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Safe shutdown using an ATX power button

For Gentoo Linux, do the following (adjust where necessary):

0. Make sure you have an ATX board and a power button ;)

1. Make sure your kernel has support for ACPI (either built-in or as modules)

2. # emerge acpi acpid

3. # rc-update add acpid default

4. for kernel 2.6 (skip this step if ACPI support is compiled into the kernel):
# echo “ac” >>/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
# echo “button” >>/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6

5. add parameters apm=off and acpi=on to your kernel boot line (e.g. in /boot/grub/menu.lst)

6. # reboot

(Source: Linux für alle. Thanks to maol for the pointer; other interesting articles: Server shutdown via Apache [Caution!], LaTeX Business cards)

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DriverGuide.com

DriverGuide.com

Let’s face it, finding the right device driver can be a tedious, time consuming, often impossible task! The Driver Guide was created to make finding driver updates a whole lot easier. With the help of thousands of our members, we have compiled a massive database archive of drivers and resources that is by far the largest and most comprehensive on the Web.

ACK! :)

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Philemon chess program

An interesting project by Dominik (Philemon) Käser:

Philemon (alternative URL), a chess program with a strength of about 2000 ELO.

Nice, concise assembly of information about chess algorithms (in German only). Source code is available for download (I can’t find any licensing information though).

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Test of the Motorola MPx

En français et en détail :)

Mobinaute

Rough translation of the love/hate list:

love:
+ form factor
+ dimensions
+ weight
+ colors of the PDA in the night with the buttons of the external/cover screen and the keyboard
+ simultaneous WiFi and Bluetooth connection
+ external/cover screen and its functionality

hate:

– sd card difficult to insert
– no integrated backup software
– changing the sim requires removal of the battery
– CPU is too slow
– autonomy [battery life] is bad
– PPC Phone Edition only offers minimum phone functionality

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Some pictures of the Swiss Firefox 1.0 release party in Zurich/Switzerland

I’ve uploaded a couple of pictures of the Swiss Firefox 1.0 Release party in Zurich/Switzerland. Additional, password-protected pictures (as people are recognizable) and 2 short movie clips can be accessed using received credentials (login by clicking on [login], then click on the appearing nested album).

Kudos to the organizers of the party: http://www.andrist.org/ /
http://www.openforce.at/mozparty2/?party=388!

And thanks a lot to all the devs and contributors of Mozilla Firefox 1.0, the best web browser ever :)