To anticipate and prevent
So I’ve continued my work on my laptop this last week. Fiddling around a bit and I found a few bits. First off that no matter what I do, I cant possibly get a USB drive working because the udev package for debian requires me running 2.6.12 or better (And I’m at 2.6.8 ). Of…
Happy December everyone. Tis the season of holidays, and gift giving and all that junk. Just remember, the best gift you can give — is the gift of freedom from tyranical software giants. Give your family linux, teach them how to use it — then watch them free themselves of vendor chains. Watch them fly…
I just saw some WD 400GB drives on sale for 200$ a piece. Make me really want to build a MythTV/RAID Box. Unfortunetly I have to save all my money at the moment for that Xbox 360 — but one of these days god damn I’ll actually get to build my RAID, so I can…
I’ve been muking with my laptop a good bit more, I found only one problem: Wireless is a bit iffy. There’s alot of times when I ifup wlan0 that it will sit there trying to get DHCP and end up doing nothing. Of course if I iwconfig the ap mac, essid and channel — the…
Well a co-worker of mine convinced me to install Linux (More specifically I installed debian — of course) on my laptop (Averatec 6100), so I did. Its been relativly painless, with a few minor problems. On first boot Xorg came up just perfectly and worked, but on the following reboot I had issues. First that…
Before I build some awesome temperature telling device (rather useless — but novel and cool), I really need a RAID. To be presise I need alot of harddrive space on my network. I’ve been jugling several hundred gigs of audio & video files around on external harddrives and its getting a bit tedious now —…