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Notes on transitioning from Fedora Core to Ubuntu

Just some quick notes before I forget them. I’ve recently switched my primary desktop machine from Fedora Core 8 (very old, I know) x86_64 to Ubuntu 9.04 (latest and greatest) x86_64.  In general, things went well, but there were a … Continue reading

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audacious + madplug + lame –vbr-new == FAIL

I listen to all of my music via streaming it from my home machine, and transcoding it on the fly. I recently made 2 changes to my setup: I’m using audacious for playback instead of xmms I switched to a … Continue reading

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Mac OSX Leopard under KVM/Linux

Some collected links.  I have yet to get this working properly.  The osx86 install images hang at “dsmos: Starting” http://d4wiki.goddamm.it/index.php/Howto:_Mac_OSX_on_KVM It seems as though KVM/qemu itself needs to be patched to emulate the AppleSMC hardware device.  I can’t yet find … Continue reading

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Vertical scrolling fix for Lenovo S10 (Ubuntu)

So, the Lenovo S10 works great with Linux, particularly Ubuntu 8.10, but the one thing thats a bit wonky is the way the trackpad works.  The trackpad is non-square, but reports square coodinates, so the vertical motion is exaggerated. I’ve … Continue reading

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Lenovo S10 first impressions

Okay, I’ve had my Lenovo S10 since Friday.  I briefly played around with the default Windows XP install, upgraded the BIOS, and then installed Ubuntu 8.10 as my primary disk, and wiped the OKR (One Key Recovery) partition, since I … Continue reading

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Independent horizontal & vertical sensitivity settings

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-939165.html

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Stupid linux facts

audacious and audacity are two different, but sorta vaguely similar programs.

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Tuning linux buffer cache management

Here’s a great page talking about how to tune the Linux buffer cache

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The last Fedora update I’ll ever do.

Yesterday, I finally finished updating this computer from Fedora Core 6 to Fedora Core 8. I’ve completely swarn off Fedora, and if there were an easy way for me to migrate away, I’d do that instead of these insane upgrades. … Continue reading

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Using mrtg & snmpd to monitor your OpenWRT router’s throughput

I’ve looked around on the web for a while for easy instructions about how to setup an mrtg installation to monitor my OpenWRT router’s throughput. Here are my easy instructions for getting this setup up and running: Note: At first, … Continue reading

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