just upgraded one of my PCs to 11.2. i think i started out this PC with opensuse 10.3 and have continuously upgraded ever since. 10.3 ran great on it..i ran into what seemed to be performance issues when i first upgraded to 11.x. and by that i mean a sluggish desktop environment, gnome in particular. […]
i’ve never considered myself a power user of any application. i just use the common functionality of most apps and thus i’m very easy to please. i want an app to do a few basic things and i’m happy. extra features are a plus of course, but it’s most likely that i will never delve […]
i was about to build chromium on linux today. why? well why not! i installed all the pre-req libraries. downloaded the source, a 700MB-ish tarball, that shocked me by extracting to near 2GB. i surveyed the documentation further..this time actually paying attention to details. and it appears that to build the app i’d need like […]
i’m a big fan of the transmission bittorrent client, having ditched azureus/vuze some time ago. though i used azureus for a very long time..it was pretty close to being my first bt client, but now it’s time to move on. the commandline version of transmission (transmissioncli) is decent but doesn’t seem to be as featureful […]
a kit i’d definitely like to mess around with: http://www.ladyada.net/make/x0xb0x/index.html i could buy it piecemeal.. haven’t soldered anything in forever should be a fun experience. more interesting kits here: http://www.adafruit.com
ever since i installed debian on my nslu2 i’ve been overjoyed by the results. previously, i had relied on old pentium3 PCs to become my always on linux boxes. but now i’m obsessed with the idea of super low power ARM devices that aren’t loud and noisy, and don’t take up a lot of space. […]
i upgraded my laptop to 2010 last friday and spent most of the weekend sort of tweaking things. the laptop has been through many a mandriva upgrade.. so it’s far from a clean slate. i can’t remember certainly but i think i first installed 2008.1 on this laptop then 2009 > 2009.1 > 2010. crisis […]
i haven’t done a lot with ESXi yet except make a VM running it. just for future notes ESXi needs a SCSI disk and i think with a LSI logic controller, also it needs at minimum 2GB of ram, and an intel 1000 NIC. the vmx file can be edited to achieve these settings (i […]
i’m just a few years from turning 30. i’ve noticed i have changed some of the ways i operate. some of it comes from age/experience and some of it comes from having a different job role. quite honestly when dealing with IT-related problems in the past…often i had been impetuous in trying to find a […]
from my understanding redhat threw pulseaudio into their fedora releases fairly early on. and then all the other major distros followed suit. i don’t think redhat can be faulted for this because they don’t really care about the desktop market much anymore. but the distros that have a large desktop following i.e. ubuntu should have […]