Month of February, 2007

U.S. Daylight Savings update test for Linux

Wed, 02/21/2007 - 9:37am — Nick

For those of you running Linux or Solaris, here's a Perl script I found that will verify that your system is properly updated for the Daylight Savings changes in the U.S. for this year:

Note to self

Tue, 02/20/2007 - 11:15pm — Nick

NoMachine's NX Free Edition Linux terminal client and the Synergy server don't seem to get along when running at the same time, at least on Linux. It seems to be a case of how the programs take over the mouse causes issues with sending mouse events through the NX Client. Not a big problem, as I can just run the NoMachine NX Client on the windows machine to the left while it's running the Synergy client without issue. Or shutdown Synergy server if I need to run the NX Client on the Linux notebook.

Supernova Effect 5

Mon, 02/19/2007 - 1:00am — Nick

Fifth supernova-nebula image I created from this tutorial.

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My Current Workstation Setup at Home

Sat, 02/17/2007 - 2:31pm — Nick

This is my current workstation setup. I pretty much just reorganized my room to set this up so I can access all of my systems without having to go back and forth around the room. I can control all three systems visible from the laptop in the middle thanks to Synergy, and I can access and control a Linux server I have off-camera to the left with NoMachine's NX Free Edition Linux terminal server.

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Supernova Effect 4

Fri, 02/16/2007 - 2:08pm — Nick

Fourth supernova-nebula image I created from this tutorial.

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Ubuntu Edgy running AIGLX/Beryl

Sun, 02/11/2007 - 5:58pm — Nick

Some of the notebook stats:

2-year old Sager NP4780 ULTRA Laptop

17" WXGA+ (1440 x 900) TFT Active Matrix

ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 PRO w/128MB DDR

2.8GHz Hyper-Threading Intel Pentium® 4 Processor w/512k L2 Cache - 800MHz System Bus Speed

160 GB Hard Drive

1GB (2 SODIMMs) PC3200 DDR400 Memory

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Reinstall Successful!

Sun, 02/11/2007 - 5:49pm — Nick

Well, I managed to upgrade to Ubuntu Edgy 6.10, though the path to this upgrade was a bit rocky. I've tried to get the ATI proprietary ("fglrx") drivers working with Beryl, but apparently, the latest release of Beryl has something that is incompatible with the ATI driver. After about 4 attempts at making this Edgy-fglrx-XGL-beryl combination work, I decided to give the open-source "radeon" driver a try with the AIGLX extension to X.org.

Notebook Linux Upgrade

Sat, 02/10/2007 - 9:30pm — Nick

Currently in the process of upgrading my Sager notebook. I had Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 on there, and I'm upgrading it to Ubuntu Edgy 6.10, following these instructions. Unfortunately, I've customized my install of Dapper with a few tweaks...