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Mirabox dist-upgrade causes system to deadlock/hang on bootup 23 May 2013 | 12:25 am
I think there’s something bad going on between GlobalScales patches in the rootfs images they have for download for the mirabox when doing an apt-get dist-upgrade to the latest version of debian. This...
Reflashing GlobalScale Mirabox filesystem 23 May 2013 | 12:10 am
I just worked my way through reflashing the mirabox and figured I’d post some instructions on how to do it. I’ve used the descriptions from this http://www.newit.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=3880.0 pos...
Ubuntu 12.10 on Dell Precision M4600 APIC issues 5 Feb 2013 | 12:46 am
I’ve recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 on a Dell Precision M4600 and had some APIC issues when trying to reboot, the same as everyone else seems to have pretty much. After upgrading the BIOS from A08 to...
XBMCBuntu stole my heart 1 Nov 2012 | 11:11 am
As some who have read this site before might remember, I didn’t have much luck with LinuxMCE as a media center for my home (basically I couldn’t get any functionality working properly. I got a lot of ...
Mat Honan hack “cloud isn’t so bad” comment 10 Aug 2012 | 06:30 pm
Just read this by Ron Miller and while I don’t mind the cloud (I use several cloud services extensively), I do think he’s completely missing the point. Yes, the cloud is as vulnerable as any other ma...
Playing with LinuxMCE and thoughts 30 Jul 2012 | 12:07 am
Long time no writing for various reasons. I’ve played around with LinuxMCE for a few days as it looked like a really sweet solution for home automation etc. I’ve previously had a HTPC running mythbunt...
FMEA of Door and conclusions 14 Oct 2011 | 07:37 am
If Cavemen had done an FMEA of the door when it was invented, this would possibly be the outcome. Item Potential Failure mode Potential Effects of failure Severity Rating Potential Causes Occure...
Finding the Zone. 11 Feb 2011 | 08:41 am
Several years ago at one of my first jobs, right smack at the end of the dot-com boom over here, we had a dartboard. What good is a dartboard you ask? I don’t know, we also had a pinball machine, but ...
Bugs, bugs and more bugs 12 Dec 2010 | 11:25 pm
Lately, I’ve come to realize more and more that bug handling in open source, and specifically in Ubuntu has dramatically declined in efficiency. For years I’ve been extremely satisfied with using Linu...
Ubuntu 10.10 r8192se_pci driver on the Toshiba Satellite T130-17E (Realtek RTL8191SEvB) 10 Dec 2010 | 11:05 pm
I’ve been home for a few days with a really bad back, and the only thing I’ve been able to do is watch tv, and some minor work with the laptop. I’ve been running Windows 7 which it was delivered with ...
