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Monthly Archives: June 2005
gDesklets again
So, the small “eye candy” uptime desklet I have wasn’t working correctly, but a quickl look at the source revealed that it was trying to replace “load average”, but FreeBSD’s uptime returns using the string “load averages”. Quick change, reload … Continue reading
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gDesklets
The good news is that the daemon is now nice & stable, with none of the crashing that has afflicted previous installs of gDesklets. The bad news is that they don’t seem to be able to remember where they should … Continue reading
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gDesklets
One of the motivations for going with gnome desktop this time was the excellent gDesklets. While they can be made to work under KDE it wasn’t pretty and so eventually I stopped using them. Being “native” to gnome they have … Continue reading
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Wireless
I’ve added the iwi kernel module from http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/ and it’s now finding the card and I can initialise it, but it doesn’t quite yet connect to the network. More checking needed I think. While playing I decided to try the … Continue reading
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Gnome
After the excitement of the PXE install I’ve now managed to get the entire system updated, updated the ports tree and then installed (via ports) X windows and the gnome desktop. These are enormous installs and took a while (especially … Continue reading
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BSOD
Harrumph! earlier today my computer suddenly shut down then restarted. Totally out of the blue. The restart resulted in the infamous BSOD Turned out the network adapter had finally given up. Why this should result in such behaviour is beyond … Continue reading
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Me too! Me too!
The other day I was pointed to a screen shot of the latest project by a beos coder. Being a little curious I followed the link and found yet another scheduler project! Yes, that takes to 3 or 4 the … Continue reading
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Shanghai
Been in Shanghai for a few days now and starting to get more used to it. There seems to be a peretual haze (smog?) over the city and visibility has been very poor the whole time. It gets better at … Continue reading
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Shanghai
Visited the Xiangyang Market in Shanghai this morning. Was very hot, humid and full of people! As advertised it was a couple of hours of being hassled and bothered.
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PXE setup
I’ve been starting to try and get things setup so I can install FreeBSD 5.4 onto the X40 today. First off was to move dhcp back to the box that runs FreeBSD. Not a big deal. Then alter the config … Continue reading
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X40 preparation
Now that I’ve been using the X40 for a while and I’m working on the CA again, it’s time to look at getting FreeBSD onto it. I downloaded and burned a 5.4 RELEASE ISO today and have started looking at … Continue reading
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Kinnoull Hill
Stopped in Perth for a walk before getting to Andrews. Was easy to find and was a good walk.
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Wiki’s
Not my favourite thing in the world, but I guess they have their place and some people love them. Problem is they are a spammers dream. You think blog comment and trackback spam is bad – wiki spam is in … Continue reading
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