Propritory software… such a pain

I recently got my 1.5 TB external storage(usb) unit, which i had planed to use as a shared datastore, between:

my laptop(Dell D630)(usually runs Gentoo, sometimes Debian-Lenny)
Sweta(my wife)’s laptop(MacBook Black running OS X Snow Leopard)
our desktop at home (runs Ubuntu(as of now), which im planning to move to Lenny too, as Ubuntu is [...]

Headless X setup with Debian(Lenny)

I recently did X on a headless Debian blade. This post is about the setup that worked for me. I used Xvfb to setup the virtual X frame-buffer. The usual choice for accessing virtual display is vnc, so i decided to go with x11vnc. Used blackbox as window manager for the setup(because it is believed [...]

Posted at 7:24 am on August 23, 2009 | 3 comments | Filed Under: GNU/Linux, Operating Systems, hacking, installation, problems, tools | Tagged: , , , , , | read on

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Janmejay Singh

I’m a developer/consultant working for ThoughtWorks. I primarily work on Ruby/JavaScript, Java and Lisp. I believe in Free Software philosophy and GNU project, and am generally interested in FOSS activities. Hacking is my hobby I get paid for pursuing it…..

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