Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

Ghostscript Issues

Ghostscript in etch produces dodgy pdf files (at least on the 3 or 4 I’ve made). Current version is 8.15.1. PDF files work fine in Linux but not using acrobat reader on windows. However sarge seems fine. Ghost script version in sarge is 7.07.1 Hmm wondering if its a fault with GS 8, will have [...]

July 30, 2006 · robert · Comments Closed
Posted in: bugs, Software

WPA/IPW2200/Linux/Debian 3

After hearing about Network Manager on LugRadio at Guadec I decided to give it a go. A bit of messing around – including installing the version from Testing I found out I need a new kernel for WPA. Of I went and got 2.6.17 and compiled it. Things of Note: I had to use the [...]

July 6, 2006 · robert · Comments Closed
Posted in: Kernel, Networking, Software, Thumbs Up

Cacti

Just added another plug-in to cacti over the last couple of weeks – weathermap. Basically allows you to draw diagrams of you’re network, and it takes data from the rrd files and displays different coloured arrows show the percentage of the link used. Basically allowing you to see whats going on, on your network and [...]

July 2, 2006 · robert · Comments Closed
Posted in: Networking, Software, Thumbs Up, Work / Microsoft

Open Source & The NHS

The NHS as a whole doesn’t seem to use any open source, nor does it look like any will be coming (unless the likes of Java get GPL’ed) However at work we have started to look into Open Source. We currently have an every-growing Cati Install. Cacti is a great bit of software – at [...]

May 30, 2006 · robert · Comments Closed
Posted in: Networking, Software, Thumbs Up

Rockbox

Well I must take part of my last post back – it would appear the reason Rockbox was struggling was due to some corrupt files. I would still be nice if it could handle them slightly better and not caus playlist confusion – but now I know the reason behind it at least.

May 25, 2006 · robert · Comments Closed
Posted in: General, Software

Rockbox Update

The problems I have been having seem to be due to playlist corruption and nothing else. I may try another upgrade and see if this is fixed. As I am currently using small playlists this hasn’t been a real problem for the past few weeks. Another plus point I have discovered is it plays mp2 [...]

May 1, 2006 · robert · Comments Closed
Posted in: Hardware, Software

Rockbox

I’ve decided to give Rockbox a test on my iRiver H300. Initial impressions are good – the GUI is more responsive and playback is good. I like the replay gain feature and the crossfade looks promising (it sometimes produces some pops/click when switching between songs of different codecs at the moment). The upgrade was easy [...]

April 15, 2006 · robert · Comments Closed
Posted in: Hardware, Software, Thumbs Up

UPS

Just got myself an MGE Pulsar Evolution 1100 UPS. Well not all features appear to be supported in Linux (although as yet I don’t have a use for them even if they did work), things are looking promising with them relasing a bunch of linux stuff (inlcuding a pakage repositry for both debian and Ubuntu, [...]

November 27, 2005 · robert · Comments Closed
Posted in: Hardware, Software

sa-learn

I’ve just found out how effective sa-learn is at keeping out spam emails. Over the last week or so the number of spams reaching my mailbox was starting to reach stupid levels and once more outstripping the number of real mails to the point I was missing real emails for the spam. A little digging [...]

November 12, 2005 · robert · Comments Closed
Posted in: Software, Thumbs Up

/dev/dvb

Deleting /dev/dvb isn’t such a good idea when you want to use you’re TV card. I was mean to delete /dev/dvd but as I was tired I mispelt it and when it said its a folder thought nothing of it and stuck -r on the end of it. When it came to recording something funnily [...]

November 5, 2005 · robert · Comments Closed
Posted in: Software