I’m on my second ThinkPad now. Last year I replaced my failing T42 with a T60. Both had/have ThinkLights, but I’ve never seen the point in them before…
Right now though, sitting in the garden at night, I finally see the point (I can see my keyboard!!!). Mind you, it’s irrelevant how well lit my laptop [...]
This afternoon I decided I needed a walk to clear my head (too much work, too little sleep) so, I found myself wanting to copy some new music* onto my iAudio X5L, something I haven’t done in a while. Like, since when I first bought and filled it a year ago. “No problem” thinks me, [...]
Also tagged Linux, MusicAs anyone who’s spoken to me recently will probably have gathered, I have been having problems with my trusty ThinkPad T42. Problems in the form of random lockups. Not much fun… After weeks of frustration I finally determined that it was a hardware fault which (as I’m well out of warranty) would be rather expensive [...]
Also taggedWoo yeah for me - I finished setting up my new PC this afternoon Loving the responsiveness that Core2Duo/2GB memory gives you - Eclipse positively flies on this thing!
Installation was a little more work than usual, but still pretty simple. Since the new motherboard uses the dreaded JMicron JMB361 SATA/PATA controller the 2006.1 install [...]
After the motherboard in Phi (my desktop PC) died last week, I took some time deciding what to do. I could have found an old S478 board as a replacement (the cheaper option), but I found the temptation to upgrade the whole box too much to resist.
So, this evening I ordered the parts which will [...]
It appears that the motherboard in my workstation has died - two of the capacitors near the CPU socket have split - oh the horror! This problem was actually a right bitch to pin down…
I’d been experiencing instability issues for a while, but I put this down to my constant fiddling with the OS (ah, [...]
So, after last night’s updates my laptop’s wireless connection decided to stop working this morning (without a reboot I might add). How annoying. A quick glance at the forums seems to suggest it’s something to do with udev and the ipw2200-firmware. I still haven’t really had a chance to work out what’s broken, since I [...]
Also tagged GentooMy ThinkPad T42 has an Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG wireless card, for which I have been using the ipw2200 driver package. As this package is being removed from the portage tree in favor of the in kernel driver I needed to upgrade. I found time this evening. All did not go well.
I started by unmerging [...]
I received the rest of the parts for my HTPC this morning (minus hard discs). With a freshly burned amd64 installcd in my hand I began… And was greeted by
No bootable medium found. Waiting for new devices..
Bugger… After a bit of digging I discovered that the jMicron PATA chipset on the motherboard (Asus P5B-E) doesn’t [...]
I got my new screens today - yes I said screens I am now the proud owner of two AG Neovo F-419 19″ TFTs.
X.org with xinerama running at 2560×1024 on these babies is oh so very sweet. I currently have a permanent grin on my face while using my PC.
It’s not just for show [...]