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Comment on Cheaper international Linux Journal subscriptions by Michael-John Turner

Michael-John Turner — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:28:43 +0000

Thanks for the heads up Mark – I’ve fixed the link above

Comment on Cheaper international Linux Journal subscriptions by Mark

Mark — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:37:19 +0000

I hope everyone takes advantage of this offer.
The link should be :
https://secure.linuxjournal.com/subs/newsub/print_intl?promo=M96INTL

Comment on Ubuntu 9.04 Upgrade on the HP Mini-Note 2133 by Ashwyn

Ashwyn — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:42:28 +0000

I just upgraded to 9.04 after having used 8.10 with the via kernel module. Under 8.10 I could not get the proper screen resolution, and had to make do with about 3/4 of the screen space that my monitor was capable of.

When I upgraded to 9.04, I had no graphics initially, as I had kind of expected, so I just reinstalled the via drivers, restarted and now my proper screen resolution is displayed, AND I can use compiz!

Strange sidenote, previously under 8.10, the only way I could get my proper screen resolution, was to plug in an external monitor, and then restart my computer. It would then display correctly on my laptop screen until I had to restart again.

Comment on Ubuntu 9.04 Upgrade on the HP Mini-Note 2133 by Michael-John Turner

Michael-John Turner — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:07:32 +0000

I haven’t had a chance to test my 2133 with an external monitor, but it may be worth using Option “SWCursor” in the appropriate Device stanza in xorg.conf. I’ll hopefully have a chance to fiddle a bit later today – if I get it working, I’ll be sure to let you know.

Comment on Ubuntu 9.04 Upgrade on the HP Mini-Note 2133 by Rick B.

Rick B. — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 04:38:16 +0000

Thanks for the link. I tweaked the xorg.conf shown there and now I get a display on the external monitor. The only problem is that the cursor does not display.

Comment on Pens, lots of pens by Charl Botha

Charl Botha — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:07:21 +0000

The fact that you are a Moleskine Person just confirms my positive opinion of you.

Comment on Ubuntu 9.04 Upgrade on the HP Mini-Note 2133 by Michael-John Turner

Michael-John Turner — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:58:02 +0000

Thanks for the info – I didn’t have xforcevesa in my menu.lst (my 8.10 install was done in text mode using the alternate ISO).

According to the Gentoo Wiki, the OpenChrome driver does support an external monitor – haven’t tried it yet, but it may be worth a look.

Comment on Ubuntu 9.04 Upgrade on the HP Mini-Note 2133 by Rick B.

Rick B. — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:00:35 +0000

I upgraded my HP 2133 to 9.04 today. I was using the via proprietary driver but when I rebooted after the install, it went back to using the vesa driver. I removed xforcevesa from the grub menu.lst and put “openchrome” in xorg.conf and it then displayed the 1280×768 screen. But openchrome does not seem to support output through the VGA port. Is there a fix for this or do I have to wait for the proprietary driver to be updated?

Comment on Not all USB flash drives are created bootable by Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:46:11 +0000

It also depends on which BIOS you use. I’ve found that some bioses will boot those flash drives that are being difficult.

Comment on British Airways’ special meals policy by Michael-John Turner

Michael-John Turner — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:46:58 +0000

Flying at 6:40am normally means I don’t have time to eat breakfast before I leave home, so being able to have a meal (albeit not a particularly tasty one) on the plane is rather handy.

Comment on British Airways’ special meals policy by JohnnyFox

JohnnyFox — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:13:44 +0000

It’s 40 minutes from Gatwick to Manchester. How much meal do you need for 40 minutes? Get over it.

Comment on Re-bootstrapping pkgsrc by jonathanjg

jonathanjg — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:50:26 +0000

There were some minor differences in the above to the way I do things, for reference:

I also do
./pkg_delete -ff nawk
./pkg_delete -ff nbsed
./pkg_delete -ff audit-packages-1.46

And have a call to ./cleanup before the ./bootstrap step

Comment on Re-bootstrapping pkgsrc by hubertf

hubertf — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:10:18 +0000

funky, i went through a similar process the other day. instead of trying to update in-place, i’ve opted for creating a new, second installation in a separate directory. gave me time to rebuild everything, then switch the /usr/pkg symlink. I wanted to blog about this, as I was really impressed how smooth things worked. I did this on Debian Linux and Mac OS X (Tiger) btw.

– Hubert

Comment on British Airways’ special meals policy by Michael-John Turner

Michael-John Turner — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:26:40 +0000

Yeah, you’re right – the train would be much nicer. Only crummy thing is that because of the schedules, I wouldn’t be able to get to work before 10:00am or so.

Comment on British Airways’ special meals policy by David Laing

David Laing — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:58:15 +0000

Flying to Manchester! Tsk. Train is much nicer; you leave & arrive from the center of the city, and if you book 3 weeks in advance the tickets are even close to reasonably priced! Not to mention your carbon footprint…