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The postman delivered another package for me, the other day.
As I wrote earlier, you can request a set of Ubuntu cds, to be posted to you, completely free of charge. Just register, fill in your address, the amount of cds you want to receive, and you’re done!
So I did that a few weeks ago, and now I’ve got 5 boxes, each containing one install cd and one live cd of Ubuntu 5.10 “Breezy Badger”!
Kubuntu
Last week I installed Kubuntu on my home pc. Last month, (K)Ubuntu version 5.10 “The Breezy Badger” was released.
The installation was without much trouble. The only problem I have is with my Abit Hotrod IDE controller. Because my harddisks are connected to that instead of the onboard controller, they are /dev/hde and /dev/hdg. I have had these problems before with other distributions, and back then I had to download a bootfloppy-image with the correct support for this controller, before I could even start the installation.
None of that now, luckily. I booted from the cd, it detected my disks, installed everything, no problem.
#pragma warning(disable: 4786)
WOOHOO!
I have successfully ported my Linux code to Windows.
My application (for time-dependent isosurface extraction and rendering) uses VTK for the visualisation, FLTK for the user-interface, and pthreads for multi-threading.
Well, the first two are cross-platform toolkits, so no problem getting them compiled under Windows. But POSIX threads… nope… So I had to try something else.
DHCP server has died?
Two weeks ago, I wrote that I couldn’t get DHCP to work in Debian. I am convinced by now, that it’s not me, nor Debian, nor my configuration of Debian, it’s just the modem/router.
I tried to connect my laptop, running Windows XP, and I did not get an IP address. Yes, I did check the “Obtain IP address automatically”-checkbox! Can it be any easier than that?
The built-in DHCP server of the SMC 7204BRA router just seems to have died after handing out 2 IP addresses. I cannot think of any other explanation…
DHCP in Debian
Why doesn’t my DHCP client work in Debian?
I’ve got my ADSL connection working alright in Windows, but of course I want to get it to work with Debian also (dual boot on the same machine).
In Windows I’ve checked the “Obtain IP address automatically” checkbox, and it all works fine. My modem / router hands out the IP address 192.168.1.3. Great! But when I boot Debian, I get no response from the DHCP server whatsoever.
Handspring Visor Neo
I finally bought a PDA, this week. I have always found these things too expensive for what they would offer me: an address book and an agenda. I certainly don’t need anything else, and even my agenda normally isn’t very full, so it wasn’t worth speding 250 to 400 (or even more) Euros for me.
But then I read a review of the cheapest Palm, the Zire, which is available at the MediaMarkt for 90 Euros. Well, that’s something I wouldn’t mind paying.
Microsoft Antivirus?
Read this on tweakers.net (in Dutch):
June 11, 2003: Microsoft buys RAV antivirus software from GeCAD.
What? Is Microsoft going to make their own virus scanner?
June 12, 2003: RAV AntiVirus ceases to exist.
“At the moment there are more than 10 million users and most of them use Linux.”
Ah, no, they just misuse their monopoly again and buy out the competition! That’s more like Microsoft… how typical!
Update: Have a look at this, it’s true after all…
June 18, 2003: Microsoft is going to develop own virus scanner.
MPlayer 0.90
I downloaded the recently released MPLayer 0.90 last week.
You also have to download a number of codecpacks, if you want to play Windows Media, RealPlayer, or even Quicktime (!) movies. I don’t know how long MPlayer has had Quicktime support, but it seems to work very well now. There is (almost) no need for CodeWeavers’ CrossOver Plugin anymore.
Scanner not working in Debian
I have a Trust Easy Connect 19200 Plus parallel port scanner, and I’ve been trying to get that to work under Linux. I found this link about the little brother of my scanner. As it says in that document, the latest version of sane (Scanner Access Now Easy) has native support for this scanner, so I downloaded and installed version 1.0.11 of the backends and 1.0.10 of the frontends.
Printer working in Debian
It looks like I’ve finally got my HP Deskjet 959c USB printer working in Debian. After downloading and installing the HPIJS drivers (see hpinkjet.sourceforge.net or www.linuxprinting.org), I should have been able to simply print with lpr or gs…
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