I just upgraded to a (way too) shiny HP Pavilion dv8t laptop and a pair of inexpensive Sceptre 1080p LCD panels. The laptop seems to work pretty well with Linux. I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 with a 2.6.34-rc1 kernel, before the...
Read the post →I saw an article about Stealing from Padre for Vim and I got a bit jealous that this functionality wasn't already available for Emacs. I guess I lucked out because it was very easy to make use of App::EditorTools in...
Read the post →I am a huge fan of whiteboards. I can never have enough. Early last year I started hanging some inexpensive 4’ by 8’ melamine panels in my new home office. One of the three walls wasn’t big enough for a...
Read the post →My Intel 80 GB X25-M G2 in my laptop died recently. Everything was running smoothly when I shut down, but when I powered back up the BIOS couldn't see the drive any longer. Fortunately, I keep pretty good backups, and...
Read the post →I'm starting to get impatient. I really want to start running a next-generation file system. I'd like to have easy to manage sub volumes, block level checksums, and RAID-like redundancy at a higher level.
Read the post →I bought my first Moka Express about a year ago. It is a wonderful little machine. It is very easy to use, simple to keep clean, and durable. It doesn't take up any counter space and it is easy to...
Read the post →I've been fairly unhappy with the battery life of my G1. With the stock 1150mAh battery, I am lucky to get 12 hours out of it most of the time. I was once able to use 49% of my battery...
Read the post →I recently upgraded to Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0. That got me thinking that now might be a good time to clean up my local mail folders. All of my mail from the past few years is stored on my IMAP server....
Read the post →Update: I very much doubt that anyone should be using this anymore. The discard mount option has been working properly for years. In fact, you probably should use hdparm to manually TRIM your drive. You should be using fstrim. It...
Read the post →I've been carrying a small roll of duct tape in both my wallet and laptop bag for years. I've been taking advantage of the fact that duct tape is the same width as a business card. You just roll some...
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