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Hacking a Yacom / Orange ARV4518PW router
The spanish Ya.com ADSL connection comes with an ARV4518PW modem/router/access point. It looks like this: Unfortunately, the router configuration forces you to have an ADSL username ending in a domain like @yacomadsl, @orange, or a few other pre-defined domains. This is to prevent you from using the router with another ADSL provider. But, heck! We…
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Problems starting Eclipse
While trying to install a plugin, i’ve made some mess which resulted in Eclipse not starting, giving the following error in the log file: !SESSION Tue Nov 09 15:18:43 CET 2010 —————————————— !ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.launcher 4 0 2010-11-09 15:18:43.233 !MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform: !STACK java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205) at…
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Radeon Mobility M6 LY on Debian Squeeze
Upgrading from Debian Lenny to Squeeze, those having this old embedded video card (my laptop is an IBM Thinkpad R40) have found their video performance dropped. This is due to debian’s policy which produced the distribution of this video card’s firmware in a package that is not installed by default with the x.org driver. In…
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Limiting access to some users in vsftpd
If you want a subset of your users to have access to your vsftpd FTP server, edit /etc/vsftpd.conf adding the following: # Activate only users in /etc/vsftpd.enabledusers userlist_deny=NO userlist_enable=YES userlist_file=/etc/vsftpd.enabledusers The file /etc/vsftpd.enabledusers must contain the list of users enabled to access the FTP service, one per line. Be sure to also add the support…
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Making Wacom Bamboo Pen tablet work under Debian
I’ve been trying for days to make my brand new Wacom Bamboo (CTL-460) tablet work under Debian Squeeze. Finally, i wrote to the linuxwacom-discuss mailing list and Rebecca Breu pointed me to the solution. This tablet is supported by a driver powered by the linuxwacom project, which provides a kernel module (wacom.ko), a X.org driver…
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Recover data from a formatted NTFS partition
Shit happens. And you are the one that may make it happen. If you’ve never accidentally formatted a partition, typed a rm -rf ~ or deleted some file that you actually didn’t have to remove, it can happen to some of your friends (if you got idiot friends) or customers (if you got idiot customers).…
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Monochrome Qt fonts
Using Debian 5.0 i noticed a problem with Qt-based applications such as TexMaker, Skype, Qt-config itself and many more. All fonts were rendered bad, in a monochromatic flavour without any anti-aliasing. My solution to this was to regenerate the font cache. So, as normal user (no sudo!), try: fc-cache -f You may need to restart…
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Bad graphical behaviour with Nvidia GeForce 9200M GS
The following applies for those that, running a lspci, get: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 9200M GS] (rev a1) When trying to play a DVD or a divx movie at fullscreen, the image movement were not fluent, just like a 25fps movie played at 11fps. Similiarly, the 3D screen-savers were slow. Checking…
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Audio and wireless on a HP Pavilion dv6-1060
This post has been updated since something changed (yeah, the audio out jack now works great!) Making both the wireless connection and the audio board work on a HP Pavilion DV6-1060el with Debian Lenny (currently stable) and Squeeze (currently testing) needs a small effort. This is due to 2 reasons: first, the linux kernel up…