Sometimes I have the need to restore GRUB as bootloader. This especially happens after a Windows installation/upgrade.

Anyway, I wanted to document (and share) and easy method for doing just this. Reason: I found it hard to find on the internet. If it turns out to be useful for you... then it would be nice if you leave a short (friendly) comment.

Here we go.

A lot has been said already about whether mono is safe, if it is from Microsoft, if it is a good language, if it is... well, all has been said I think. Personally I have no real objections against mono, but that it gives me another 100MB of download and that I have the feeling that it slows down my computer, especially on my eeepc. One more reason to not want a flame war... read this.

Quite some time since I wrote something in my blog. This time I want to share a small story and I believe/expect that most of the future blog articles will be influenced by this.

So... after 5 years of full time Debian/Ubuntu I switched to Arch linux!

I have a nice computer that is connected to a touch screen. For this to nicely work I wanted to automatically start a Xwindows session and to automatically login a user. Furthermore, I wanted it to start some programs automatically as well.

Again a blog post to make sure my mind can remember what needs to be done... in case I want to update a drupal installation. As a source I used the video on http://www.masteringdrupal.com/screencast/upgrading-to-drupal-6. The text below is a summary of that video.

Note:
If you want to upgrade from drupal 4.x, then first upgrade to 5.x. Only then start to follow this guide.

Some advice

Let us start with some well meant advice:

Hi there again. This time I will install git (source code versioning system) on a Debian Lenny server. In my case it is in a virutaul machine on xen. However, there should be no difference with different environments.

Well, basicaly I followed the instruction on this link:

This guide describes the way I intalled my home server. The server is a Debian Lenny installation containing a variaty of virtual servers. The virtualisation is done by xen. This guides describes the proceses needed, commands issued and so on.

Good luck!

These notes describe how to install the ELO 1747 touchscreen with a serial interface in Debian Lenny (and probably Ubuntu 8.04 as well). The description provided by ELO is good, but misses some details and is hard to read. Therefore this guide here.

Note that most information is from the README that comes with the ELO driver!

Step 1

First download the driver source here. Extract them and put them somewhere, where you can find them.

If you are running Debian and have lost track of which packages you are running, it could be useful to get a backup of your currently installed packages. You can get a list by running:

dpkg --get-selections > debianlist.txt

This will put the entire list in debianlist.txt. You could then install the same packages on a different computer with: