So yesterday the wife was complaining to me that her Adobe Lightroom installation was not working correctly. The problem she was having had to do with importing files into Lightroom. Basically what was going on was she would open Lightroom … Continue reading
Dell has released A06 BIOS version for the XPS 13 (9333) model. The release notes (available here) are extremely light on detail, however I can tell you it does seem to resolve (at least so far for me, and … Continue reading
So over the last few weeks I’ve been trying to sort out the final problems with my XPS 13. The last, and most annoying problem I’ve seen is the frequent and seemingly random lockups on suspend. This bothers me a … Continue reading
Today I had the task of updating my backup system, for a long time I didn’t bother rolling backups because, well I just didn’t care. However I now wanted to set something up. I remembered long ago that I had … Continue reading
So, back in September I decided to purchase a new laptop, the one I decided on was the Dell XPS 13 Sputnik (9333). This is an Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, 256GB mSATA based laptop which ships with Ubuntu 12.04 … Continue reading
I’ve taken five minutes to generate a new splash screen for my new XPS 13 laptop, it’s a silhouette of the famed Russian Sputnik satellite: Download here
So the last month or so I’ve been working on replacing my aging FreeBSD 7.4 RELENG server, running the stable, but some what scary GEOM RAID5 hack (vintage 2008). The system was a total hack, running in an old mid-tower … Continue reading
Below is a simple script I use almost daily which I thought I would share with you all. The script fetches various URL’s then extracts all hyper links from the fetched data. It cleans them up a bit and prints … Continue reading
So after some messing around I discovered that with Cyanogenmod CM11 (KitKat) release that USB Mass Storage mode wasn’t working, so after some messing around here is what I’ve found. If you’re like me, you enabled developer mode: Go to … Continue reading
After updating my 1005PE with an Intel 6300 network card and additional antennas I wanted to see how fast a real world copy could be through wireless. So I hopped on my internal file server and a large file 9.88 … Continue reading