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Tue, 26 Jun 2007

WebSec ASCII Markers
Category: Dev

Joey reported that websec failed him for reading modifications in web pages when reading the generated mails in a text mail agent. I wanted to point out that websec has ASCII marker support to highlight changes in text for this purpose exactly. This feature was implemented by Javier M. Mora.

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Tue, 19 Jun 2007

The Easy Way to have ATI in Debian
Category: Debian

Unfortunately I have an ATI display card in my laptop, it is a wide screen laptop and so far I used the 1024x768 resolution instead of the native 1280x768. Some girl (sorry, forgot your name and you're not in mugshots) prodded me to fix that since my screen looked pretty warped. Today I finally got to do it and install fglrx to get my native resolution working and boy, is it a change!

The ingredients for this recipe:

  1. A computer with ATI display driver
  2. Debian unstable (though testing and etch should work as well)
  3. A network connection

Instructions:

  1. su -
  2. aptitude install fglrx-control fglrx-driver fglrx-driver-dev fglrx-kernel-src modula-assistant linux-headers-2.6-686
  3. m-a -t auto-install fglrx
  4. aticonfig -f --install
  5. Restart X, you can do it with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, or just restart the computer
  6. Enjoy the beautiful new look of your desktop!

If you are using an AMD machine replace the linux-headers-2.6-686 with linux-headers-2.6-k7.

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