Technical notes, my online memory

The general HOWTO . Explanation of the built-in macros and how to configure with ~/.rpmmacros If you have a change to the original source y...

Vmware server and workstation are both currently broken on the kernel version in Hardy. You need to install a patch to get them to compile ...

Great article on how to detect VMWare, and how to prevent detection using undocumented VMX settings. Written by Ed Skoudis and Tom Liston ...

Argh! The option to prevent Audio CDs from being played automatically has been removed from System | Preferences | Removable Drives and Med...

My intel sound card didn't work out of the box with Hardy. I followed these instructions to compile and install the driver, and all wa...

The initrd in hardy broke luks cryptoroot, because the cryptroot script refers to udevsettle, which has been replaced with udevadm. It dies...

I use the free ntp pool for access to accurate timing. Edit /etc/ntp.conf and add these lines: server 0.us.pool.ntp.org server 1.us.pool.nt...