If you're willing to exchange a bit of memory for a lot less strain on your wrists, let alone work speed, this is your lucky day. In this post, I will describe how I've tuned my everyday work environment to a point where it feels completely unnatural for me to …
more ...Thanks to Debian, I got pidgin 2.2.0 today, and with it, its new atrocious smiley theme--eyebrows and all. This prompted me to make a smiley theme out of Psi's old smileys, which I still remember liking the most.
You can download that theme here: PSI Smilies in …
more ...As part of the course requirements for the mechanics class I took, a team of which I was a part designed a Rattleback. A rattleback is a top that appears to have a preferred direction of rotation, i.e. if you start spinning it the wrong way, it (unintuitively) will …
more ...This post summarizes my experience of making the hardware in my shiny new IBM ThinkPad R52 work with Linux.
I initially tried Debian on this computer, but later on headed over to Ubuntu with a home-built kernel for a bunch of reasons on which I won't elaborate here. Update: I've …
more ...This entry describes my way to wireless LAN in Linux. It is an update of an earlier article. All I wanted was an 802.11g-compatible PCMCIA card with a reasonably open and functional Linux driver. I find it ok if the card's firmware is not open source, but I hate …
more ...A brief hint for those using Linux: If you have an old computer, and Linux chooses to disable ACPI, leave it at that. That is, do not use acpi=force. I just had a case of a computer that appeared to work fine with it. Only that the ACPI option …
There's an issue surrounding recent (2.6.8 and newer) Linux kernels and CD burning. This Gentoo forum thread summarizes the technicalities. Basically, up until 2.6.7, everybody with read rights to a device was allowed to send control messages to it, and thus (for example) overwrite an IDE …
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