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see the following stories:

1. http://battellemedia.com/archives/003447.php

2. http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/10554/532/

3. http://www.ledevoir.com/2007/03/19/135590.html (in French)

The first article describes the program. I also found most comments by the readers worth reading - and altogether they summarize pretty much everything I would have to say about it :o)

I came across this project the other day. Apparently it should work with any SIP-based VoIP client. (They list X-Lite, Gizmo and SJphone.)

I haven't had a chance to test it, but I sure will - they provide a source-form linux version. I may even contribute a gentoo e-build, since so far I couldn't find one...

What makes this project even more interesting to me is the fact that Phil Zimmermann, the original creator of PGP, is behind it.

Homepage: http://www.cgsecurity.org/

Description in portage: Multi-platform tool to check and undelete partition, supports reiserfs, ntfs, fat32, ext2/3 and many others. Also includes PhotoRec to recover pictures from digital camera memory.

Installation (Gentoo Linux amd64):

echo 'app-admin/testdisk ~amd64' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
echo 'app-admin/testdisk jpeg ntfs' >> /etc/portage/package.use
emerge -av app-admin/testdisk

To use it, just run 'photorec' as root in a shell window. Despite the name, photorec will find and recover many files, not only pictures. You'll find the full list on the PhotoRec homepage.

I haven't tried TestDisk yet, but PhotoRec has been useful several times already.

It's as simple as:

# required as of now to get Flash 9
echo 'net-www/netscape-flash  ~amd64' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
emerge -av netscape-flash

echo 'media-video/realplayer  nsplugin' >> /etc/portage/package.use
emerge -av realplayer

echo 'net-www/nspluginwrapper ~amd64' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
emerge -av nspluginwrapper

Now I just need to figure out how to get sound when realplay is launched from Firefox (it works with the Flash plugin or when realplay is launched from a regular shell).

It took me a while to figure out what was going on, so I hope this can be useful to someone else...

In gentoo, you need to unmerge x11-misc/xkeyboard-config and emerge x11-misc/xkbdata instead. (I have xorg-x11 7.1)

Then your keyboard section in xorg.conf needs to look like this:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "ch(fr)"
EndSection

fr_CH will not work. well, it sort of worked, but none of the AltGr combinations would work, regardless of what I tried with xmodmap, despite the keycode returned by xev being correct etc.