Category: Linux

Grub on a DL380

July 18, 2008 - Computers , Geek , Linux , Work - by admin - No Comments

Having had the misfortune to be editing the partition table of one of our Oracle servers, I discovered that Grub 0.97 (the SLES SP1 variety) doesn’t play well with DL380 Smart Array Controllers. The magic auto detection that we’ve all grown to know and love just… it just doesn’t. Here’s […]

An Idea

July 15, 2008 - Computers , Cool things , Geek , Internet , Linux , Openstreetmap , Twitter , Web - by admin - 2 Comments

It’s probably already been covered, but my 30 seconds of Google-Fu hasn’t turned anything up so bear with me… Take one OpenMoko phone,Â a geolocation service like Fire Eagle, an online celltower database such as CellDB, and some code to use those lovely d-bus bindings, and you could have a […]

NDSRepair on Linux

July 4, 2008 - Cool things , Linux , Novell - by admin - No Comments

Migrated to OES on Linux, and missing out on that menu driven dsrepair fun? Fret no more, as DSRmenu will nicely wrap up the CLI version of ndsrepair, and put it into a nice menu driven system for you.

KDE4 on Windows…

February 5, 2008 - Geek , KDE , Linux , Windows - by admin - No Comments

It had to be done 🙂 KDE4 on Windows, in VMWare on Linux…

High resolution fonts

January 14, 2008 - Computers , Linux - by admin - No Comments

For a while now, I’ve been running Kubuntu x64 on this shiny Dell D820 laptop. It runs at quite a high resolution for a laptop (1920×1200), and the Nvidia drivers try to be smart by increasing the font dpi. This has the knock on effect of making the fonts ugly […]