Here is the fpm package compiled for Debian woody i386 compatible systems. Versions for other Debian releases can be found here. And here’s the diff. Please read the changelog entry for the backport contained inside the package in changelog.Debian.gz before installing - the package contains patches to make group sharing of password files possible. Enjoy! Tomas Pospisek Read on

Sourceforge seems to be having problems. Untill they are solved, you can find mailsync_4.5.orig.tar.gz here. The reference site for mailsync is at sourceforge. Debian packages, bugtracking etc. are at the Debian site. Enjoy! Tomas Pospisek Read on

Video The following steps were necessary to bring a Creative WebCam Pro eX up and running: Get the pwcx module (to have higher resolutions etc.) (the 2.4.20 module compiled with gcc 3.2 would work just fine, allthough I’m running 2.4.22 compiled with gcc 3.3.2) Install the pwcx driver under /lib/modules/usb so that the module won’t be erased on each new make modules_install. Compile and install kernel with the following options: Read on

Introduction Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, extensible, and portable. This class embeds the Ruby interpreter in a C++ application. Usage examples RubyEval& ruby = *RubyEval::instance(); ruby.eval("puts 'hello ruby'"); assert( NUM2INT( ruby.eval("1+1") ) == 2 ); assert(RubyEval::val2str(ruby.eval("'Regexp'.gsub(/x/, 'X')")) == "RegeXp"); Download Source tgz Class documentation Public Methods ~RubyEval () Read on

rawtest is a tool to test throughput to raw devices. A raw device is an alternative interface to a block device where the linux kernel will not buffer anything. See raw(8) for more info. To create a raw device first make an empty partition that is at least $BLOCKS large (see fdisk(8), cfdisk(8)). Then attach the raw device to that partition (see raw(8)). Finally run rawtest on it. ALL THE DATA ON SUCH A DEVICE WILL BE DESTROYED! Read on