Code and Whatnot

As of last week I was getting pretty tired of my laptop’s inability to suspend to RAM in Ubuntu Feisty 7.04. The ati driver that comes with Ubuntu didn’t work at all on my machine, and the fglrx driver package (the non-free driver from ATI), while it did work, caused the machine to freeze […]

I just got an Asus V6Va. It’s a handsome laptop. The screen is just about the best laptop screen I’ve ever seen. A glossy-but-low-glare, 1400×1050 pixel, 15″ screen on a low-profile, lightweight chassis.
If you know me at all you know I didn’t have much use for the included Windows XP […]

I hardly even know what anti-aliasing is. But the anti-aliasing in Ubuntu 6.10, unless I’ve gone mad, is really nice. There is some intangible quality in the text that makes everything really easy to read.
Firefox 2 (which comes with the upgrade) is also awesome. I always wanted little X’s on […]

Here I finally went and got the command to upgrade to Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft. Without paying much attention to Ubuntu news, I was assuming that at one point my 6.06 Dapper Drake would eventually automatically upgrade itself. Canonical, it seems, has designated 6.06 a ‘Long Term Support’ release, and as such […]

My buddy Southard and I are working on a little side-project: developing web services for an electronics wholesaler. They’re not paying us in any direct way, but we’ll be the first to launch a storefront that runs directly from the web services, and we might resell our own solution as a turnkey product.
At the […]

One day Rhapsody stopped working in Ubuntu on my work machine. It didn’t stop working on my home Ubuntu machine, which runs the same version. I thought something I did installing non-packaged software like the JRE and Flash caused it to stop working. At the time I couldn’t find any information by […]

Just a little update: After installing the nvidia-glx package yesterday, I was still unable to get my screen resolution up to 1280×1024 (which my video card and monitor are fully capable of doing). Today when I got home from work, I ineptly googled for a minute, then on a prayer I typed apropos nvidia […]

Think long and hard before you decide how big your Ubuntu partition is going to be. Mine was half of a 100 gig drive — ultimately too small. I learned the hard way yesterday that QTParted doesn’t resize ext3 partitions, and that’s the only kind of partition I had on the disk. […]

All of that being said, I find myself deactivating and reactivating the wireless interface too often, and I’ll continue to read up on it until I get it more stable. (Or, I’ll stop screwing with the settings and forcing myself to restart it…)

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