All posts under Tag : ThinkPad
Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Tue, Mar 11 2008, 12:23
It's been a day of failures.
BT's infrastructure failed (the wrong sort of rain) and wiped out connections all over my network.
A HD failure in my London server could have caused problems if it were not for the lovely people at Novell and Compa...
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Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Tue, Mar 11 2008, 12:20
SLED 10 Service Pack 1 is achingly close to release, as Novell have begun sending out e-mails asking potential punters to buy it now and enter a draw for a lovely ThinkPad T60. I wouldn't mind one of those, so long as it matched the speed and grace o...
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Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Tue, Mar 11 2008, 12:20
I bought an extended battery for my ThinkPad T43p. It came with some cautionary safety instructions. You know, the usual sort of things.
Never throw the battery pack into a fire.
Never disassemble the battery pack.
Never short circuit the main b...
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Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Tue, Mar 11 2008, 12:19
ThinkWiki is my new favourite site. It combines two fantastic things - Linux and ThinkPads.
For what more could anyone ask?
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Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Tue, Mar 11 2008, 12:19
The main two issues laptop users face with any form of Linux and Slackware in particular, is to make sure you make the most of your graphics and wireless network cards.
My T43p has the following wireless and graphics cards, which you can find typi...
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Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Tue, Mar 11 2008, 12:16
I've just installed SuSE Linux 10.0 on the ThinkPad and I'm impressed. I think Slackware is still fantastic for servers and desktops, great for learning Linux, but for out of the box convenience, especially for a laptop, SuSE 10 is awesome.
Here's...
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Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Tue, Mar 11 2008, 12:15
Since starting to learn Linux, I've shied away from compiling and configuring my own kernel.
There were two main reasons for this.
First, it seemed quite a scary thing to do. It's real easy to zap a working system.
Second, what was the benef...
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Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Tue, Mar 11 2008, 12:15
davidw@t41:~$ uname -a
Linux t41 2.6.15.4 #1 PREEMPT Sun Feb 26 13:39:34 GMT 2006 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
davidw@t41:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1553728 277212 1276516 0...
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Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Tue, Mar 11 2008, 12:14
This wonderful site charts the rise in numbers of Linux users. It can also tell you the average up times of the different kernels.
My three currently used kernels are doing quite well.
Kernel 2.4.29 hosting this blog - 67 day average.
Kern...
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Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Tue, Mar 11 2008, 12:12
I spent a lazy Sunday afternoon fiddling with my hand-rolled 2.6.15.4 kernel on my ThinkPad.
There were two small matters which required my attention.
First was to make sure that when I logged in, the console text was not the jagged unaliased t...
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