My Favourite Utilities
Spinrite is a disk maintenance and repair utility. Originally created to deal with spinning disks in mind, it has also been discovered to work on SSDs. Remote Utilities is a remote access/maintenance utility.
A Bit of Plumbing
So the bathroom tap was dripping. In fact it was more like a little stream. I am not a plumber. I checked online for some help changing a washer, but couldn’t find my tap. This what it looks like. The main problem was getting the top off. With most taps, there is a little plastic […]
Linux bluetooth audio: using alsa and a2dp
I got a pair of bluetooth headphones for Christmas, and they have made listening to music so much easier. The model is Zoom 4380. I used them with my phone, and the absence of wires from the phone (and the little drop-down speaker stalk) makes calling cool too. The only problem I have atm is […]
HD DVD steps with linux: read the disk, stupid
I recently bought a Acer 5920 to replace my old Dell 510. I went for a machine with more clout this time, since I sometimes use it for work. It came with Vista Home Premium, but I installed Gentoo on the spare partition, and spend most of my time there. They co-exist without problems. One […]
Turning to Gentoo
I like Slackware. When I was a total newbie, someone suggested SUSE, but after a little while, when I wanted to know what was going on ‘under the hood’, it got complicated. Back then, Yast was ok, probably not as comprehensive as today. I tried Slackware, and liked its simplicity, and clean-ness. It didn’t provide […]
encfs and automount
I started using automount to mount devices, and drives on the fly. I works nicely, and almost effortlessly, once you get the hang of configuring it. No more typig mount etc. etc. had me sold. This is with Gentoo. But when I wanted to manage a secure area on my laptop, so it mounted when […]
Perlpod update
I have been using a perl script I got here to get my BBC podcasts, and Java Posse broadcasts. Until recently, that is… Anyway, I hacked the script, to remove carriage returns out, so the url in the enclosure (that’s the mp3) is again being fetched. Find it perlpod here. md5sum for the file is: […]
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