Playing Together
This afternoon at OSCon I presented my Playing Together tutorial. I was happy with how it went; I hope the audience liked it. Some of the useful information was in the talk, not in the notes. Tomorrow...
View ArticleHard drive meltdown
My laptop’s harddisk appears to be melting! It seemed fine last night, but I’ve found lots of bad blocks this morning. During the hot weather over the last few weeks I had noticed the laptop was very...
View ArticleThanks, IBM
I took my sick ThinkPad to see the IBM doctor yesterday evening. It seems Mr ThinkPad needs a hard-disk transplant. Dr IBM asked if Mr ThinkPad wanted to be infected with Windoze; he seemed pleased...
View ArticleReiserfs filesystem recovery
Cleaning up after disk crashing season hasn’t been fun, but I am pleased with what I’ve managed to recover from the worst crash. I wanted to get the latest data from the dead webserver. It was in...
View ArticleRefenestration
I have previously documented my search for a /perfect/ window manager. I now believe that my search is over: for the last 3 months I have been using pekwm, and I think it’s great. It had good keyboard...
View ArticleDell 1750 and Xeon Hyper-Threading
Today I started to play with my new Dell servers. They are /so/ cool, although they are a bit noisy with all the fans blowing. I’ve never had a Xeon machine before, and until today I thought...
View ArticleSmartcard reader on Debian GNU/Linux
In April 2005 I joined the Free Software Foundation Europe and received my membership smartcard. The card looked impressive but wasn’t very interesting without a smartcard reader. So (at last) I have...
View ArticleTCP window size scaling problem
I encountered a strange problem earlier when I tried to visit a website: the TCP connection would just hang. I ran Wireshark to see what was happening and noticed a pair of strange acks that made no...
View ArticleTalking at the Tokyo Linux User Group
I gave my “Data Recovery with GNU/Linux” talk at the Tokyo Linux User Group today. I think I was supposed to talk for 30 minutes, but I was still talking well over an hour later. It seemed to go well.
View ArticleGeek fun in the sun
Karen and I joined some of the Tokyo Linux users, ignored the suggestion from Linus, and went to the beach (well, it wasn’t quite a beach; but it was beside the water) for a barbeque instead of...
View ArticleDebian GNU/Linux on my Panasonic R6 ジェットブラック
I had been thinking about getting a new laptop for a while. My old Thinkpad is still mostly working, but I wanted something that is lighter. I have a desktop for heavy work, so small size and light...
View ArticleiMon LCD in 3R Systems case
A while ago I bought a PC case made by 3R Systems. It came with a built-in iMon LCD that had been custom-made by Soundgraph for 3R Systems. The case is good, but I discovered that this LCD panel has no...
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