XceptN’s Tech Stuff

Cisco VPN Client 4.8 and Recent Linux Kernel Versions

I have been playing with this for some time .. Below are patches over Cisco VPN client 4.8 rev 490 some are compiled from around and some are my own ports (especially for 2.6.24+ ): For 2.6.18 based kernels (OEL/RHEL/CentOS 5), download and apply vpnclient-4.8-2.6.18-XceptN.patch on your vpnclient build directory. e.g.: # wget -q http://xceptn.com/patches/vpnclient/vpnclient-4.8-2.6.18-XceptN.patch…

internet

xulrunner and firefox

For especially Firefox 3.0 (beta) be sure that your xulrunner packageis intact.. Otherwise firefox will not work at all / or at leastappropriately.

desktop

Motorokr e6 and synchronization on Linux

Although this good looking, nice PDA phone run Linux OS, the sync SW (PhoneTools) does not seem to be available for linux. I now have the idea of MultiSync (http://multisync.sourceforge.net/)with evolution and syncml plugins .. I need to have a local USB networksetup and that should work … The local USB works nice but well…

linux

Reading for Linux Kernel internals

It is really nice to read “Understanding the Linux Kernel” by Bovet & Cesati (O’Reilly).. Strongly advised..

development

The vm.swappiness Parameter in Linux 2.6 Kernels

The vm.swappiness parameter for Linux 2.6 kernels is based on a scalefrom 0 to 100. The default is 60 and it is known to serve Oracle RDBMSrelated workloads statistically the best. The swappiness definedby this parameter, is for a raw and general priority paging. This isabout prioritizing the page-out of pages from anonymous vs. file-backedmemory….

kernel

Cisco VPN Client 4.8 and Recent Linux Kernel Versions

xulrunner and firefox

Motorokr e6 and synchronization on Linux

Reading for Linux Kernel internals

The vm.swappiness Parameter in Linux 2.6 Kernels

Building Binaries from Sources

Adding Java plugin to Firefox

How to do find and execute .. An example

Where is the application menu files on EL

backup the mbr