86 dmesg
52 make
43 pkill
37 ps
32 plog

So I do far too much as root… too much in vim and too much on other computers, and why do I keep using cd?

When setting this server I ran into a a couple of problems, this has bought up a couple of questions:

1. How can apache manage some URL rewrite rules without mod_rewrite being enabled?
2. Why isn’t MySQL using UTF8 by default already?

If you have a laptop and it has a cardreader that doesn’t seem to work on linux.

This one lspci reports as:
06:04.1 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI Memory Stick Card Reader Controller (rev 01)
06:04.2 Generic system peripheral [0805]: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI Secure Digital Card Reader Controller (rev 01)
06:04.3 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc: (rev 01)
06:04.4 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc SD/MMC Card Reader Controller (rev 01)

Check, for /dev/ files that look lik /dev/mmcblk0 and /dev/mmcblk0p1. It may just work (on recent kernels).

mount with something like “sudo mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt”

All the files will be under /mnt/ in this example.

and don’t forget to umount it with “sudo umount /mnt” before you yank it out.

I’ve been following openmoko for quite a few months now and actually started getting a multiuser environment together, development version of the neo-1973 is out. However parents won’t let me order one :(. Please mum, I need it for development, qemu is just too tedious for such development.

Good news is in a few weeks I’ll hopefully have a bank account I can use to order it.

For those of you that have read this blog and got confused, see http://openmoko.org/ and http://openmoko.com/

I’ve been using compiz-fusion for a couple of weeks now, for those of you that don’t know it is the the compiz-extras/Beryl merge. It isn’t ready for release quite yet but I have it built from the git repos using the xeffects gentoo overlay (see http://gentoo-xeffects.org/). I’ll leave you with these images of various new things.



And finally I thought it was stable enough for this:

Started playing around with gentoo, after the difficult task of resizing the ‘buntu partition I did the basic install, mostly things went well. So I now have a working system (still a few problems to iron out) and I still have a lot to install.

I’m calling for everyone to boycott eurovision as the BBC are using it to replace Dr Who tonight. We want Dr Who. So if we get the viewer ratings down, the BBC might think twice next year.