Monthly Archives: August 2005

Looks like it’s fairly easy to be able to use your own copy of OpenOffice.org 2 beta2 on Debian testing. OpenOffice comes only packeged in unstable at the present time, or for RPM-based distributions. But it’s easy to install the … Continue reading →

Following the previous installs on D505 or D510 machines, this time I tried to install Debian on a D810 machine of another collegue… And that was a little bit painfull, and not everything works, but we have at least achieved … Continue reading →

I’ve managed to install a Debian sarge on the Dell latitude D510 laptop of one of my collegues. Fedora Core 4 shoud work flawly but I didn’t want to use that distro… but it may be helpful as a comparison … Continue reading →

For a while, I’ve been using my USB key to store sensitive informations such as my private keys or passwords. I’m using a loop-aes encrypted partition image stored in a file on my USB key, which is automatically mounted whenever … Continue reading →

I guess it’s time to provide again more details on what happens with my laptop … Last time, I said in my previous post : This time I can for sure say that there is a problem with the hardware, … Continue reading →

I was so happy to have a new laptop to test and install… but now I’m really pissed : the laptop crashes for some unknown reason. It looks like there was an immediate shutdown (like cutting off the power), in … Continue reading →