Virtualization With KVM On A Debian Squeeze Server

A nice how-to for KVM and libvirt on Debian Squeeze:

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Sharing A Wireless Connection Via Ethernet Port

One of the challenges in Installing Debian on a thin client PC was that the venue had a guest wireless network, but no wired network, and clearly these thin client devices did not have wireless capability.

Mike sorted this out by setting up IP forwarding on his laptop, so that we had a wired network which used his wireless connection as a gateway. I knew this was technically possible, but I had not actually seen it done before.

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Installing Debian On A Thin Client Pc

This Saturday I attended the Surrey Linux User Group meeting held at Sirius in Addlestone. Mike Judd of Akuna Group brought along a number of thin client PCs, along with monitors, keyboards, mice and a switch and set a challenge for attendees to attempt to install Linux on them.

The thin clients were IGEL thin clients with 1GB RAM and 1GB transcend flash card. The RAM is plenty for Linux, so the main challenge was keeping the installation under 1GB, when modern Linux distros are probably 6gb or so.

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Google Chrome Flash Plug In Blocked

Google Chrome started stating “The Flash plug-in was blocked because it is out of date.”.

To fix this I entered “about:plugins” in the address bar, and clicked “disable” against Flash. This results in Google Chrome falling back on the version of Flash installed in the operating system. If you do not have Flash installed, then in Debian you can install as follows:

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Three Things I Love About Pekwm

Three things I love about pekwm:

Window grouping: I love the fact that you can middle click on a window’s titlebar and drop it onto another window and the two windows join together - with the titlebar split in segments. You can switch between the applications by clicking on the relevant part of the titlebar, or use the Windows key with TAB - so just as Alt+Tab switches between windows, Windows+Tab switches between the applications grouped inside the current window.

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Pekwm With Tint2 Panel

I have just been recommended to try the “tint2” panel. It looks lovely and minimalist, and has happily taken the kwalletmanager system tray icon; so hopefully will work on my laptop with battery and wireless monitors.

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KDE Power Management In Pekwm

After my laptop spontaneously switched off on two separate occasions, because I had failed to switch on the mains socket, I decided that something had to be done about the lack of power management in pekwm.

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Thirty Years On popey.com Blog

Apparently the ZX81 is 30 years’ old, wow.   The wedge-shaped box that started my interest in computers, and led inexorably to my love of Linux and tinkering with the command-line.

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Kubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 Nvidia Installation

After updating my Kubuntu Mythbuntu Home Theatre PC, it failed to boot into KDE, leaving me instead at a text login.  Fixing the problem was not difficult, but I actually had problems finding the correct instructions, and all the instructions that I did find left out a crucial step.  I thought I would write up what I did largely for my own benefit:

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Full Text For RSS Feed Not Just Teaser

I wanted to change my blog so that the home page only has an opening paragraph of each blog post, rather than having the full text.  In my opinion this makes the blog easier and more pleasant to navigate.  Unfortunately it seems that in trying to achieve this, I changed the RSS feed as well.

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