Author: Søren

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Dell to Offer Ubuntu

Dell to Offer Ubuntu

Som ovenstående link fortæller så har Dell og Canonical (firmaet bag Ubuntu) indgået en aftale om at levere Dell desktop og laptop pc’er med Ubuntu styresystemet præ-installeret (i modsætning til at levere dem med Windows). Som jeg læser det er det indtil videre forbeholdt Dell’s kunder i USA, men fra mit synspunkt er det helt sikkert et skrit i den rigtige retning. Specielt hvis Dell ligger sig i selen for at sikre sig at der faktisk er fuld driver understøttelse under Linux på de solgte systemer. Det andet springende punkt bliver hvor stor besparelse der bliver for kunderne ved at vælge Ubuntu frem for et Windows styresystem. Men alt det vil tiden vise.

ps. På denne side (fra Dell) kan man se et interviews med Mark Shuttleworth (Canonicals stifter). Halvejs inde i interviewet er en dame ved at gå ind i lokalet. Sådan noget kan selvfølgelig ske, men det var nok ikke sket under et interview med Steve eller Bill…

Fredags Rock i Tivoli

Jeg har været til Fredags Rock i Tivoli de sidste par fredage. Dette blogindlæg skal dog ikke handle om hvor god / dårlig musikken var… nej, dette indlæg skal se fremad!

Jeg har årskort og regner med at besøge Fredagsrock rigtig mange gange i år. Men jeg er altså ikke gode venner med Tivolis hjemmeside, specielt ikke at finde frem til deres Fredagsrock kalender (den kan dog findes her).

Så jeg har sat mig ned (nej, jeg havde ikke noget bedre at tage mig til i dag…) og skrevet alle dem der spiller ind i min elektroniske kalender.

Long story short, her er iCal filen (.ics) for Fredags Rock 2007, det kan jo være at andre også vil finde den nyttig:

Tivoli2007.ics

Så er det lidt lettere at planlægge sine kommende fredage så man når at høre Rasmus Nøhr, men slipper for at befinde sig i Tivoli når Niklas og Jannik spiller (eller omvendt, hvad ens musiksmag nu dikterer).

BOINC 64 bit

I have been playing around with BOINC the last couple of days. It took me some time to figure out a couple of things though.

My laptop runs 64 bit which can be a problem with some of the projects using Boinc. Einstein@Home (as well as many other projects) doesn’t support 64 bit. So with a standard install I would get error messages looking like this one:

Message from server: platform 'x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' not found

There is (as always) a fix – this should work in general, but I have for obvious reasons only tried it on my own Ubuntu laptop. First you need to be able to run 32 bit applications. This is done by installing ia32 libraries:

sudo aptitude install ia32-libs

Then you have to tell the Boinc client to request work as if it was a 32 bit pc. This is done by shutting down the boinc client

sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client stop

and then, in the file /var/lib/boinc-client/client_state.xml replacing the line

<platform_name>x86_64-pc-linux-gnu</platform_name>

with this one:

<platform_name>i686-pc-linux-gnu</platform_name>

and start the Boinc client again

sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client start

Another option is to put your 64 bit processor to use and work on some of the projects that actually support 64 bit…
Here is a list of projects supposed to have native 64 bit applications (I have only tried ABC@home my self):

Of course the two options above does kind of exclude each other. I have not found a way to report one platform to some projects and another platform to others. It would seem nice with a ‘fallback’ platform to be reported if the x86_64 fails, but maybe that will come in the future. On the other hand it seems like a good idea to use only optimized applications on 64 bit hardware. The last approach is the one I’m using currently.
You can see my progress here:


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Eksamen i morgen?!?

I morgen omkring denne tid skal jeg op til mundtlig eksamen i streng teori. Jeg er endnu ikke helt færdig med læsningen men af mærkelige årsager er jeg faktisk ikke specielt nervøs. Det plejer jeg ellers at være, men det kan jo være at jeg nu efter milliard million års skolegang endelig har vændet mig til eksamener. Det er ikke til at vide.

I øvrigt er klistermærkerne vendt tilbage og jeg bor endnu en gang på Jagtvej. (Jeg burde virkelig få mig et ordentligt kamera snart, så jeg kan få lidt mere liv og billeder på bloggen her…)

Nå, tilbage til bøgerne

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released

I’m not running Debian currently, but it does have a special place in my heart. Debian was one of the first Linux distributions that I ran on a more permanent basis and my current Linux distribution, Ubuntu, is based largely on the work of the Debian community.

So, I guess what I want to say is a warm welcome to Debian Etch and a big congratulations to all the volunteers who made it happen.

I byen I Vejle

Onsdag aften var jeg (efter en lidt kølig MC tur fra København til Vejle) i byen i Vejle med min lokale ‘guide’ og nogle af hans venner.

Der var mere gang i Vejles natteliv end jeg egnetlig havde forventet – men man har jo som Snobbet Københavner Snude lov til at blive glædeligt overrasket over provinsen.

Vi var bl.a. på Den Knæhøje som var en hyggelig lille bar med rigeligt påskebryg på fad.

The man with the plan!

I have an exam in two weeks. In string theory… I have a wonder full study plan laid out, so I am in fact the man with the plan. It really is a good plan – only problem is that I’m already behind…

Yesterday I joined David and about 10.000 other motorcyclists in the annual opening of Bakken. It was my first time but hopefully not the last. There were a lot of really nice bikes there and the weather was really good! I’m sure the good weather was part of the reason for the really big turnout. Unfortunately I still don’t have a decent camera, so I didn’t get to take any pictures, but a lot of others have. Here is the best a quick search of the web returned to me so far if you would like to see a lot of bikes:

http://nyhederne.tv2.dk/article.php/id-6539206.html
http://www.motorcykelgalleri.dk/html/alb_vis.asp?AlbumID=1177