Late last week I was griping about the poor trackpad performance on the Dell Mini 10 and decided to try to fix it. It was usable, but difficult and caused a lot of erroneous clicks and mouse-moves and was a bit like trying to use a Fisher Price toy to perform brain surgery. Clunky, imprecise, [...]
Over the past week and a bit, I’ve been playing around with Crunchbang Linux on a Dell Mini 10 netbook. The experience has been entertaining at least and Crunchbang works surprisingly well once you get it configured.
Out of the box, Cunchbang is a fairly minimalist desktop environment, using Openbox and Tint as the desktop and [...]
I’ve been meaning to get this Nintendo DS homebrew HOWTO out the door in the last month but I keep getting distracted. Right now I’m too pissed to talk about it. Apple’s turned into a complete asshole in the span of about a month. Maybe two. Maybe it’s been brewing for a lot longer than [...]
I just realized that I’m still sitting in front of my computer, having gone outside maybe once today to get beer. Now I am drinking a beer. A Stella Artois. I am wondering what I am going to do tonight. My gaming posse has all but dried up. I guess they decided they needed “real-lives” [...]
First distro to help me get some files off of this non-booting, non-disk-mounting system is the winner.
The place: My lab.
The setup: One faulty linux box (installed with Fedora Core 2), one or more failed drives and NO INTERNET!
On-hand for the competition were, Gentoo 2004.2, Knoppix and Gnoppix (Ubuntu). The Fedora Core 3 DVD ISO was [...]
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