I’m in the process of writing some longer posts about the stuff I’ve been playing with lately so for now you’re getting another old screenshot to keep you entertained. This shot is from November 2006, it is of KDE with a dark blue theme. The style and window decorations are called “Domino”. In the bottom [...]
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Ok, so this is what you get for not looking at what programs are updated when you type “pacman -Syu”… I failed to observe that Lilo was updated, so after switching off at night I couldn’t turn back on in the morning!
So my computer fires up, and I get the ever pleasant (not!) lilo screen… [...]
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I just returned from a trip to Germany. I was quite pleased to notice, in a shop at a motorway services in France, the presence of a Linux magazine. I’ve often found that in Britain you need to know which shops to find a Linux magazine in because not everywhere stocks them. I don’t know [...]
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With help from dsp on the SWLUG IRC channel I managed to reset the password on the Sparc-box (the hostname is sparky, so I’ll call it that from now on…).
I had to edit the file /etc/master.passwd – this wasn’t as easy as I thought though because neither vi or nano wanted to play ball over [...]
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Today I am playing with my Sparc-box. It is a Sun Ultra 5. It has a 64-bit 333MHz SPARC chip.
It’s fairly quick considering it’s age, which is partly down to the Sparc processor having a reduced instruction set like ARM chips were on the Archimedes (My old 8MHz ARM computer was faster than a 25MHz [...]
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