Monthly Archives: August 2010

qemu monitor cd change

Posted on August 30, 2010 by swift

I’ve been playing around with kvm (which uses qemu) to try out other operating systems and Linux distributions. Up until now, little progress on that part (not because it is difficult, just little time) but there are a few things … Continue reading →

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Added “iw” support to Linux Sea

Posted on August 26, 2010 by swift

The wireless driver developers are actively working on a new wireless toolset called “iw”, slowly deprecating the older wireless-tools toolset (which contains the “iwconfig” command). Kasumi_Ninja reported to me in the Gentoo Forums that it would be nice to add … Continue reading →

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cvechecker 0.4 released

Posted on August 25, 2010 by swift

Albeit with less updates than 0.3 had, cvechecker 0.4 brings in internal project files reorganization (more to the liking of the GNU autoconf/automake standards – I think), fixes a databaseleak (instead of memoryleak ;-) bug and introduces a teenie weenie … Continue reading →

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I remain impressed by the free software community

Posted on August 25, 2010 by swift

My current personal projects, Linux Sea and cvechecker, are actively being watched by the free software community. For the Linux Sea book, I get nice feedback and ideas on the Gentoo Forums and on the cvechecker application, people such as … Continue reading →

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cvechecker userguide

Posted on August 22, 2010 by swift

Just a quick note, I’ve created and uploaded the cvechecker userguide.

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cvechecker 0.3 released

Posted on August 20, 2010 by swift

Time for a new intermediate cvechecker release, so here it is. Changes include (beyond the usual bugfixes) different CSV output (with some sort of version support) so that it can be easily used for reporting purposes, removal of debugging/verbose items … Continue reading →

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cvechecker 0.2 released

Posted on August 16, 2010 by swift

I’ve made version 0.2 available of cvechecker. It fixes some build warnings and also supports the normal “make install” step. The pullcves command now also pulls in the latest versions.dat file. Special thanks to Per Andersson for reporting that the … Continue reading →

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cvechecker 0.1 released

Posted on August 14, 2010 by swift

cvechecker version 0.1 is out. This is the first publicly available development release, so it’s still far from production-ready yet. However, it is usable so it can now be publicly analyzed to remove all icky bugs and such. I’m not … Continue reading →

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HP webcam on Linux

Posted on August 13, 2010 by swift

Okay, getting the HP webcam running on Linux wasn’t hard at all. Enable Video For Linux (CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV) which can be found in the Linux kernel configuration at Device Drivers, Multimedia Support. Then, select Video capture adapters and inside that menu, … Continue reading →

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New laptop, time to play

Posted on August 13, 2010 by swift

I gave myself a nice treat and bought a new laptop. After some consideration, I decided to go with the HP Pavilion DV7 3150EB. Years ago, I didn’t take an HP laptop as the reviews were not that satisfying. However, … Continue reading →

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