To anticipate and prevent
I read my webalizer logs for all the domains under my controll (on my server) on a relativly regular basis. I find the most intresting parts of the logs is what search terms are bringing users to my site — especially for Snowulf here. The most popular searches that bring people here are gun related….
Yesterday I was wardriving on my Averatec laptop — which I really shouldn’t have. I say that because I have a 140W car DC->AC adapter — which is ok for most laptops, but not the Averatec. The Av draws 120v @ 2Amps which equals about 240Watts — a bit over. Opps. AP’s Galore So today…
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…
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…
So my Averatec (Which I hate so much because they refurse to support it) had a 60GB 4200RPM harddrive. I recently ordered and installed a 100GB 5400RPM harddrive w/ an 8MB cache. This made a HUGE jump in performance for my machine (also added some ram which helps). HDTach reported something akin to a 4x…
So after my last fit with Averatec I filled a BBB report against them. Here’s what I got back: Initial Response — Posted 7-6-2005 Our systems engineer is in the process in getting this posted on our website. We have been working on this and are hoping to have the information on our website by…