use the source luke

I just bought a ASRock ION 330 and had some problems installing the NDAS driver with Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10. It seems that the NDAS source doesn’t compile very well on the kernel shipped with Ubuntu 9.10. Luckily I found some patched packages for AMD64 when browsing through the wiki at http://code.ximeta.com. I really didn’t put much faith in that it would work, but surprisingly it worked right out of the box!

Regarding the ASRock ION 330 I must say that it’s a wonderful piece of computer, so small in size but so much under the “hood”. Go buy one!

I wanted to use mail-notification for my home and work mailboxes, but I found out that the SSL/TLS support was left out due to licensing matters. As I’m using SSL on my mailboxes I needed to rebuild the package to use OpenSSL. So if you need SSL support with mail-notification(amd64) you can grab it here.

Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:

http://apt-get.se/ubuntu aptgetse-jaunty main

Get my public key for apt-secure:

wget -q http://apt-get.se/ubuntu/aptgetse.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

As me and my girlfriend is expecting a baby any time soon I just had to put my nerdy heritage on the little one. What’s a better way than introducing the baby directly to the wonderful world of linux and open source by buying some nice Ubuntu clothes from https://shop.canonical.com/.