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I have a Dell PowerEdge 1950 server running Debian Sarge. It recently experienced the joy of a motherboard replacement (which will hopefully make the hardware faults go away). This normally isn’t a big deal, except for the fact that I use the onboard gigabit NICs. See Debian “knows” which network card is which by MAC…
So a while back you may remember that I posted about switching to Ubuntu, and a second post later about running Warcraft under Linux. Up until yesterday I was running WoW using Cedega 6, and its been working “good enough”. Occasionally I’ve had problems with WoW not launching, crashing on launch, or launching wrong (no…
So the first major problem I’ve found is that I can’t get MKV’s to run. Well, more correctly the MKV (high def) video files stutter very badly. I’ve google’d around and I can only find one real “answer” and that is that the CPU isn’t fast enough. This is crap of course because MKV’s played…
One of the first things I did after getting Ubuntu running was to see if I could get and install World Of Warcraft using Cedega. Yes, I could have used Wine (Which I do have installed) but it only has a bronze rating and frankly I wanted to see if it would run WELL under…
For those playing along at home — yes, I had just installed Windows 2008 on my machine less than a month ago. I got bored and frustrated on Friday with my machine. Mainly frustrated with a CPU stealing glitch. So I decided to install Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on my Dell Latitude D620. I have…
A long time ago in a galax…. Ok, just a long time ago I ran across the idea of a “Carputer” or “CarPC” (or what ever the hell you want to call them). Basically you build a small computer into your car, wire it to run off your battery and put an LCD where your…