kennywest

Yesterday our twins were born around 9u50 CET. Underneath you can see a picture of the proud mother and our 2 lovely sons. Mother and sons are doing well. And yes, the name Nils was inspired by Linus Torvald's father :)

Even though the recent changes in Sun's licensing, for distributing the jdk as a package, allows Ubuntu to provide prepackaged jdk's, I couldn't find a package for my Dapper install. On the dutch Ubuntu forums there was someone asking for a package for jdk 6u2, so I decided to give him a hand. This is the procedure that will work on Dapper, Edgy and Feisty: sudo apt-get install java-package now edit: gksudo gedit /usr/share/java-package/sun-j2sdk.sh search this section: "jdk-1_5_0_" [ 0-9 ][ 0-9 ] "-linux-i586.bin" ) # SUPPORTED j2se_version= 1 . 5 . 0+update ${archive_name : 10 : 2 } j2se_expected_min_size= 130 found= true ;; esac ;; make it look like this: "jdk-1_5_0_" [ 0-9 ][ 0-9 ] "-linux-i586.bin" ) # SUPPORTED j2se_version= 1 . 5 . 0+update ${archive_name : 10 : 2 } j2se_expected_min_size= 130 found= true ;; "jdk-6u" [ 0-9 ] "-linux-i586.bin" ) # SUPP

In one of my last posts the other year I was complaining about my struggle fixing Debian after performing an upgrade while following the "testing" branch. Seems all the hassle I've been through, finally paid of. My upgrade to "etch" has been a very smooth transition. Since I was feeling adventurous, I decided to upgrade my vanilla kernel as well. The machine was running a vanilla 2.6.15.4 kernel which was becoming a little outdated. So I decided to take my chance compiling the most recent 2.6.22.3 kernel. Configuring and compiling was easy, but after a necessary reboot, iptables NAT and masquerading seemed b0rken. After googling a little bit, I discovered that the Netfilter people did a bit of refactoring in the modules and options necessary for NAT and masquerading. After enabling -> Networking -> Networking support (NET [=y]) -> Networking options -> Network packet filtering framework (Netfilter) (NETFILTER