A while back--in 2006, actually-- I wished for a netbook preferrably with an ARM processor. The whole idea would be a lightweight, portable netbook with "all-day" battery life.

I have since gotten an eee pc 701, and have enjoyed it very much.

But I think the eee pc's run is about over with me, because looks like my ARM netbook dreams may soon ( Read more... )

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After a bit of googling about, it seems that I'm affected by Ubuntu Bug #111375, which itself seems to be kernel bug #8423. According to kernel.org's bugzilla, this has been fixed, but a new Ubuntu kernel hasn't been compiled yet ( Read more... )

While sputnik runs well enough on a 32-bit 'generic' kernel, I am tempted to try an AMD64 kernel to see if I can get CPUfreq to work properly. It's not that big a deal for me, since I haven't put anything on this host anyway.

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nova,our new Mini-ITX box is now fully operational. I had meant to get this up a while ago (um, Christmas) for my mother, but various interruptions kept me from completing the build. (Which, I know, is lame, because everything was pretty much prefab and put together already...I just needed to do final connections and install the OS and so forth. ( Read more... )

For those of you running Windows. Do not open any emails purporting to tell you about the suicide of Michael Jackson--this is a trojan--once run, it will install itself onto your computer, insert itself into the system registry, and allow other people to access your computer remotely.

Those of you running *nix can safely ignore this warning.

I have concluded that the extremely-slow ripping is due to the fact that I have a crappy CPU. 800 MHz doesn't cut it when it comes to encoding .ogg, I guess...nothing like my brother's 3.2 GHz monster downstairs.

Warning: Geek Content!

I finally got my WLAN to work!

I used version 0.7 of ndiswrapper which shipped with SuSE 9.1 Personal. Old, yeah--the current release is 0.12...but as you probably read in my last update, I had a devil of a time downloading the "make" rpm, and thus was unable to compile the most recent release. But this release works ( Read more... )

fuck fuck fuck fuck FUCK.

Why, oh WHY does my install of SuSE 9.1 Personal not want to let me install the make rpm???

i downloaded it off SuSE's FTP and everything. Copy to a USB drive, run it upstairs to the SuSE box, copy it onto the hard drive, and then run the rpm in YaST ( Read more... )