Sigh, this morning I sent this to my debian AM and sponsor...
It has turned out that between a fulltime job and
being a father of 6 small children, there just
isn't enough time in the day to devote to
proper debian development.
Regretfully I have to remove myself from
consideration for the time being.
I still plan on contributing with doc writing,
bug reporting, etc.
-marc
Time to shop around for someone to take over maintaining the debian
package blosxom
This afternoon I need to burn some new Red Hat beta cds to some
testing. Time to install the cd roasting tools...
apt-get install cdrecord "http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=xcdroast&search
on=names&version=all&release=all">xcdroast mkisofs
I then had to manually insmod the usb stuff
insmod usbcore usb-uhci usb-storage
before
cdrecord -scanwould find my HP CD-Writer 8290 recorder.p>
Corporate field service came around and replaced the broken bottom
case of my laptop and debian boots. Yah! However running "find /
-name 'foo'" causes Linux to crash, and W2k doesn't even boot...
Field Service will eventually return to check it out. Until then and
an updated blosxom debian packagin
g and
genealogy will be on the back burner.
Damn.
My laptop took a header onto the floor and the corner of the case is
smashed up. If it is pressed back into shape, the monitor turns off
-- this makes it hard to type on.
Since the desktop configured just the way I like it as well as a
chroot debian/unstable environment for building debian packages I
wanted a way to get to the laptop from my other work (Compaq Deskpro
EN running Red Hat 8.0) and other home systems (specifically my wife's
Microsoft Windows 2000 laptop + cygwin).
The solution was to enable Xd
mcp on the laptop and then connect to
it from the other system's X servers. Here are the steps.
On the laptop which uses kdm, edit /etc/kde2/kdmrc and look for
the [Xdmcp] section and enable it. The line looks like this
[Xdmcp]
...
# Whether KDM should listen to XDMCP requests. Default is false for Debian.
Enable=true
...
Now edit /etc/kde2/kdm/Xaccess to allow access. Uncomment the two
lines that look like this:
...
* #any host can get a login window
...
* CHOOSER BROADCAST #any indirect host can get a chooser
...
You can tighten up security by enumerating all the systems you want
access from. Since both of the networks my laptop connects to (home
behind a NATting firewall and work's corpnet) are secure enough for me
so I didn't bother.
Now restart kdm on the laptop, "/etc/init.d/kdm restart"
From the linux desktop, startup X and have it connect to my laptop's XDMCP:
X -broadcast -query mylaptop.name :1
From the Microsoft Windows 2000 desktop that has cygwin installed,
startup X and have it connect to my laptop's XDMCP:
X -broadcast -query mylaptop.name :1
Performance is acceptable across WiFi.
I've created (well, heavily borrowed from
plugin,
I've been putting links to debian.org's package search engine in
debian laptop blog entries and this saves a ton of typing.
For example type <debpackage>blosxom</debpackage> to
get a link to the debian page for blos
xom.