I have had my 2006 Element for about 4 months and hadn’t posted anything about it - it is definitely a cool vehicle that will get lots of good use
I got a little Pelican Burst for Christmas, and a couple days ago we bought a Apex 129T to go along with it. [...]
I just dumped Solaris off my underutilized (because of Solaris..) Sunfire V120 and did a fresh install of Debian Etch for the Sparc64 architecture. I burned the sparc iso image and borrowed an IDE SuperSlim CDROM from another server for the install, but the V120 would not recognize the device, no matter what I [...]
I am working on a functional dual-monitor setup for when I drop my Lenovo T60 (2613-EAU - Radeon Mobility X1400 128M) into it’s dock while at work, and I am partially there.. The first thing I needed to work out the fact that Debian Etch comes with a version of the proprietary ATI flgrx [...]
My mail server is going mad.. It looks like some spammer decided to use my domain and I am currently rejecting thousands of emails to the user ‘fidpbandjellyqid’ at my domain.. Sorry, but it wasn’t me..
update: (Thu Jun 21 18:18:27) - the mail traffic is slowly but surely tapering off, but total [...]
The EIDE drive in my server died.. It had a grand life - 4-Oct-2004 to 3-Mar-2007 on Slackware 9.1 and only two reboots. I moved to Debian Etch for the OS - Slackware has been rock solid, but after swapping to Debian on other machines, the maintenance and software availability are just too [...]
I gave Roxane my old digital camera for Christmas (I got a new little Olympus FE-115), so I went shopping at several local stores for a 32-64MB MMC card for it… No luck - no one carries them anymore…
A quick search gave me a few options for online purchase, and the best seemed to [...]
Got my hands on a SprintPCS Sierra Wireless AirCard 595 for testing out connectivity under linux (Xubuntu 6.10, to be precise (and now Debian Etch)) - works perfectly
Plug the card in, and dmesg should show similar to:
[17188167.136000] pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
[17188167.212000] ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 ‘Open’ Host Controller [...]