Hardy Heron and the Dell Precision M4300 July 16th, 2008
Summary: it just works.
Last.fm on Ubuntu Gutsy: smooth as rabbit fur February 3rd, 2008
One of my resolutions this year is to try to cut down on the carbon I spend on music. Notwithstanding my purchase of the In Rainbows discbox, I’ve amassed an awful number of discs of metallized plastic in barely-recyclable containers. (I say “barely” because K. got me a pencil for Christmas made out of old [...]
The full sensory experience of Linux on a Dell M4300: sound, vision and tinfoil-hat microwaves January 7th, 2008
Gutsy Gibbon on a Dell: almost everything has been fixed (edit: see Hardy Heron for absolutely everything being fixed).
Laptop and Linux: the fixes for a Dell Precision M4300 August 28th, 2007
Getting a Dell Precision M4300 to work with a weird Feisty/Gutsy hybrid Ubuntu (edit: upgrading to Hardy Heron eventually fixed everything).
cfcUnit on Linux January 21st, 2007
Adding a helper framework that lets you unit-test your code can speed up development and refactoring no end. With this in mind, I decided to tame a recalcitrant new Coldfusion application by installing cfcUnit on my local Linux box. It was a sufficiently awkward experience that it’s worth sharing the problems I encountered here. I [...]
Dual-head on collision July 21st, 2006
One of the last tasks that moving to my new machine involves is to stretch the Ubuntu desktop across both of my monitors. Our sysadmin had very kindly set it up to work with the monitor card integral to the motherboard, so in principle I only had to tweak the configuration for X, the standard [...]