Video The following steps were necessary to bring a Creative WebCam Pro eX up and running: Get the pwcx module (to have higher resolutions etc.) (the 2.4.20 module compiled with gcc 3.2 would work just fine, allthough I’m running 2.4.22 compiled with gcc 3.3.2) Install the pwcx driver under /lib/modules/usb so that the module won’t be erased on each new make modules_install. Compile and install kernel with the following options: Read on

Introduction Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, extensible, and portable. This class embeds the Ruby interpreter in a C++ application. Usage examples RubyEval& ruby = *RubyEval::instance(); ruby.eval("puts 'hello ruby'"); assert( NUM2INT( ruby.eval("1+1") ) == 2 ); assert(RubyEval::val2str(ruby.eval("'Regexp'.gsub(/x/, 'X')")) == "RegeXp"); Download Source tgz Class documentation Public Methods ~RubyEval () Read on

rawtest is a tool to test throughput to raw devices. A raw device is an alternative interface to a block device where the linux kernel will not buffer anything. See raw(8) for more info. To create a raw device first make an empty partition that is at least $BLOCKS large (see fdisk(8), cfdisk(8)). Then attach the raw device to that partition (see raw(8)). Finally run rawtest on it. ALL THE DATA ON SUCH A DEVICE WILL BE DESTROYED! Read on

Overview Here are infos on how to tune Linux for better performance on the following hardware. It should apply to other machines than the specific Toshiba modell provided that some of your HW is the same. It is meant as a supplement to Enrico Segre’s page and jxh’s page that describe general configuration more in detail. Toshiba maintains quite good Linux pages. Useful tools are Jonathan Buzzard’s Toshiba Utilities, klaptop and apm. Read on

Trickle is a userspace bandwidth shaper. Debian’s unstable version can be found here. Below you can find trickle and the libevent library that it requires, compiled and build for the Debian “woody” release. The sources to trickle can be found at one of the two links above - no changes to the Debian version were required apart from a rebuid. trickle_1.06-1_i386.deb libevent0_0.6-5_i386.deb libevent-dev_0.6-5_i386.deb Enjoy! Tomas Pospisek Read on