Monthly Archives: November 2008

Novell Leatherman

Posted on November 22, 2008 by martijn

Leatherman, originally uploaded by ./martijn. Received a Leatherman Micra from the friends over at Novell Communities. All that for submitting one or two short articles. Thanks guys. http://www.novell.com/communities/

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XEN dropped from Ubuntu 8.10 (server/desktop)

Posted on November 10, 2008 by martijn

With Ubuntu 8.10 it not possilble anymore to run Ubuntu 8.10 as Dom0 host. Ubuntu does not supply a suitable Kernel for this purpose. Of course it is possible to compile your own Kernel using the XEN patches from xen.org. … Continue reading →

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Force change password upon login

Posted on November 9, 2008 by martijn

With the following command you can force a user to change it’s password upon login on a Linux host: # chage -d 0 [user]

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OpenRedAlert

Posted on November 9, 2008 by martijn

1992 all over again with this re-written OSS game engine for RedAlert (linux/win32). http://code.google.com/p/openredalert/

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Nokia sync with Google Calendar

Posted on November 9, 2008 by martijn

I’m a big ScheduleWorld fan for some years now. I mainly use it to sync my Nokia N-series phone with my Google Calendar using SyncML. The additional Contacts to LDAP sync also comes in handy. I sync my phone over … Continue reading →

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Nomad

Posted on November 4, 2008 by martijn

Using RDP to control your Linux desktop sure sounds like a new approach to me Let’s see if this lowers the barrier for Linux adoption in Windows-environments. http://en.opensuse.org/Nomad Nomad has compositing manager extensions. So, desktop-effects (*xgl) should work over an … Continue reading →

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