OK, I spoke too soon, I’m back running the 4.3.3 snapshot due to people complaining about echo on the phone. Oh well! 🙁
Category Archives: Linux
Neo Freerunner QT Extended Firmware Fixed
Kudos to Lorn from Trolltech/Nokia on being responsive to the timezone problem I blogged about this morning, he’s released a new version of the QT Extended 4.4.1 firmware which fixes the timezone issue and seems to have made the touchscreen behave properly again!
Only downside at the moment is that it doesn’t seem to want to read the battery information, which is going to make life a little hard (and might be an issue with this kernel instead), but this time I’m happy to stick with it.
Qt Extended (Qtopia) 4.4.1 on the Neo Freerunner
Just upgraded my Neo Freerunner to the new Qtopia, er, Qt Extended release (4.4.1) and I’m now downgrading back to the 4.3.3-snapshot I fortunately kept around. I can’t change my timezone and the touchscreen has become overly sensitive, so I’m going to wait for the next release I think.
Hey ho!
Next Debian release name announced
Squeeze
If you don’t recognise the name from Toy Story, here’s a small hint.. 😉
Image courtesy of Jean-Etienne Poirrier under a CC license.
Scalable Informatics looking for HPC people in Michigan
The ever helpful Joe Landman at Scalable Informatics is looking for good HPC folks around the South East Michigan area, contact info and a bit more information is on their website.
Breakin – stress test and hardware diagnostics for Intel and AMD systems
At the start of August Jason Clinton from Advanced Clustering Technologies Inc. posted a link to the “Breakin” tool that they created (and open sourced) for hardware stress-tests and diagnostics. He wrote:
We have a tool on our website called “breakin” that is Linux 2.6.25.9 patched with K8 and K10f Opteron EDAC reporting facilities. It can usually find and identify failed RAM in fifteen minutes (two hours at most). The EDAC patches to the kernel aren’t that great about naming the correct memory rank, though.
If you read the website though you’ll find it does a lot more than that, which is pretty cool. Be aware that it does use the Intel and AMD closed source maths libraries though if you’re sensitive to non-free software.
MythTV Electronic Program Guide HOWTO for Australia
Chris Smart has written an excellent little guide for getting a decent program guide into MythTV in Australia. It walks you through how to go from scratch through installing and configuring Shepherd to getting the data into the MythTV database. I’ve just used it on my Mythbuntu box and it’s looking good!
Next step – get it to record Time Team every time it appears.. 😉
Linux is childs play
A lovely little quote from Russell Coker in an article about whether he has sympathy for Windows users:
Some time ago the 11yo daughter of a friend who was visiting asked if she could play some computer games. I gave her a Fedora CD and one of the PCs from my test lab and told her that she had to install the OS first. Within a small amount of time she had Fedora installed and was playing games.
Pretty cool..
KDE 4.1 released
So yesterday the release version of KDE 4.1 came out and I’m up and running with it. Very nice!
It’s also fixed at least two of the problems I had with the release candidate, listed below, which is nice!
- Konqueror locks up when you’re using Request Tracker (RT) and try and either reply or comment on a ticket, which isn’t particularly helpful.
- For some reason I don’t seem to be able to drag and drop a lock/logout widget onto the panel, presumably because it’s already full of windows and systray icons.
It is eminently possible that the second problem was just me dragging it to the wrong place though.. 🙂
ASUS SplashTop Linux “hacked” to run on other devices
Phoronix have the details on people getting ASUS’s “instant-on” SplashTop Linux (usually run from the motherboard or, in the ‘Lite’ version, from an NTFS (yuck) partition on the hard disk) going on other hardware, such as booting off a USB stick.