I’ve been always kind of planning on running Linux on my desktop again, given that I now have pretty much unlimited access to vmware software ;-). I had been running Windows for a while now, mainly because I couldn’t get Ubuntu Edgy to install (jmicron driver bug). With the release of Feisty Fawn, that changed, […]
Still no hard drive protection, but everything else seems pretty good. Suspend and resume works, and joining wi-fi networks seems reliable as well. I’ve got pretty much the best font settings I can hope for with this amount of work. One thing I noticed was that because the X60’s screen doesn’t have the greatest viewing […]
So apparently Microsoft came out with a patch to fix the horrendous Outlook 2007 performance problems. In this article, there is a choice quote from Jessica Arnold, the Outlook program manager: In the long run, she said the company is “definitely investigating” whether to re-architect Outlookâs use of .PST files for local storage, as some […]
Just in case anyone was wondering, at least I’m not the only one that is annoyed by fonts on Ubuntu . As described by that bug report, the most annoying aspect of it is that different applications seem to behave differently. And other reports claim that settings change even if only have a blank .fonts.conf.. […]
I upgraded to the new Feisty kernel, 20-14, and lo and behold, my accelerometer readout started working. I can now run hdaps-pivot to get values as well as hdaps-gl to see a rotating GL rendring of my laptop. That’s cool. Wait, no it’s not. It turns out, although now it can read out values from […]
Further reading of the ThinkWiki led to this page which details installing Feisty onto a T60. While the hardware isn’t exactly the same, the symptoms described on that page (especially with regards to problems with suspend to RAM) sounded familiar, so I tried their suggested fixes, which seem to work. So now my X60 suspends […]
I decided to give the new Ubuntu beta a whirl on my X60. Recently I’ve heard a few anecdotal success stories of running Ubuntu on laptops, so it seemed worth a try. I was concerned about running a beta installer on my work machine, so I decided to run the Edgy installer instead. I backed […]
As you can see, I’ve loaded a new stylesheet for this blog. Partially because I just wanted a change, but also partially because this page looks funny on a Mac. Why, you ask? Well, for some reason Safari likes to do bad things to the text when it’s rendering light text on dark backgrounds. This […]
Normally, I don’t write stuff like this, but Qian asked me for a reference of basic shell commands and I got really depressed about what I found. This page (top 10 linux commands for newbies) has over 1000 diggs, and what’s in it’s top 10? vi ! are you kidding me? Yea, that’s sure a […]
I wrote a previous tip about how to use Monaco while running an xterm on OSX’s X server. Here’s a similar tip, except running on Linux this time. I like Monaco for it’s legibility at small screen sizes, so I wanted to use it in my gvim session. The first step is to copy the […]