DNS Not Satisfactory
While trying to connect to a remote webserver via SSH last night, I found that my machine refused to resolve the hostname to an IP […]
My audio doesn’t work anymore
Yup. Not sure why. It just happened. I have tried messing around in my audio settings and still nothing. In fact the only audio device […]
These lockups are getting pretty annoying
This morning I was using Firefox with about a dozen tabs open when my computer locked up. It froze and was completely unresponsive – basically […]
Mounting an NTFS-formatted External Drive
I have a Western Digital 250GB NTFS-formatted external hard drive that I use primarily to store backups of my Windows machine. Since I’m away from […]
Softphones, anyone?
Any recommendations for a softphone (VOIP client) that runs under Gentoo? I’m at the end of my rope – my usual poison X-Lite doesn’t want […]
vpnc and me
After a brief hiatus of making posts (I document my daily trials all day at work, so it’s not usually the first thing I want […]
Wireless Network Manager Woes
Debian Lenny ships with the Network Manager package, version 0.6.6-4, which for all intents and purposes is a well written and very useful network management […]
New monitor woes
So I’ve gone out and purchased myself a gorgeous LG Flatron W2243T. Unfortunately, getting it to work correctly has proven difficult so far. It’s connected […]
Armacycles Advanced
This afternoon Phil, Jon, Sasha and myself engaged in a little Tron-esque gameplay thanks to the awesome 3D recreation known as Armacycle Advanced or sometimes […]
Eclipse Fails It
Man, Eclipse works great on Debian! It gives me this cool message on startup: JVM terminated. Exit code=127 /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/bin/java -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni -Dgnu.gcj.precompiled.db.path=/var/lib/gcj-4.2/classmap.db -Dgnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.library_control=never -Dosgi.locking=none -jar /usr/lib/eclipse/startup.jar […]
OpenOffice.org needs snappier application names
Seriously, the names in OpenOffice.org are pretty bland – “Spreadsheet”, “Word Processor”, “Presentation”, etc. However, that’s pretty much the only fault I could find so […]
Challenger Approaching: Phil tries to install openSUSE
I’m the newest guinea pig in this experiment, and yes, I’m a few days late joining up. Since I’ve already become comfortable with Ubuntu, I […]
How to not install XBMC on Debian Lenny
So tonight I got a terrible idea. I figured that I’d try to install XBMC, the awesome media centre app for modded Xbox consoles. Turns […]
Day 12, my current software setup
It has been almost half a month since the experiment has begun and I think everyone is just getting to the point where they can […]
Just wanted to share a fail.
I’m back from a brief vacation, where $3 blackjack was the name of the game. Since I didn’t lose all my money I’m in pretty […]
SELinux and printing: Chock full of FAIL.
I might be a little frustrated at this point, but please – let me explain myself before you start with the ‘Haha, Linux noobie.’ comments. […]
Day Five, Still Alive
Just checking in to say so far so good! Actually I have quite a bit more to say than that. As you all know, I’ve […]
The trouble with patching your kernel to fix a problem…
If you remember a while back I was having a world of trouble trying to get my ATi drivers to play nicely with my desktop […]
Alien, OpenPGP & Wine
Now that the horrors of installation and setup are a part of the past I have been spending my time delving deep into the desktop […]
Upgrading to Flash 10 in Debian
Even though the Debian community is very strict about only allowing free software in their repositories, my Iceweasel install came preloaded with Macromedia Flash 9. […]