Dual Booting Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 8 on a Lenovo Y400 IdeaPad
With the third edition of The Linux Experiment already underway, I decided to get my new laptop set up with an Ubuntu partition to work […]
Hardware
What is this, text for ants? Part I
Unlike many people who may be installing a version of Linux, I am doing so on a machine that has a projector with a 92″ […]
Make printing easy with the Samsung Unified Linux Driver Repository
I recently picked up a cheap Samsung laser printer and decided to give the Samsung Unified Linux Driver Repository a shot while installing it. Basically […]
Changing ATI power profile to low
My laptop’s graphics card has never had the best support on linux and has now approached the point in its life where even ATI has […]
Querying the State of a Hardware WiFi Switch with RF-Kill
The laptop that I’m writing this post from has a really annoying strip of touch-response buttons above the keyboard that control things like volume and […]
Automatically put computer to sleep and wake it up on a schedule
Ever wanted your computer to be on when you need it but automatically put itself to sleep (suspended) when you don’t? Or maybe you just […]
How to test hard drive for errors in Linux
I recently re-built an older PC from a laundry list of Frankenstein parts. However before installing anything to the hard drive I found I wanted […]
It should not be this hard to change my volume
Normally my laptop is on my desk at home plugged into a sound system, so I never have to change the volume. However I’m currently […]
Reinstalling LFS soon: it’s not my fault, I swear!
I went to play around with my Linux from Scratch installation after getting a working version of KDE 4.7.3 up and running. For a few […]
Great Success!
Just a quick note tonight – I finally managed to get a bootable Gentoo system installed! After my last post, things were looking pretty grim. […]
Bye Bye Bodhi
Ah Linux One website lists ten reasons to use linux my favourites of which are “Linux is easier to use than Windows” and “Linux is […]
Fix PulseAudio loopback delay
Sort of a follow up (in spirit) to two of Jon’s previous posts regarding pulse audio loopback; I noticed that there was quite a bit […]
Unwanted Effects on my Line-in Interface
Shortly after purchasing an xbox360, I wrote a short piece that gave instructions for forwarding your line-in audio through your pc speakers. By using this […]
PulseAudio: Monitoring your Line-In Interface
At home, my setup consists of three machines -Â a laptop, a PC, and an XBOX 360. The latter two share a set of speakers, […]
Setting up a RocketRaid 2320 controller on Linux Mint 9
After the most recently recorded podcast, I decided to take a stab at running Linux on my primary media server. The machine sports a Highpoint […]
Fix ATI vsync & video tearing issue once and for all!
NOTE: ATI’s most recent drivers now include a no tearing option in the driver control panel. Enabling it there is now the preferred method. Two […]
Pulse Audio Nonsense
Just a heads up: This isn’t the kind of post that contains answers to your problems. It is, unfortunately, the kind of post that contains […]
Kubuntu 9.10 (Part II)
A quick “solution” to my graphics and desktop effects woes
Going Linux, Once and for All
With the linux experiment coming to an end, and my Vista PC requiring a reinstall, I decided to take the leap and go all linux […]
This… looks… awesome!
Looks being the key word there because I haven’t actually been able to successfully run either of these seemingly awesome pieces of software. Amahi is […]