Posts Tagged ‘linux’

So I like to tinker with stuff like Kismet, build a wifi-lan, inject some packets, see what happens. You know, experiment a bit. To do so I got myself a nice high power wifi adapter to experiment with in a ‘controlled environment’. But when I wanted to scan the full range of channels and try [...]

A desktop full of handy widgets to tell you about what’s going on in the world and what’s going on around your computer. This is Jackfield. Jackfield is an application for the Gnome desktop that plays host to widgets; small applications to do the things you need. It can run widgets from Apple’s Dashboard, will [...]

XboxMediaCenter 4 Linux – prebuild

Posted: 30th May 2007 by Rick Deckardt in blogpost
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Voor diegene die de post op slashdot over XBMC voor Linux hebben gezien heb ik hier een build staan om mee prutsen. Het draait nog geen media, maar de MC360 skin werkt al wel.

VMWare guest timer problems – solved

Posted: 27th April 2007 by Rick Deckardt in blogpost
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If you use VMWare Server on a single CPU system w/ Linux  you can experience problems with a stuttering guest vm rtc, which even falls behind independent of the usage of the vmware tools package. It seems the problem comes from how hyperthreading is used by the OS’ scheduler in combination with a SMP kernel [...]