http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1478734 I couldn't get it to work. Eventually I installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS in a VM in Virtualbox and in there it worked. However, resolution is only 800x600. So I found this page: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php …

Goal: Be able to exit DWM and get back to the GDM - gnome login manager. To be able to hit MODKEY+SHIFT+Q, exit dwm and get me back to the login manager. Where I can chose another user or window manager. Or if I make a change in dwm …

Have been playing around with a new window manager (new as in for me, I've only used fluxbox, kde and gnome before) called DWM - see more information on www.suckless.org. I'm running it on a T400 with RHEL6 (which uses gnome login manager - gde). Basically if you want to …

xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources while true; do # BAT=$(acpi | awk '{ print $4 }' | sed s/","//g) CLK=$( date +'%H:%M') # xsetroot -name "$BAT | $CLK" xsetroot -name "$CLK" sleep 1 done | while true; do ~/bin/dwm; done Hello from future Johan, the above also looks super weird. Think these days I just run …

Had the opportunity to try out virtualbox the other day on RHEL. I really liked the part that the rpm that I downloaded was signed and I had to import the signature to be able to install the package! Feels safe. Install did not cause any other problems for me …

Another thing you will notice if you are used to debian is that RHEL has iptables enabled by default. To alter it you use the 'iptables' command. It is quite complex and there are good guides out there. If you just want to let http and ssh through you can …

You may have seen in my previous post about EyeOS that I tried many things to get time in sync on the virtual OS. It was drifting lots of time and after a few hours it was an hour behind. Google tells me this is quite common but I …

See my previous post for how to install it. A couple of days later and the time is still in synch. When I logged on there was a pop-up saying there were some updates. Put in root password and you get to see which are updates, the ones with a …

Test with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Download: Sign up for an evaulation on https://access.redhat.com/downloads/ rhel-server-5.6-x86_64-disc1.iso VMWare Workstation does find this in "easy install". Not doing that this time. 20GBdisk (default) and 1552MB RAM (default 1024MB) install in either graphical or text mode, going …