I purchased a Brill Luxus 38 from Clean Air Gardening a bit back.
In an age where Home Depots are full of riding lawnmowers, why did I make such a Luddite purchase? There are various reasons listed at the People Powered Machines website. Here's some of mine:
I seem to have no end of networking issues recently.
Last night, Andrea had to reboot an Acer 5003 laptop to do some online banking in Internet Explorer. The machine hibernated. When I rebooted in Linux this morning, the ethernet failed to work.
I rmmod'd the module (sis900) and modprobed …
more ...Come gather round people.... (yes I've been listening to too much Dylan lately).
So my trusty 4 year old wireless router (netgear wgr614 rev1) apparently gave up some sort of ghost recently. The ethernet ports still route, and the wireless still sends out a signal, but I can't get an …
more ...Dear (Utah) Lazyweb-
We are moving into a house in Bountiful, Utah soon. Anyone in the area know if I have any options other than Qwest (DSL) or Comcast (cable) for a high speed connection? Any reccomendations? Are people satisfied with the service they get? If so, who are you …
more ...I'll admit it, I dread customer service. (And I've been on both sides, since I did a brief stint in the service organization at my previous employer). And I've blogged about it before as well as another time. So in the spirit of "Cancel my AOL account", I proceed...
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more ...My gentoo desktop machine has been acting flakey recently. Apps stop responding, network inconsistent. Sounds like a hardware problem. So I figured I would check my memory.
Memtest86 to the rescue. Thanks to Ubuntu I had a live cd with memtest86 on it. Actually I had 5 of them. So …
more ...I saw this a few days ago linked to a blog (apparently here is an older version), if I can find where the original came from I'd give them credit.... (Google, how do I seach on an image, not for an image????) Anyway it was being passed around in email …
more ...This evening I attended a SLLUG meeting about deploying django with lighhtpd. I've never messed with lightty before, only heard off hand complaints that it doesn't like python too much.
The perl-esque configuration setup seemed to provide for virtual hosting setup pretty easily (much like webapp-config does for gentoo and …
more ...I've been working mainly with two laptops recently. I normally use ergonomic keyboards with my desktops and was noticing that my wrists were sort of twitching. The solution? Buy a new keyboard. (So I went out and bought an ergonomic keyboard that would work with my laptops (read has usb …
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