My core2duo linux box here has been running a software RAID1 swap and root for some time now. Basically /dev/md1 is the mirrored swap using the first gig of two drives, and the root partition is /dev/md2 using partition 2 on the same drives. It all works quite well.
Recently I was doing some experiments with [...]
I recently took on some work that involved creating a web frontend to some configuration data on a server. The configuration information was in an XML file, and essentially consisted of a list of server directories and various pieces of information related to each directory.
The goal was to create some web frontend method of editing [...]
I haven’t had a lot of luck using usb hard drive enclosures with Linux. I have about three of them. And they have all ended up in the bottom of a box because basically they never worked reliably with linux. The usual scenario is;
Buy cheap usb/ide enclosure
Plug hard drive in
Plug in to linux system. Device [...]
A few years back, if someone asked me “How much RAM do you need to run XP?” I’d probably say 256MB is fine, but 512MB will make things run great. That was a few years ago.
Fast forward a few years, and well I only use Windows when I have to, usually in a virtual machine. [...]
Just a quick snapshot of the past few weeks
The north coast of NSW in Australia is rather nice at this time of year especially the beaches.
Vista sucks. Per usual, you go on holiday and a friend or relative asks you to fix their computer. Computer #1 was a pretty high spec ASUS laptop with intel [...]
So I bought an iphone. I’m not really the type that needs a smartphone, but I’d been reading all the hysteria about zillions to be made by selling apps on the Apple app store and being the type that is easily misled, I thought I’d have a go at this iphone development. Besides, I’d been [...]
I’ve been playing around with TV tuner cards, Tivo’s and general PVR funcionality for a while now. Here in NZ, the free to air channels have only quite recently started broadcasting in digital, so most of my devices are analog. The digital Free To Air stuff (called Freeview here just like the UK) is broadcast [...]
After my recent hard drive failure, someone suggested I go to the seagate website and type in it’s serial number to see if it was still under warranty. Sure enough it was under warranty until 2010 (must have been a 5 year warranty). Anyway, I followed the instructions to RMA the drive, and wrapped it [...]
My Thinkpad T42 is getting quite old now and well used. A week or so back it started having a pinkish tinge to the screen when you turned it on or resumed it. The pink colour eventually disappeared after about 30 seconds and became the usual white. However, last Saturday the backlight decided to fail [...]
So my switch back to slackware 12 went quite well on the thinkpad 600x, so I thought I’d do the same on the T42. I actually tried updating Archlinux on the T42 the other day. It told me it wanted to apply 177MB of updates. Thats just a bit too silly.
So I installed Slackware 12.0 [...]