I haven't noticed any killer features in KDE SC 4.4 and I've been running it since Beta 1. I've noticed a lot of subtle improvements. Things like app stacking and selection in the task bar seem much more responsive. All around, plasma looks subtly better and my favorite KDE …
more ...If you run a public mail server, there is a good chance you run SpamAssassin.
There is a New Year's SNAFU in which any dates 2010+ are marked "grossly in the future". That is a problem since it is now 2010.
Run sa-update and restart SpamAssassin ASAP, or install the …
more ...Sun Microsystems has a powerful and favorably priced entry in the x86 workstation space with the Ultra 27. Such is the power of this workstation and its natural fit for *nix workloads, combined with a compelling price tag, I pronounce it the Ultimate Linux Workstation in its class. He's a …
more ...Here's a video to accompany my previous blog post Windows 7 has definite backlight problems ("Black Screen of Death"). As mentioned before, I cannot reproduce this in Arch Linux. The problem began after a recent "Patch Tuesday".
Microsoft has been denying any problems like this in the media. Comment if …
more ...There is definitely a problem in Windows 7 RTM with the "Black Screen of Death" despite MS propaganda stating otherwise. This one has nothing to do with 3rd party antivirus software.
The particular problem I am having and see lots of reports on forums is that the backlight is not …
more ...DRBD has been a long standing external patch in many distribution kernels. It has finally been merged in the 2.6.33 window. Colloquially the "Distributed Redundant Block Device", this piece of code allows you to mirror blocks of storage across multiple nodes.
This is primarily useful in high availability …
more ...Here's my easy and modern guide to getting pleasant looking fonts on Gentoo with minimal effort.
Wikipedia rendered with the end result of this guide
Enable the following USE flags:
euse --enable truetype type1 cleartype corefonts
and make sure everything is built with them enabled:
emerge -uDNa world …I did some minor updates to boo2pdf. Graphics should now be within the page margins. Please let me know if there are any other common formatting mistakes.
Unfortunately, IBM's "transmogrifier" utility doesn't work very well in Wine, so you should preprocess older books in Windows before running them through the …
more ...I recently upgraded my trusty ThinkPad T42 to Windows 7. Unfortunately, the screen-off keystroke no longer works. Some quick Googling showed that people made their [own handlers in C#][]. Well, that sucks if you don't have the .net CLR. This is not a problem on Windows 7, but I also …
more ...I'm happy to report that the updated Gitco Xen 3.4.1 repo is working well on CentOS 5.4.
If you are doing link bonding and bridging in accordance with my previous post "Xen 3.3 in RHEL/CentOS 5 and more Link Aggregation Fun", you no longer need …
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