By michael on November 14, 2008
Case-sensitivity is painful with VFAT.. I would have put a real filesystem on my new external hard drive, but I thought it would be nice to plug it into anyone’s box and be able to read/write.. Syncing up my audio directory failed when many upper-case ‘CD1′, ‘CD2′, etc directories were created in lower-case, as well [...]
Posted in Hardware, Software |
By michael on March 13, 2008
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. Michelle is [...]
Posted in Family, Hardware |
By michael on December 21, 2007
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 tried, [...]
Posted in Hardware, Software |
By michael on November 6, 2007
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 driver/module [...]
Posted in Hardware, Software |
By michael on June 18, 2007
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 rejected messages [...]
Posted in Hardware, Rants, Software |