Or, for an alternate title, “How to manually set a speed on your optical drive”. I have an aging Thinkpad T61 (maybe the last one to have shipped to North America with SuSe Linux pre-installed!), and it has an optical drive that creates quite a noise and serious vibrations when running at full tilt. So […]
So you took the plunge to get a good router instead of a flaky $40 plastic box of crap. Good choice. But if you use a wireless bridge then you probably should be aware of the following problem and fix. There are numerous huge gaping security holes in the older (and possibly, depending on when […]
Several people requested the slides from my talk, “The Hotrodder’s Guide to Maximum Performance LAMP” immediately after my talk … so here it is! OpenDocument Presentation Slides
I found myself wanting to put FAHScreensaver in as a proper screensaver in Linux, partially because it looks nice but mostly because the idle detection in Linux by Folding@Home seems to be broken. So here are some steps to make that happen. These steps assume you have root or otherwise privileged access to the machine […]
If you’re like me, you just can’t bring yourself to get rid of a perfectly usable computer, particularly an old Thinkpad workhorse. However, in the case of my Thinkpad T21, even in Linux it is being forced into obsolescence, primarily by the graphics card (01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Graphics Ltd. 86C270-294 [SavageIX-MV] (rev 13)). […]