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20 Years of the Linux Operating System

vevmesteren — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:05:40 +0000

Jolly (updating) season

vevmesteren — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:04:35 +0000

So the new Ubuntu is here. And as the release candidate is now available I went for the update. Again, I am stunned at how good this OS is, and how many people that are still living in ignorance, when it comes to linux.

One thing that was annoying, was that my GRUB (which allows me to choose which OS I want to boot [Ubuntu, Win or OS X]) broke after updating.

So I thought a little written instruction to fix it might be helpful for anyone else that runs into this problem.

What you need: Ubuntu 9.10 (or 10.04) installer CD

Boot up your computer using the Ubuntu Install CD
Select ” Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer “
Once the OS is good and ready start Terminal ( Application > Accessories > Terminal )
Type “sudo -i” to enter into root mode
Run “fdisk -l” to see all of your partitions and hard drives on your machine
Look for the /dev/ entry identified as Linux not to be confused with the swap partition
Now to create a mount-point for your partition type “mkdir /media/root“
Now mount the identified partition into it by typing “mount /dev/sda# /media/root” (sda# being the partition identified in step 6)
Confirm your root location by typing “ls /media/root” and ensuing that you see something resembling this:

bin dev initrd.img lib32 media proc selinux tmp vmlinuz
boot etc initrd.img.old lib64 mnt root srv usr vmlinuz.old
cdrom home lib lost+found opt sbin sys var
bin dev initrd.img lib32 media proc selinux tmp vmlinuzboot etc initrd.img.old lib64 mnt root srv usr vmlinuz.oldcdrom home lib lost+found opt sbin sys var
If all is well in point 9 install GRUB to the boot partition by typing “sudo grub-install –root-directory=/media/root /dev/sda” which should return

Installation finished. No error reported. This is the contents of the device map /media/root/boot/grub/device.map. Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect, fix it and re-run the script `grub-install’. (hd0) /dev/sda

You are ready to reboot.
If only your Linux partions are showing, do not worry. Boot up your OS, open up terminal again, and run “sudo update-grub2” that should do the trick.

and with that, I whish you a jolly updating season

Adobe supports Linux?

vevmesteren — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:36:37 +0000

There are close to 30 million Linux users out there by now. And I would be willing to take quite the bet that many of them, myself included, are developers. Be it web- as well as application- developers. It baffles me how a company like Adobe, who does have a nice project going in labs.adobe.com, can make so little efforts in porting their products to Linux. A buggy Flash Player. There is an attempt to create Linux friendly Flex Builder, which I thought I’d give a whirl, since I spent my last week or so at work with t Flex Builder really compile times it gave for a fairly large site. Why not try this at home, I told myself. The Linux Flex Builder being free and all…but now it turns out that the Flex Builder they are pushing a version that does not even run on 64Bit OS. What a downer.

Just a thought…

Revolution OS

vevmesteren — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:46:52 +0000

REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against the proprietary software model and Microsoft to create GNU/Linux and the Open Source movement.

Revolution OS – Movie Site

Ubuntu 9.10 is here

vevmesteren — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:58:58 +0000

I have to admit, that I did not manage to hold out and updated when the release candidate was ready last week. But now it’s official, the even faster Karmic Koala is packed, ready and good to go. And ‘go’ it does. Faster then ever. I am with Ubuntu since 5.10 and have never looked back…
I can do everything that I did before, I game, I program, I surf (wirelessly always – there is an evil rumor about Linux/Wireless troubles). And all that in the knowledge that my files and my operating system are safe. I can adapt the OS to my own needs, wants and moods. And on a side note, that might some less, but I have learned my way around Terminal which in turn has given me the ability to manage my servers directly through SSH. What can I say…I am a geek, and I’m lovin’ it.

Try out the LiveCD option which loads the entire operating system into your computers memory for voyeurism sake…

Get your free Ubuntu now…

Windoze Seven

vevmesteren — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:31:34 +0000

Congratulations Microsoft on the newest release of Windows.
Some error messages for your consideration:

Smash forehead on keyboard to continue.
Press any key to continue or any other key to quit.
BREAKFAST.SYS halted… Cereal port not responding.
Close your eyes and press escape three times.
File not found. Should I fake it? (Y/N)
Runtime Error 6D at 417A:32CF: Incompetent User.
Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue.
Bad command or file name! Go stand in the corner.
Windows message: “Error saving file! Format drive now? (Y/Y)”
Windows VirusScan 1.0 – “Windows found: Remove it? (Y/N)”

At least it’s better then Vista
Microsoft announces 20 editions of Windows 7!

Or just go with Ubuntu 9.10

I found my mountain

vevmesteren — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:34:59 +0000

A few months ago I read a post about the future of AMFPHP and decided to start looking for alternate back-end solutions that I want to explore and implement in future productions. PYAMF quickly crystallized as the best candidate. I am especially impressed by the speed of data-transfer that this solution promises.

As I was already playing around with my pyamf installation, I saw that the new (and very impressive) site of the National Film Board of Canda is built on the very same technology. But there is another component, Django. Since I, admittedly have close to no experience to working with Python, I am really starting from scratch. Taking it one step at a time. So far I am through setting up Python, mod_python and installing django itself. So now I am setting up my very first Django app.
Once I have wrapped my head around the basics of the wonderful world of Python and Django, then the time will have come to integrate that new knowledge with pyamf. I will be posting my progress in easily digestible pyamf tutorials (with a touch of django), since I see that there is a desperate lack there-off so far. I do not mean to step on any toes over on pyamf.org, but the documentation/tutorial section leaves a thing or two to be desired. So, at least for me, the initial learning curve seems rather steep to me.

But then again, that’s just me…

Be Linux

vevmesteren — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:25:20 +0000

My friend, the Bear (who likes to be called Simon, as it is less scary he guesses), sent me this ad this morning.

BBC pictures, once again, put to a good use…

more Linux ads here

ASDT Part II

vevmesteren — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:10:25 +0000

Well the revival is a success, at least on my ubuntu it is. In installed the ASDT. Also browsed the WIKI and am seeing quite a few things on the todo list that exite.

Hat of to the developers, I am tickled pink.

good tidings…

vevmesteren — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:40:01 +0000

Many days have passed, a year I believe since ASDT showed any sign of life. Today, as so often every now and then, I was once again frustrated by the Flash IDE (which I run through Wine in Ubuntu) built in AS editor. So while we wait for something better from Macromedia (sorry Adobe off course) I looked around. As usual SEPY, FD, FDT, Google and a variety of forums where my primary targets of inquiry. But then I thought, why not check out good old trusted ASDT. An AS editor I was using a lot, until it kind of died down. Well I was not actually aware of it dying as such, but the site just did not show any signs of life. So I had kind of given up on it. To my great surprise, I found three new posts on the site. Oh joy!

So I reinstalled it and am, somewhat, up and running. I am still having some troubles with the core libraries, but I am sure that is nothing what a bit of digging cannot fix. As of yet I have found that it is important to add the core libraries to the Workspace Preferences.
As of yet I have only been able to add the Flash8 libraries, so I am missing my mx.* .

But I am certain that I will get there…

a suivre