Blog Archive: November 2024
Firefox bookmarks
On March 18th, 2007 In Software
Just a quick note on bookmarks. I use several laptops, a common machine
at home and a workstation at work. This can sometimes get confusing
when I save web bookmarks in various different places.
I recently discovered "foxmarks". I only used Firefox,
and foxmarks is an extension which syncs up my bookmarks everyplace I
install it. It's
Modifying read-only file systems in an embedded system
On March 18th, 2007 In Software
It's often a good idea to make the root file system in a embedded system
read-only. If you do this and only make changes to files in a ram disk
(mounted under /tmp, for example) the device will always come back to
a known state when powered up. This is a nice feature and often
a requirement.
But sometimes you need to make changes which