Apport for Debian

 Posted on April 7, 2012  (Last modified on November 12, 2014)  |  3 minutes  |  462 words  |  

apport just cleared the new queue and is now available in experimental. For those who do not know what apport is: Debugging program crashes without any automated tools has been pretty time consuming and hard for both developers and users. Many program crashes remain unreported or unfixed because: Many crashes are not easily reproducible. End users do not know how to prepare a report that is really useful for developers, like building a package with debug symbols, operating gdb, etc. [Read More]
debian  apport 

Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex

 Posted on November 7, 2011  (Last modified on January 31, 2013)  |  4 minutes  |  641 words  |  

I recently purchased a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1 TB hard drive. It is a 2.5" compact disk that you connect over USB. It draws its power from the USB controller. My previous Extern HDDs were all 2.5" laptop drives, for which I bought a USB enclosure. Those devices always worked perfect, as in: They were automatically detected Partitions/File Systems understood Desktop systems would prompt for actions The typical kernel messages I got for these devices were: [Read More]
scsi  usb  external hdd 

OpenXenManager

 Posted on October 19, 2011  (Last modified on November 12, 2014)  |  1 minutes  |  127 words  |  

OpenXenManager cleared the NEW queue and is now available in the archive. What it is: rrs@champaran:~$ apt-cache show openxenmanager Package: openxenmanagerVersion: 0.r80+dfsg-1Installed-Size: 3051Maintainer: Ritesh Raj Sarraf rrs@debian.orgArchitecture: allDepends: pythonDescription: full-featured graphical management tool for xen using xenapi OpenXenManager is a graphical interface to manage XenServer / Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) hosts through the network . OpenXenManager is an open-source multiplatform clone of XenCenter (Citrix)Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openxenmanager/Section: adminPriority: extraFilename: pool/main/o/openxenmanager/openxenmanager_0.r80+dfsg- 1_all.debSize: 396322MD5sum: 64df482dac6b99bc3403bcc0740f8718SHA1: 9c746f524c3c29eb88de7ae702c96cbca162f577SHA256: 454641eb26c57ba35ad573a3a8493ac6dbd82f7920c8b926049ef892724147e0 [Read More]
xen  openxenmanager  openxencenter 

Laptop Mode Tools - 1.60

 Posted on October 14, 2011  (Last modified on January 31, 2013)  |  2 minutes  |  248 words  |  

Hello World, I am very pleased to announce the release of Laptop Mode Tools, version 1.60. This release includes lots of bug fixes and should make power savings much better on your machines.The battery polling daemon now, more reliably, gets triggered and killed based on power states. This release also includes 2 helper scripts to trigger suspend and hibernate, in case anyone is interested. Given the advancements of Linux PM ( All thanks to Rafael J. [Read More]
laptop-mode-tools 

Offline Package Manager - apt-offline

 Posted on August 19, 2011  (Last modified on August 19, 2021)  |  4 minutes  |  849 words  |  

//autoplay off Your browser does not support the video tag. A copy of this article is also available here This article is about Offline Package Management in Debian. Debian is a pretty well known project. One of the things that makes Debian very popular is APT (a.k.a Advanced Packaging Tool) which allows remote package downloads, upgrades and dependency resolution. Unfortunately it does require a network connection - unless you use apt-offline. [Read More]
apt-offline  apt-offline-gui 

File System corruption and Recovery

 Posted on August 16, 2011  (Last modified on November 12, 2014)  |  3 minutes  |  588 words  |  

So this is the 2nd time I ran into a problem like this again. My FAT32 file system on the external USB HDD, all of a sudden, started reporting: 00:47:32 rrs@champaran:/tmp$ sudo dosfsck /dev/sdb1dosfsck 3.0.9, 31 Jan 2010, FAT32, LFNLogical sector size is zero. I had been taking a lot of care to ensure that I don’t run into situation like this. No body likes losing data. The good part is that I’ve been lucky enough that, even without backups (now who’s gonna backup a backup disk), I have recovered all my data. [Read More]
ps3  fat  fat32  testdisk  data recovery 

MMA

 Posted on August 7, 2011  (Last modified on November 12, 2014)  |  3 minutes  |  432 words  |  

Wrestling (WWE) is entertaining. The way the ww[ef] superstars (Especially the ones like Undertaker, Triple H) are presented is fun to watch. Or the kind of high flying maveuveurs the wwf superstars are able to perform, it really is super cool. The only catch is - it is not a sport. The feuds are all pre- defined to juicen things up. I recently came to know of UFC. I hope some day they start airing it in my part of the world. [Read More]
playstation  game reviews  MMA 

Console Gaming - Sony Playstation 3

 Posted on July 6, 2011  (Last modified on November 12, 2014)  |  4 minutes  |  675 words  |  

I have been thinking of this topic for some time. I am a happy owner of the old Phat PS3 Model. At one time, I use to do a fair amount of gaming on my computers. So when Sony marketed the PlayStation 3 product, it was cool to see a machine that did: Gaming Movies, Music, Pictures Blu-Ray Ran Linux I convinced myself to buy a PlayStation 3, that I’d use it for playing with Linux apart from gaming. [Read More]
sony  ps3  playstation  move  the fight  sports champions  game reviews 

Fibre Channel over Ethernet - FCoE

 Posted on May 21, 2011  (Last modified on January 31, 2013)  |  1 minutes  |  70 words  |  

With the final package, [fcoe-utils](http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/fcoe- utils.html), clearing the NEW packages queue, the Open-FCoE project’s Fibre Channel over Ethernet stack is now in the Debian archive. I had anticipated to have access to FCoE hardware by the time the packaging would complete but that didn ’t work out. It has been delayed, hence the packages are in experimental. If you have access to FCoE hardware, please test and provide your feedback.

debian  fcoe  fc