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 couple gotchas that I had to work through, so I thought I’d list them here: [...]
Continue Reading →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 more recent version of lame. After doing so, about 1 in 10 files would fail [...]
Continue Reading →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 out of the current Ubuntu 7.x or 8.x distros of KVM include this patch or [...]
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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 compiled a hacked version of the X11 Synaptics driver that includes a fudge factor for [...]
Continue Reading →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 don’t really want to ever restore Windows. Here are my first thoughts: The screen is [...]
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http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-939165.html
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audacious and audacity are two different, but sorta vaguely similar programs.
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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. Here were the major stumbling blocks: 1. The “depsolve hang in upgrade” bug which meant [...]
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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, I didn’t realize that mrtg would run on a remote machine. I didn’t try getting [...]
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