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Microcode update?

Posted by Ralf Hildebrandt on 6 February 2011 | 1 Comments

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Did you know that you could update the microcode on (some) Intel CPUs?

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Acer Aspire One woes!

Posted by Ralf Hildebrandt on 2 February 2011 | 0 Comments

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Today my old Acer Aspire One returned to me, because the internal microphone wouldn't work.

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unity in Ubuntu 11.04

Posted by Ralf Hildebrandt on 15 January 2011 | 0 Comments

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Ich weiss nicht, ich weiss nicht. Der Ansatz mehr Platz auf dem Screen zu haben, indem man die Bedienelemente zum Teil nach links verlagert ist sicherlich sinnvoll. Und es funktioniert auch - bisher nur 1x abgestürzt (bei 2x benutzen). Aber es ist gewöhnungsbedürftig!

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OpenWRT 10.03 + X-Wrt

Posted by Ralf Hildebrandt on 27 December 2010 | 0 Comments

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Today I recovered a - now unused - WRT54g router and flashed the new OpenWRT release.

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Chromium features

Posted by Ralf Hildebrandt on 5 December 2010 | 0 Comments

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I just found out that one can enable experimental/new features in Chromium using the URL

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nouveau at work

Posted by Ralf Hildebrandt on 14 September 2010 | 0 Comments

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At work I'm running Maverick Meerkat with a dual screen setup.

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New postscreen version

Posted by Ralf Hildebrandt on 12 September 2010 | 0 Comments

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Today I installed the new Postfix snapshot, containing a new version of the postscreen daemon.

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nouveau

Posted by Ralf Hildebrandt on 22 August 2010 | 1 Comments

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WTF is it with this nouveau stuff? Ubuntu 10.10 introduced a new version of X, which has an ABI change which in turn makes the nvidia drivers fail. This is easily fixed, but I thought I'd give nouveau a try anyway:

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Maverick update @work

Posted by Ralf Hildebrandt on 16 August 2010 | 1 Comments

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The maverick update at work didn't go about as smoothly as at home. This was mostly due to the nvidia driver I'm using to get a dual-head screen. I had to specify:

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Update to Maverick Meerkat

Posted by Ralf Hildebrandt on 15 August 2010 | 0 Comments

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Yesterday I upgrade to Mavick Meerkat. So far, everything seems to work (WLAN, suspend&resume). There is a minor error involving the power manager icon, but in general it's looking good!

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