Sony Vaio VPCZ11 with Kubuntu Oneric

Everything works except keyboard backlight. But this can be reenabled by calling:

sudo sh -c ‘echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/kbd_backlight’

SVN Hooks

Hi there, within a big php project you make typos. here is a small prehook script for svn that will actually prevent commits with several common and annoying mistakes:

  • Spaces in filenames
  • Spaces prior to the first <?php tag
  • PHP Short Tags
  • windows line endings

Kubuntu 11.04 Upgrade “no init found. try passing init= bootarg”

Hi there,

yesterday I did a small dist upgrade that actually bricked my system. The only thing I was able to reach was busybox which told me after invoking “sh init”

mount none failed for /dev, device busy
mount none failed for /sys, device busy

Booting from a Live CD showed that I was indeed able to mount the partitions without any trouble. Invoking update-grub or update-initramfs did’t improve the situation.

What finally worked was to disable the raid autodetect in grub:

raid=noautodetect

Thanks to that my system boots and I can finally work again on some real stuff :)

Runlevel Service Übersicht

Nettes Commandline Tool um die Runlevel aller Services zu bearbeiten.

http://www.liberiangeek.net/2010/05/how-to-start-stop-services-in-ubuntu-lucid-automatically/

Open

just read it – perhaps we’ll have a future where the customer will actually be able to use his/her handset with any os they choose.

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/12/its-not-rooting-its-openness.html