Posted in Computers, Linux on Sep 28th, 2009 No Comments »
A couple of years ago, I picked up a Wacom A6 ArtPad at a computer fair for very little cash (I think it was about £5 or £10) sans power supply, and it’s been sitting gathering dust since I upgraded my PC and lost the serial port. Sadly it doesn’t work on 64-bit Windows XP [...]
Posted in Computers, General rambling, Linux on Jul 19th, 2009 No Comments »
After swearing that I’d give up on Windows since I started using Ubuntu, I’ve finally taken steps towards my goal. This morning, I hosed my Ubuntu 8.10 install and decided that it was high time I tried 9.04. After all, it’s been around for a good three months, so it should be pretty stable. Well, [...]
Posted in Computers, Linux on Dec 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Well, the upgrade from Kubuntu 8.04.1 LTS to 8.10 was fairly painless. I’ve lost the Eee OSD and ACPI script fixes I applied, and the installer rather helpfully removed the Array.org kernel, so I can’t use the WiFi on my Eee 1000H any more. Those are easy to fix, though. KDE4.1 is… well… awful. It’s [...]
Posted in Computers, Linux on Dec 20th, 2008 No Comments »
Those of you who know me in real life will probably know that I’ve been a KDE user since I started using Linux, back in the days of Mandrake (now Mandriva) 6.1. Wikipedia says that was 1999. Wow. Nearly ten years of Linux geekery… I feel old. Since then I’ve used Slackware from about 2002 [...]
Posted in General rambling, Linux on Aug 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
Well, my PVR box is set up. It’s running Mythdora 4, with some customisations: 1. **Patched, older kernel** – the stock Fedora Core 6 2.6.18 kernel with the GRML kernel patches (from [GRML's Mercurial VCS](http://hg.grml.org/grml-kernel/archive/3abf902cffd4.tar.bz2) in the /2.6.18 patches; you want 400?_net-r8169*.patch) 2. **HVR3000 driver modules** – Steve Toth’s HVR3000 driver kit, from [LinuxTV.org's Mercurial [...]
Posted in Computers, Linux on Nov 10th, 2006 2 Comments »
Seems WordPress butchered the command line I posted — I’ve turned off WYSIWYG Editing and fixed the bug. Thanks to Tim Petrowsky for pointing this out. Problem: On Fedora Core 6 (and probably Core 5 too), if you enable the JPackage repositories and run a ‘yum update’, Yum will fail with the following error: Error: [...]
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