Incoherent Keyboard Bashing
Posts tagged linux
Gamers for Linux
Jul 18th
If you run Linux and want to see more support for games, please do your part and sign this petition: http://www.gamersforlinux.com/
Driver design
Mar 26th
One of my 120gb drives failed, so I thought I would finally get around to reorganising my system to the way I want… Linux as primary, and Windows as secondary for gaming etc. It makes sense, since I’m getting ADSL in the next couple of days, and I won’t have the driver issues with my USB isdn adapter under Linux anymore. Now I can finally get rid of this shitty Microsoft platform as my every day OS.
So anyway, I reload, and I realise that I don’t have my LAN drivers handy, so I connect to the website to download them. I eventually find them, a 5mb or so download.
While it’s downloading (yeah yeah, slow ISDN), I’m browsing the site, and I discover this thing called ‘Download Center’. So I check it out. It apparently scans your system, and shows you what drivers you need to download. So I do that, just for the hell of it.
It basically says ‘LAN driver’ – Intel – size: 89Mb. I did a double take. What the fuck? 89Mb for a fucking LAN driver? You’ve got to be shitting me! Jesus, I need a LAN driver, not a frikkin’ operating system. Holy motherfuck, what the hell are these people thinking?!?
And then to add insult to injury, when I closed the window for that ‘Download Center’ software, Internet Explorer crashed. Luverly.
Have I mentioned that I fucking hate Windows?
Can’t wait until the frikkin’ LAN driver is loaded so I can get my faithful firefox running. Sheeee…
QSI Qrap
Sep 17th
I’m really annoyed.
My notebook (HP Compaq nx9000) is currently running Mandrake 10. While I’ve been happy with it, I thought I would give Debian a bash (excuse the pun), since it’s apparently one of those perpetually updated distros (and also one of the oldest), kinda like Gentoo, and I hate having to upgrade distros.
I burn the 2x ISO’s to DVDs, pop it into the notebook, and boot. It starts the installer, and eventually drops me into a menu.
“Right, what now?” I think to myself. I consult various forms of documentation, but all of them refer to menu options that just aren’t on this menu. Weird. Eventually, after a lot of swearing, I realise that it must be my DVD rom drive in the notebook.
To test this theory, I popped the DVD into my PC, and installed Debian. No mess, no fuss.
It’s weird how the drive my notebook reads the disc, but only in a half-assed kind of way.
–update
I finally found updated firmware for my QSI SBW-241 Combo drive here. It’s version VY02-3 (near the bottom). Be sure to grab the flasher executable too.
After upgrading the firmware, my notebook drive can finally read the DVD’s my PC has no problem with. Go figure.
- A side note:
Although the installer gets alot further along than it did before, it’s still not 100%. Oh well. Guess I’ll figure out a network install or something. Piece of shit.
Linux Shminux
Sep 15th
I came across a weird problem.
I can copy a >2gb file from a smbfs mounted share to my local ext3 file system. No problems. Just try copy the sucker back. Dies at 2gb every time.
Hmm. Google finds mention of 2gb filesize limits, but based on old kernels (pre 2.4) and usually in ext2. So I try a search on smbfs instead. Voila. It’s apparently a known problem if you mount a smbfs filesystem. The workaround is to use smbclient’s ftp-like interface to transfer the files.
The con is that you can’t use normal cp or what-have-you (even tried rsync), but the pro is that it’s fast. Much faster than normal cp, and also no 2gb limit. Guess I will be using smbclient for the file copies in future.
Messy messy
Sep 13th
My desk at home is such a mess that I struggle to find my spare network cable that I use to plug my notebook in. Nooo, I don’t have wireless, and I’d hate to try move the 17Gb of data that I need to copy across a wireless link. It would take forever. 100Mbit takes a while as it is.
Heresy!
Sep 13th
Please don’t label me a heretic for saying this, but has anyone ever thought what life would be like if Microsoft (ptooie) stopped fighting Linux and Open Source and brought out their own distro?
Imagine: Microsoft Linux
Now that’s an oxymoron if I’ve ever heard one.