Tag Archives: Linux

RIP N810

Posted on 2011-03-31 by pappp

My N810 finally bit it yesterday – The touchscreen gave out earlier in the week, and after re-seating the ribbon connector (again), it rebooted with serious video artifacts/flicker/discoloration. When I opened it back up to try again, the connector literally … Continue reading →

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Package Manager Security

Posted on 2011-03-25 by pappp

(The following is long, rather technical, and somewhat esoteric. Sorry, it’s what I do.) I try to keep reasonably abreast of developments in Arch Linux, since it has been my favorite distribution for about seven years now, and the OS … Continue reading →

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Marksbury Movein

Posted on 2011-03-20 by pappp

I’ve had a couple neat projects eating up my spring break, but one of the bigger ones has been helping move the KAOS group into UK’s new Marksbury Building. So far it seems nice and very attractive, albeit a little … Continue reading →

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Chromium

Posted on 2010-01-31 by pappp

I downloaded Chromium (google chrome, but purely FOSS, so there is a build that can be grabbed directly from the Arch repos) to play with this weekend, and it is way more promising than last time I played with it. … Continue reading →

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Reference Manager

Posted on 2010-01-27 by pappp

I’ve decided I need to start using a reference manager utility. My old system of keeping a text file full of BibTeX entries in a folder with pdf’s, with an extra “file:” field for the file name of the document … Continue reading →

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Karmic Koala

Posted on 2009-10-31 by pappp

I (probably foolishly) bumped my spare machine (which has lately acted as a jukebox/CIFS server) to Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” the day it was released, since the machine doesn’t do anything critical. For a point upgrade on a fixed release … Continue reading →

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xlock on pm-suspend

Posted on 2009-10-25 by pappp

I’ve always preferred that my machines be locked when they wake up from sleep/suspend/hibernate/etc., and this has been a little bit of a fuss to hand-configure on Linux of late. The problem is that the pm-utils suite that almost all … Continue reading →

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N8x0 PowerVR Drivers!

Posted on 2009-10-16 by pappp

Since the N800 came out there has been a lot of rumbling in the community about the unutilized hardware present in the device (and it’s sibling/successor, my beloved N810). The piece most complained about are the PowerVR MBX 3D accelerator … Continue reading →

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