I find that sometimes I revert to the older, simpler tools, despite the fact that there are many newer ones available. Why? They’re standardized. They’ll be everywhere. This means you can almost guarantee they’ll be available for you. This, as they say, is a good thing.
Such is the case of ‘xmore....
Since I’ve opted to give up Windows entirely, I’ve lost quite a few of the ‘not-quite-necessities’ I once had. One of those things was the ability to update the microcode within my computer to support updates and fixes. Well, no more! Thank you, Dell.
Below is a small tutorial on how to use prebui...
I’ve always opted to login to my server and use the good old fashioned textarea entry; however, with the stability of TextPattern’s XML-RPC library, I figured I’d give BloGTK a try.
It’s fairly basic, but it works rather well, despite my personal belief that UI interfaces and scripting languages...
Ok, it died twice again, worked 3 times back at home, and died 4 more when out and about. I give up on this mess.. If I need wireless, elsewhere, I’ll make another config file. NetworkManager is too flaky; the system constantly reloads the ipw3945 driver before wpa_supplicant has had a chance to ass...
I’ve heard many things over the years about Ubuntu.. heck, I even passed out a few of their ‘free’ CDs in ’05 (Hoary, 5.04). It worked great.
However, I’ve recently attempted to adopt it on a fledgling Laptop which was just becoming more of a nuisance to try to keep running than was worth the time...
I’ve found yet another oddity. Rather, gcc pointed it out to me, because I wasn’t paying too much attention.
this current patch which should fix RAM resume and suspend problems in 2.6.21.
It modifies the subroutine as follows:
static void tick_resume(int broadcast)
{
struct tick_devic...