So, last night I tried installing Beryl (since AIGLX and Beryl are now in gentoo portage). It seems that the beryl fork of compiz is going well (I wrote about xgl/compiz's (slow) development models a while back).

But even though the community has taken this very promising project and …

I assume most have seen the Apple switch ads. So being the dork I was, I wondered what a Linux person would look like, if he was invited to the meeting of this odd twosome. Well after two or three years of trying with one person I'm finally going to …

There is an interesting thread in the bazaar-ng mailing list going on right now. Anyway, to make a long story short (and save you from reading ~90 posts in the thread), Linus (of Linux/git fame) said the following concerning BitKeepr which I found quite insightful. (Over a year ago …

Here's a quick command line version based on this blog entry, but containing some steps that it doesn't cover. (I've done this twice in the past month or so, so I thought I'd share the joy)

SSHFS is an adaption of FUSE. FUSE, for those who don't know, allows filesystems …

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 …

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 …

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 …

I'm working on an open source tool for managing war files called warconfig. We have a need for this at work. I have a pretty detailed write up here. Warconfig is a tool for deploying, upgrading, and rolling back war files on Tomcat (currently only version 5.5 on Gentoo …

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 …

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 …