Pencam cameras include a lot of small sized cameras which can be both used as a digital snapshot type camera and as a webcam. They are all based on the STV680 chipset by STMicroelectronics.

Kio-mac is a kioslave for reading MacOS HFS+ partitions. A kioslave is just a library used by KDE to access files, it means you can access files from your local hard disk, ftp and MacOS in much the same way, through Konqueror or any KDE file dialogue. HFS+ is the disk format used in Mac system 8.1 and newer (MacOS X also lets you use UFS but HFS+ is the default).

This tutorial will show you how to build *.ppc.rpms from SRPMs in three easy steps. REALLY EASY STEPS!!!

I recently installed Debian Linux on my 7200 PowerMac. Due to various hardware quirks, this can be a little tricky. Here are my notes on the subject.

Using an USB CDRW drive on your PPC Linux enabled computer is not a very difficult task. The Linux USB drivers work pretty straight forward and with recent kernels, "Plug and Play" is almost a reality.

Have you ever wanted to script your KDE 2 apps? This howto gives you some pratical examples of how to use the dcop command line program to make your KDE apps do many different things from the command line.

ext3 is a journalized filesystem built on top of ext2. What this means, is that we basically have a disk partition formatted in ext2, but on top of that, we add a journal, which records all the changes done to the disk. When a crash occurs, the disk can rapidly be repaired using the data stored in the journal. But the ext3 filesystem also brings some other improvements, such as a better overall performance and improved data integrity features.

If you consider switching you current Linux partitions to ext3, this HowTo is for you.

Most Apple G3/G4 systems use a modified version of the Open Firmware standard. Open Firmware acts as a type of bios for the PowerPC system, it is responsible for identifying various hardware components and uses a series of environment variables to all the user or developer to modify the boot behavior of the system. Open Firmware is pretty easy to access and navigate once you know how, this guide walks you through the basics, so you can get to know your system a little better.

If you want to log from one linux box into another, the safest way to use is of course ssh. However, if you have to login often, and if you want to move files from one box to the other using scp (ssh copy tool), entering the password each time can be pretty annoying.

Fortunately, ssh supports RSA based authentication, which allows to login without giving a password. (While still authenticating)

Read on for detailed info...