From the gambas main site
No real new features in this release. But some of the fixed bugs were nasty:
* Possible crashes in the IDE property sheet and while saving forms.
* Crash in the debugger when selecting the “Collection” identifier.
* Automatic completion now works [...]
I’ve decided to make a stripped vanilla kernel for debian/ubuntu after seeing that the lean kernel from array.org has practically nothing stripped out.
For gaining performances, I compiled the kernel with the Core 2/Newer Xeon as Processor Family, removed every generic optimization, compiled statically some driver and change the IO scheduler to no-op (fifo is the [...]
On apt systems, there are three type of dependencies:
Dependant packages
Recommended packages
Suggested packages
The first are packages strictly needed for an application to work correctly (eg: for amsn, the tls library needed to login). The recommended packages are not needed, but they usually add features to the main application (eg: for gimp, the gimp-gnomevfs used to drag [...]
I don’t use Xandros nor Windows XP on my eeepc, and the Alt+F2 on boot utility seems to be very buggy at this moment.
The only one procedure i have found that works is creating an USB bootable pendrive of FreeDOS using unetbootin and to use the Asus DOS utility for flashing bios, reperible from their [...]
If you install a recent linux kernel (>2.6.18), the module supplied with the ebox-2300-sx won’t compile.
Here it is a patched version, simply replace it over the existing r6040.c in your kernel sources.
r6040 for ebox 2300-sx
A fast way to send binary data with telnet, is actually to use netcat instead of telnet:
We build a binary packet with an hexeditor, we save it in a file, and we send the file with netcat to the socket.
