Archive for October, 2005

bind mount in fstab

A good place to look if you want to figure out how to convert a command line mount to a fstab mount is /etc/mtab.

For example:

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debootstrap

I seem to be doing this a lot at the moment. So I’ve collected a few notes together as reminder of the process.

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Xen 3.0

Had a difficult week testing Xen 3.0 on my new v20z dual Operton machine.

Seems I was missing hotplug, which Xen 3.0 needs installed into domO in order to initialise the creation of block devices correctly. I’ll have more to report once I’ve got NX going, plus a 64bit domU guest.

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Being an open relay for a couple days


qmail-qstat
messages in queue: 15981
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0

Fscken spam.

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Real VGA mode on the PocketPC

While hunting for a combined headphone-mic headset for the hx4700 I discovered these useful pages about RealVGA mode on the PocketPC. One thing that’s annoyed me for a while is the large font in Microsoft Reader. Well now I have four times the screen real estate. Nice!

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Windows Mobile 5.0 Upgrade

Note to self, look out for the hx4700 version of the WM 5.0 upgrade at HP.

Reviews look good. Especially the comments about the persistent storage feature and battery life, 10-30% more battery life.

Sounds like buying a new PDA for only 40USD.

I’m pretty much only using the hx4700 as an ebook reader at the moment, haven’t had time to explore its other features. Once I get a chance I’ll see if I can integrating Tracks and the hx4700 calander, probably via vCal.

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Four Linux softphones reviewed

The review of four Linux softphones has a useful table of the various codecs and their bandwidth requirements.

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