Archive for the ‘Ubuntu’ Category

Wardriving using an Ubuntu 10.04 notebook and a Garmin Etrex

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

Most GPS software that ships with Ubuntu 10.04 uses gpsd to retrieve data from the GPS receiver. So make sure that you have gpsd installed. Unfortunately the new JSON protocol used by gpsd is not supported by some applications. You need to install ...

WDR 2 playlist GNOME panel applet

Thursday, November 25th, 2010

The applet retrieves the current playlist of the German WDR 2 radio channel and displays it in a GNOME panel. It can easily be modified to fetch and display other data from the web (e.g. playlists, headlines, weather) if you are familiar with regular expressions. Download: playlist_wdr2.tar.gz

Bypassing a cranky BIOS: boot from CDROM

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

After a major crash of our Acer Aspire 1642 the hard disk needed to be replaced. After booting from a life CD we successfully installed Ubuntu Gutsy on the new drive. Unfortunately, after reboot the BIOS appeared to be completely blind to it. A BIOS upgrade would not fix the ...