At first I thought this would be a simple thing to do. After all, linux has great FAT32 filesystem support right? All I would need to do is format my iPod for windows and then everything would be great… right? Then I remembered that I don’t have windows running on any of my machines! Well […]
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Ruby Gnome Development With Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
I’ve been a ruby lover for a while, but I haven’t been able to do any free time programming. Last night I found some time and decided to start a little ruby-gnome2 project on my pc at home which runs Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. I was amazed to see that it was not as easy as […]
Kmail in KDE 3.5.4
What is the deal? I add a new imap account and it doesn’t show up until I close Kmail and then open it again? And then it doesn’t accept even the correct username and password (ok fine that might have been a server issue… maybe) and then I try to just cancel and it won’t […]
How to install OpenBSD on an eMac (the hard way)
It’s easy to install OpenBSD on mac hardware the right way. Simply download what you need and follow the install guide. What’s not so easy is installing OpenBSD the wrong way. This guide is intended to help someone who may have gotten anxious and strayed from doing things The Right Way(tm) [see also, The Easy […]
The Birth Of Hecate (The Wireless Router, Not The Goddess)
After much struggle (see the post entitled “my new wireless router”) I gave birth to a new wireless router. Her name is Hecate, after the Greek Goddess of crossroads, wilderness, ghosts, Wicca, etc. (see the wiki entry). The system board is a Soekris 4801-60. I found a great wireless card and antenna (and pci to […]