The curious affair of the missing core: Part 2

Last night was the first time I met with B1ackcr0w in Weston to dicuss the starting of the Weston/Burnham-on-Sea/North Somerset Linux User’s Group. We’ve written a [somewhat brief] action plan to get the LUG going, I really hope it’s a success. Even sitting in a pub with a stranger talking Linux was really fun. [...]

Sleep sleep sleep: part 4 (finale)

I just noticed that I haven’t mentioned that this is not a problem with Archlinux… I don’t know if they’ve just put in a quick work-around to unload the module before sleep/hibernate, or if it’s just that the problem has been solved. Either way: it just works now.

The curious affair of the missing core…

Fairly recently I noticed a change in the information that my computer gives about its cpu, by which I mean that rather than displaying my dual core processor as having two cores it now only appears to detect one. In terms of time scale I really cannot be sure, but I’m pretty convinced that it’s [...]

Here we go again…

For someone who in the past has wasted a lot of time hopping between different GNU/Linux distributions in the past I now have to think of a number of reasons before changing again, just so that I know I’m not just slipping into old habits.
Buying a brand new laptop can be a fairly problematic process [...]

Home Server – Samba

I’ve been wanting to set up a server in my house for a while now and over the last year I’ve played with various services I could run to make the thing useful.
Back around the turn of the new year I learnt to set up a simple web server using apache (I say simple because [...]

LILO!!!

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… [...]

Screenshot

This is my screen as it is today. So far I haven’t added a large desktop environment to my Arch Linux system, mainly for political reasons (And partly because I’m trying to cut down on bulk, both in terms of hard disk space and use of RAM). I found the wallpaper on an image archive [...]

First impressions of Arch Linux…

…are positive!
I’m reminded a lot of Slackware by Arch Linux. This is probably down to two simple facts:
1) They share the Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS) philosophy in terms of package configuration… this means that things are shipped without dumb patches and customisations which could potentially cause problems.
2) Configuration, or at least that which [...]