This is a short post. Last night, I wanted to load up bzflags on my MythBuntu box so I could crush the kids in an epic tank battle. Too bad my 500W power supply had roasted, and may have been merrily cooking away for a day or more before I found out.
So, off to the [...]
Filed under: Games, Hardware | Tagged: bzflags, Hardware, MythBuntu, power supply | Leave a Comment »
I started last night. First, I decided to use the 32-bit LiveCD installer. I booted off the CD after shutting down Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, and soon was at the GUI (I chose the first option; to test before installing). Once there, i opened up a konsole session, ran “sudo -i” to get root, [...]
Filed under: File Systems, Hardware, KDE, Kubuntu, Microsoft, Security, Smartcard, Vista, Xorg | Tagged: AKO, Atheros, CAC, coolkey, defrag, defragment, DoD, DVD, Home Premium, java, no zap, partition, rebuild, resize, restricted, skype, Thunderbird, TTF, Vista, webcam, wireless, XFS, Xorg | Leave a Comment »
I tried to connect my media computer to my wireless network and failed. I ended up running a wired connection to it and searching online for an answer. There is a lot of stuff out there regarding problems with the KNetwork Manager app being brain-dead with wireless. I did some checking and [...]
Filed under: Hardware, KDE, Kubuntu, wireless | Tagged: AirForce One 54g, b43, bcm, BCM 4318, Broadcom, KNetworkManager | 9 Comments »
So far, RAID-10/LVM/XFS is working quite well with Kubuntu 9.04. Jaunty picks up hardware effortlessly. I plugged in a USB thumb drive, and a little notification pops up.
Ok.
I plug in my camera, and it sees it fine,no muss, no fuss.
Better.
I plug in my webcam – no notification, it just works.
Sweeeet.
I plug in my HP printer, [...]
Filed under: Apps, Desktops, Distros, File Systems, Hardware, KDE, KVM, Kubuntu, Linux, Microsoft, Open-Source, RAID and LVM, VMWare | Tagged: Jaunty, VMware-Server | 2 Comments »
Building a high-performance, yet fault-tolerant RAID system on 64-bit Kubuntu (Jaunty Jackalope). I hope…
Filed under: Desktops, Distros, File Systems, Hardware, HowTo, KDE, Kernel, Kubuntu, Linux, Open-Source, RAID and LVM, VMWare | Tagged: 2.6.28, 64-bit, 9.04, alternate install CD, Jaunty Jackalope, KDE 4.2.2, LILO, LVM2, power supply, RAID-1, RAID-10, SATA, XFS | 2 Comments »
I have a Logitech Orbit AF USB webcam, with Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) controls. I got it to work on an earlier kernel, on a different computer, by compiling in a custom module, and loading some other modules, and doing some things I never bothered to document. So, I completely forgot how to make it work on [...]
Filed under: Hardware, HowTo, Kernel, Kubuntu, Linux | Tagged: 2.6.28, drivers, HowTo, Kernel, Kubuntu, Logitech, modules, troubleshooting, Ubuntu, uvc, webcam | 1 Comment »
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