Linux / OSS

on 2008/08/19 by Michael, [EEE PC, Linux / OSS, blog]

Last night I started installing Ubuntu-EEE, but it left me with unsuable network connections (same as the standard edition of Ubuntu did). Thanks to the information in their wiki those problems has now been resolved, and I hope that the fixes will be included in a future release of the EEE (there shouldn’t be a [...]

on 2008/06/01 by Michael, [EEE PC, Linux / OSS, blog]

Now when I am back in Sweden I keep switching back and forth between Swedish and English keyboard layout, which is very inefficient and time consuming, and all of this because the Swedish alphabet has 3 extra characters (åäö). It all started out when I was looking for a way to switch keyboard layout on [...]

on 2008/03/25 by Michael, [Linux / OSS, Security, blog]

I’ve been starting to record some screencasts, and this is what I used on the Microsoft Windows platform: CamStudio was used to capture the actual area of interest. It can record the screen either to a avi or swf file, where I always go for the avi format as it is easier to deal with at [...]

on 2008/02/14 by Michael, [Cloudbook, Linux / OSS, blog]

Now it’s only a day left before the Cloudbook is supposed to be released, and I came across this interesting article in MikeCane2008 blog talking about Haiku. Haiku is a clone of the now defuncted BeOS operating system, and even if it is in alfa/beta stage it still beats the original BeOS on several points. However, [...]

on 2008/02/10 by Michael, [Cloudbook, Linux / OSS, blog]

As the Cloudbook will be shipping with the “gOS” Linux distribution, which is based on Ubuntu, I thought I should give it a spin before affirming my ideas of re-installing the Cloudbook (when I get it) with plain Ubuntu. I am having second thoughts on the re-installation part, but let’s start from the beginning. I went [...]

on 2008/01/30 by Michael, [Linux / OSS, blog]

I have created a Hackbook project at Google’s project hosting site where you can download current code using Subversion (I haven’t released anything yet). I’ve updated nmap and amap packages to their latest upstream release version, and I will continue to update and add security software to the repository. First on the list of software to [...]

on 2008/01/27 by Michael, [Cloudbook, Linux / OSS, blog]

Even though the Cloudbook is being delayed I waste no time getting up-to-speed with the development of the software for it. As described in an earlier post the Cloudbook will be my Hackbook, which has everything I need for everything from casual surfing to develop and demonstrate the latest security software and flaws to interested [...]