When Gustavo González and I started writing QAntenna, one of the ideas we had is to write a Smith chart in order to be able to plot the frequency sweep of the antennas. We looked for similar libre software programs and we found linsmith (wich happened to be maintained for …

Dear lazy web [0] : Well, I am really in need of learning how to hack embedded systems. But the task with more priority is to learn how to write drivers (modules) for Linux. So, my dear lazy web, could you please tell me which books/resources did you find useful …

Today I had to set up a multifunction printer, namely the Lexmark x1150. I had already installed it under a 32 bits Debian install, following this howto, but it won't work with a 64 bits one. The problem was with rastertoz600, which showed: ./rastertoz600: error while loading shared libraries libcupsimage …

(That title seems that I am shouting...) We (well, more precisely Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers' list) received a bug report about vfat devices with UTF-8 being mounted as case sensitive filesystems. I was trying to see what could be done, but as usual, Sune "pusling" Vuorela is much faster than …