I’m running the beta of Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04) with no problem at all. Everything is working fine and I’m keeping it on the T40.
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Ubuntu and Steam
So far so good. I have tried the following with my Ubuntu installation: Tried to get Compiz running on my laptop Updated Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy to 7.04 Fiesty Fawn Get Steam working on my laptop running Ubuntu Compiz works badly. I think it’s the xserver I am using. I’ve un-installed it already; my laptop probably [...]
Ubuntu 6.10 on a IBM T40 laptop
Update: Well the keyconfig extension no longer works despite hacking the install.rdf in the file. I had to follow the instructions located at this website. On my Ubuntu laptop I did the following at a bash shell prompt: Did a search for “mainKeyset” and right after the line <keyset id=”mainKeyset”> I added the following two [...]
Laptop committed XP suicide
For about a week my IBM T40 laptop has been acting bizarre. It boots, complains about different problems, and none of the network connections work at all. Using the few tools I have for XP, I can’t get the thing to work. It’s gotten to the point where I have to dig out the IBM [...]
eAccelerator for Opensuse 10.0
Updated: I bumped the version from 0.9.5 to 0.9.5.1. The source RPM for 0.9.5.1 can be found here. The 32 bit compiled version can be found here. I no longer have access to a x86_64 opensuse installation but running this command: rpmbuild -bb php5-eaccelerator-0.9.5.1-1.src.rpm should create them on your system. ——————————- I wanted to add [...]
Very Bad Upgrade
Sunday I went to Stefan’s to upgrade my main server. It was running Fedora Core 1 and was well past an upgrade.
I wanted to get away from Fedora because it was not supported in a way that I liked….
XPS 700 BIOS update
Version 1.1.6 of the Flash BIOS is out and can be downloaded here. This version supports 64 bit operating systems. The prior 1.1.3 release would not boot up an x64 Ubuntu live disk. Nice to have a 64 bit Core 2 Duo (what a lousy marketing name) and not be able to play with a [...]
