nVidia on debian

First thing first:

$ vim /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install module-assistant

$ sudo m-a prepare

$ sudo m-a update

$ sudo m-a a-i nvidia

By now something should have gone wrong (*), so now fix it by using the nvidia driver from unstable:

$ sudo apt-get install -t unstable nvidia-kernel-source

Don't forget to remove old stuff

$ sudo apt-get remove nvidia-glx

Yeah for some reason driver for kernel 2.6.26-2-686 was pulled while uname returned: 2.6.30-bpo.1-686

So again clean it up:

$ sudo apt-get remove nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-2-686

Remove any old compilation binaries:

$ sudo m-a clean nvidia

Same player:

$ sudo m-a a-i nvidia

You should be all set now !

Now you can install

$ sudo apt-get install -t unstable nvidia-glx-dev

Cheers

Uploading file to sf.net is broken

I am following the instructions from:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Release%20files%20for%20download

So this give:

$ rsync -e ssh GDCM-2.0.14-Linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 GDCM-2.0.14-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz gdcm-2.0.14.tar.bz2 gdcm-2.0.14.tar.gz "malat,gdcm@frs.sourceforge.net:/home/frs/project/g/gd/gdcm/gdcm 2.x/GDCM 2.0.14"
ERROR: destination must be a directory when copying more than 1 file
rsync error: errors selecting input/output files, dirs (code 3) at main.c(600) [receiver=3.1.0dev]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (9 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(600) [sender=3.0.6]

this is not working, I had to do:

$ sftp malat,gdcm@frs.sourceforge.net
sftp> put GDCM-2.0.14-Linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
Uploading GDCM-2.0.14-Linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 to /home/pfs/project/g/gd/gdcm/gdcm 2.x/GDCM 2.0.14/GDCM-2.0.14-Linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
GDCM-2.0.14-Linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 100% 2876KB 1.4MB/s 00:02
sftp> put GDCM-2.0.14-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz
Uploading GDCM-2.0.14-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz to /home/pfs/project/g/gd/gdcm/gdcm 2.x/GDCM 2.0.14/GDCM-2.0.14-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz
GDCM-2.0.14-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz 100% 3215KB 1.6MB/s 00:02
sftp> put gdcm-2.0.14.tar.bz2
Uploading gdcm-2.0.14.tar.bz2 to /home/pfs/project/g/gd/gdcm/gdcm 2.x/GDCM 2.0.14/gdcm-2.0.14.tar.bz2
gdcm-2.0.14.tar.bz2 100% 2537KB 1.2MB/s 00:02
sftp> put gdcm-2.0.14.tar.gz
Uploading gdcm-2.0.14.tar.gz to /home/pfs/project/g/gd/gdcm/gdcm 2.x/GDCM 2.0.14/gdcm-2.0.14.tar.gz
gdcm-2.0.14.tar.gz 100% 3319KB 1.6MB/s 00:02
sftp> ^D


Sigh, this is an admin worse nightmare...

Private DICOM dictionary

Looking at the private dictionary for pydicom:

http://code.google.com/p/pydicom/

It says:

http://code.google.com/p/pydicom/source/browse/source/generate_dict/make_private_dict.py

...
# Generates output from a file from the MDCM project (http://code.google.com/p/mdcm),
...

The only issue is that mdcm is LGPL, while pydicom claims to be MIT... There is a clear conflict of license here.

So I filled in a bug report:

http://code.google.com/p/pydicom/issues/detail?id=61&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Milestone%20Owner%20Summary%20Difficulty

I cannot believe they prefered to used the dictionary from mdcm, instead of using the easy-to-parse XML dictionary from GDCM

http://gdcm.svn.sf.net/viewvc/gdcm/trunk/Source/DataDictionary/privatedicts.xml?view=markup

oh well...

2012: la fin du monde ?

Pas si sur, ca serait plutot 2220, d'apres cet article:

http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/10/26/1517242/2012-a-Miscalculation-Actual-Calendar-Ends-2220

-> http://www.natutech.nl/00/nt/nl/47/artikel/26050/Balen:_%272012%27_is_pas_over_twee_eeuwen.html

Postfix Gmail SMTP Relay

I was trying to setup postfix to relay email to my gmail account and found out:

http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/11/11/relaying-postfix-smtp-via-smtpgmailcom/

which is working, compared to a skrewed solution like:

http://bookmarks.honewatson.com/2008/04/20/postfix-gmail-smtp-relay/#comment-1154


Cheers

HAL Keymap Quirks

Today trying to start the wifi I discover things were not working as expected. Check this thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_thread/thread/a35291009da3f16d

So searching on the net for:

[ 446.068109] atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x88 on isa0060/serio0).
[ 446.068117] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e008 ' to make it known.


reveal this bug report on debian:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=475851

Which lead to this page:

http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-keymap-index.html

Bad luck, this is not working anymore and there is no redirect. Using web.archive I found this page:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080224232936/http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-keymap-index.html

Searching for keywords on this page, reveal that this page has moved to:

http://hal.freedesktop.org/quirk/quirk-keymap-index.html

Pheeww.... that was hard !

a.vim : Alternate Files quickly

There is a very cool vim script a.vim:

http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=31

However this script is really poorly documented, so I spend half an hour just to figure out how to add a special extension.

Easy:

let g:alternateExtensions_txx = "hxx,h,hh"

Well now how about t++ -> h++ ? Look easy, try it yourself !

Answer:

:so $HOME/.vim/plugin/a.vim
let g:alternateExtensionsDict['t++'] = "h++"