For a while now I’ve owned an older EeePC 1005PE. I love the thing, running kubuntu 12.04 LTS it’s been a work horse for me. Recently I noticed that my wireless was becoming less reliable, plus it lacked 5GHz support … Continue reading
So interestingly on my recent trip to Key West, while my Hero3+ silver was charging, I had the LCD touch bacpac on it, unfortunately for me this resulted in burning in the warning icon which comes up on the screen … Continue reading
Just a reminder, if you’ve got an SSD and any modern Linux distribution fstrim is your friend. I suggest running it as a simple cron job.
In Lustre 2 and above, the inode numbers, which on a standard file system represent the static integer ID of a file now appear to be totally insane, being full 64bit integers. [root@coolermaster lustre]# stat x y z File: `x’ … Continue reading
So after a few months of being carefully packed up (and turned off), I finally had enough free time to unpack my office again and get things going. To my surprise the keyboard wasn’t working correctly. Even though it was … Continue reading
To boot a FreeBSD machine (just about any version) from a single user maintenance boot (boot -s from loader or option 4 from boot menu) into full multi-user mode: # mount -a # swapon -a # exit This will boot … Continue reading
So while playing around with one of the local ski resorts website I decided, hey wouldn’t it be neat to time lapse the whole day by grabbing a frame a second from the public web cam. After collected my images … Continue reading
After some recent file system woes as well as some past system updates I ran into this error while trying to mount my encrypted home directory: Enter your login passphrase: Inserted auth tok with sig [**********************] into the user session … Continue reading
One thing I’ve noticed living here in this apartment is the shear number of wireless networks that propagate throughout my space. Personally I could care less what or where this signal comes from or goes to, however it does present … Continue reading
If you’ve noticed that your knetworkmanager is no longer functioning, likely NetworkManager has gotten it self into a bad state. This can happen on unclean shutdown or crash of the NetworkManager application. That said the solution is quite simple In … Continue reading