As an update to my “hello world” kernel module article, there is a much easier way to set up your Debian-based Linux (including Ubuntu) to build kernel modules, without manually getting the relevant kernel headers using apt-get. I’ve tested this process with Ubuntu 8.04, 9.04 and 9.10 and it works great. Do the following to [...]
Read more →When writing for publication, you may be offered a .cls file from the journal in question in which to format a TeX document to their specification. Whilst this works great in TeX, usually by copying the class.cls file in your working directory where all your .tex files reside and adding \documentclass{class} in the preamble (before [...]
Read more →I keep all my media in a central location on a network store but I want to be able to play it on my iphone when I’m away without network connectivity. Most of the content is avi/divx/xvid which the iphone does not play natively. Handbrake is a really slick transcoder which converts a wide number [...]
Read more →Quagga is a suite of dynamic routing protocols for Unix based systems and is a fork of GNU Zebra, which seems to be discontinued. I attempted to follow the documentation but some steps seemed to be assumed so here is what I did to get it up and running on my Ubuntu 8.04 system – [...]
Read more →I’ve just deployed a few visual changes to my blog which should help with the readability and usability of the material on here. Included is: Increased post font size to make it easier to read. Removed link to technorati, their new beta website seems a bit broken at the moment. Moved the search box to [...]
Read more →Windows 7 Enterprise installs by default expect an Key Management Server (KMS) running on the local network by which to activate against. Hence when you try to activate an Enterprise copy from MSDN, it will fail with the error code 0x8007232B, as there is no KMS to activate with. The keys generated by an MSDN [...]
Read more →Saturday marked the 8th annual DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper conference at Microsoft’s Reading HQ in the UK. This is a community event organised, run and attended by the community and with no Microsoft speakers. This is the third one I’ve been to and found it very difficult this time to choose between the sessions as they were more [...]
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