I bought a Samsung Series 7 laptop (specifically, the NP700Z5B-S01UB found at Best Buy stores) and am very happy with it. But it’s only got a native HDMI port, and not a VGA one. There was a second, smaller port, labeled “Display Port” and so I thought it would mean that it was a DisplayPort connection, [...]
I’ve got my Nexenta Core box in the basement which I love. It’s fast, has plenty of storage, and “just works.” I’d had it on my list to get around to using CrashPlan, but that was back when I was using unRAID and that’s based on Linux. However, CrashPlan is largely Java, and they even [...]
I still see a lot of referral traffic for the Linux icon conversion tool I wrote probably 10 years ago now. After many years of the code hiding out on some forgotten hard drive, I’ve pulled it out, made sure it compiles on a modern Linux box, and am posting it for download here. Personally [...]
Most computer geeks know about SMART, or at least have heard of SMART, the built in system in hard disks to monitor their health. The problem with SMART is that it’s data, not analysis. Unless you know how all the numbers work together, it’s not terribly useful information. While trolling the unRAID forums today, I [...]
I recently decided to finally figure out what the bizarre boxes were I saw on lots of pages related to cell phones. Turns out it’s a 2-D barcode that contains information which a cell phone camera can read, decode and act on. I’ve added the QR codes to my site here, such that you can [...]
I got my invite to try out the Jolicloud alpha yesterday. While this netbook isn’t listed in their supported (or unsupported) machines, initial install is working OK. Wifi works out of the box, and I suspect it’s not using the best video driver but video does work at the proper resolution. I wanted to put [...]
The next OS (and last) that I care about getting working on the Gateway LT3103u is Ubuntu. This is the OS that I use day to day, and so the most interesting to me. Unfortunately, the current release of Ubuntu, 9.04, is currently using kernel 2.6.28, which isn’t new enough to have working wireless drivers [...]
I’ve seen people searching and looking for information on this netbook and Linux, and I know how little is out there, so I figured I’d get this post started, even if it is a bit premature. I just finished installing Fedora 11 using the Install DVD. Unfortunately, I failed to get the OS to install [...]
I wanted to write up a quick post about this, since I had searched in vain for information on this when I was fighting with it last night. I just picked up a Gateway LT3103u which comes with Vista. Reports say that Windows 7 runs far better on netbooks than Vista, and I had a [...]
I’m building a custom Live CD for a friend, it’s basically an automated custom Linux installer. Anyhow, after the disc has been created, I needed some files on the ISO filesystem (not inside the squashfs filesystem). There’s a program for windows called Power ISO I think, that can do this, but I wanted to do [...]