Sunday, June 28th, 2009
The kitchen computer project will be powered by a black ASUS EeeBox B203! The ancient 800 MHz (VIA Samuel 2 crap CPU) Mini-ITX machine I use for the prototype is very slow, has issues with the USB network adapter (NetGear WG111v3, ID 0846:4260), and freezes occasionally so it will be ...
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Sunday, December 21st, 2008
Upgrading a FreeBSD server should be less painful than putting a graphics card in a Windows server, unless there is a huge technical debt involved of course...
At home I've been upgrading my three year old FreeBSD file server. I bought 3 new 500 gigabyte hard disk drives for a new ...
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Sunday, December 21st, 2008
My computer troubles did not stop with the RAM failure on my laptop.
The next issue was a server upgrade at work. We needed to put a graphics card into a server. (Don't ask why!) The HP ProLiant ML110 G5 server has a built-in Matrox G200e (with 8 megabytes of RAM) ...
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
I had some mysterious crashes on my Thinkpad T60p the other day. First I got Firefox hangs, second Firefox didn't start, third I got segfaults when listing a directory on the hard disk, four I got kernel panic when running fsck...
Now I'm running Memtest86 and it does not look good:
That ...
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
I usually pride myself with not falling for "special offers" but when I found this €450 computer and monitor package I could not resist. The new hardware is an HP Compaq dx2450 Microtower PC and an HP L2208w 22-inch Widescreen LCD Monitor. It's not high-end stuff, but I think it ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
(Continued from Highway to Dell, part five.)
Yesterday I noticed a problem with ssh on the Dell Inspiron 1525: I could ssh in any direction between the laptop and other computers on the same wireless network, but not to a computer outside of the wireless network. The issue was already reported ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
(Continued from Highway to Dell, part four.)
My wife upgraded the Dell Inspiron 1525 to Ubuntu 8.04 ("Hardy Heron") the other day and as far as I know, everything works fine after correcting the No Sound After Distribution Upgrade issue. I still haven't upgraded my Thinkpad T60p from Ubuntu 7.10 and ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
I have a Fonera WLAN router (unfortunately it has been offline for a while now, but nevertheless) and I really like their thing. In their blog I read that their next generation WLAN router will be an open platform for developers. Interested developers will be able to join Fonosfera: The ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
(Continued from Highway to Dell, part three.) Before buying the Dell Inspiron1525 I did some research and I found a thread about PPP problems with Ubuntu on the machine. I sent a PM to the author of the post and asked of his/her experiences. I got this reply ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
(Continued from Highway to Dell, part two.) The trackpad is much easier to work with since I followed these instructions. I also set MaxTapTime to "0" (zero) to disable tapping on the trackpad, and SHMConfig to "on" so that I can use synclient, gsynaptics or similar programs to play ...
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