600 000 Macs infected by a trojan I'm not going to go fanboy here, because I have relied on Linux's relative intrinsic security, rather than investigate anti-malware options. It's a lot less clear to me what I have to do to firm up my anti-virus state on Linux. I've got some reading to do.

At work, I rely heavily on Windows 7 System Restore to reset my system to a certain state to test a product we offer. Today I discovered that certain drivers were not being removed, which I thought were being removed (my fault). So I wanted to run System Restore again to roll back to a previous system state. Normally when I run System Restore, ( Read more... )

As a small personal celebration, I decided to splurge a little on some computer equipement. My on-motherboard ATI Radeon HD3200 just wasn't cutting it, especially since it was using a quarter of my RAM and it didn't have a second output for my recently acquired second monitor my sister isn't going to be using when she moves down to the States for ( Read more... )

or How I Stopped Trying to Reinvent the Wheel ( Read more... )

Here's a sixth omnibus post. This one has been a long time coming. I started the first draft of it back before I was working at Barzel, shortly after the last one, but it always got delayed by other things, and I'm discovering things more slowly now. The first five are still available for viewing.

( Restoring GRUB as the Bootloader )

It's been ages since I worked on my cipher solver. It's a shame, cause I think it's fun, but first there was work, and now there's looking for work. Every once in a while I'll put in a little time on it (like maybe tonight). Recently, I came across a website which works along a similar line ( Read more... )

In some recent adventures, I came across a command to rebuild the xorg.conf file. This file controls screen modes and which driver is being used. It's not hard to screw it up in some way or change things out from under it. Running the following command regenerates the file. Though I'm not sure whether it was this or a system reboot that solved ( Read more... )

Well, I don't take it all back, but I feel considerably friendlier towards Linux tonight. And less friendly towards Excel. Think of this as the LJ equivalent of "which do you want first?":
( Good Linux Experience )

I enjoy playing in Linux quite a bit, and it's my preferred operating system for doing programming. I like VIM, and the control it affords when I'm programming. However it (at least Ubuntu) has a number of serious shortcomings that need to be addressed before it can become an alternative even for a fairly sophisticated user like myself, much less ( Read more... )

To my linux using friends:

You may know how to bind commands to keys with Metacity. Doing so requires knowing the names for each of the keys in the context of Metacity, or Gnome or something. I just discovered how to indicate keys on the keypad, with "KP_5" for number 5, for instance. However, I cannot bind the numpad 9 key with Metacity. When ( Read more... )