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EeePC upgrades

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Colin Faber
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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 →

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Gopro LCD touch bacpac burn in issues

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Colin Faber
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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 →

Posted in General Knowledge, Misc | Tagged bacpac, black, burn in, gopro, hero3+, LCD, silver, touch | 2 Replies

TRIM is your friend

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Colin Faber
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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.

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Lustre 2.x and insane inode numbers…

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Colin Faber
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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 →

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My Beloved Logitech K800 keyboard and it’s recent failures….

Posted on June 24, 2013 by Colin Faber
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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 →

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FreeBSD boot from single to multi-user

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Colin Faber
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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 →

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ffmpeg / avconv image to video file…

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Colin Faber
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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 →

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Ah yes, the dreaded “Ecryptfs error locking counter” on your home directory after a reboot…

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Colin Faber
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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 →

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Tune your wifi channel if you’re apartment living!

Posted on October 21, 2012 by admin
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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 →

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Kubuntu “Network Manager Disabled” error 10.04 (Lucid)

Posted on October 17, 2012 by admin
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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 →

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