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Today I had my first real trial of Ubuntu netbook remix (9.10). This is an an Eeepc 1008HA netbook. Netbook remix has a nice “launcher” which takes over the whole screen and uses large buttons. This is great for me as I can’t use trackpads at all The other big bonus is that “maximus” maximises [...]

I’ll write up a bit more in a while on [http://bitcube.co.uk Bitcube], but for the record: full_scans: 71 max_kernel_pages: 128571 pages_shared: 13640 pages_sharing: 19803 pages_to_scan: 100 pages_unshared: 79285 pages_volatile: 322 run: 1 sleep_millisecs: 20 KSM is “Kernel Samepage Merging” and is a way to share memory between virtualisation instances, thus saving huge amounts of memory. [...]

Yes, part of the point of this blog entry is to check that wordpress will tweet all my blog posts automatically Identi.ca is basically an open source twitter, it will be interesting to see where it goes, but ATM at least it can feed twitter quite nicely. Unfortunately I still have to follow twitter to [...]

I’ve been a keen Linux user for just shy of fifteen years now and there have been many, many changes, but I’m just going to look at the “desktop” side and see how things have changed (or not). “Out of the box” – this has drastically improved. Sound normally works now and general hardware support [...]

In a follow up from yesterdays entry, I opened up my graphics card (Nvidia 8800GTS) and got rid of the dust. As you can see – there was quite a coating! Shame Nvidia made it so hard to clean (there’s normally a cover over this lot so you can’t see it, or clean it), I [...]

Recently my desktop has become a little noisier than usual (it is pretty quiet). After some investigation I found that the cause was the fan on the graphics card. Using nvclock you can find out (retrospectively only AFAICT) the fan speed, let’s reduce it to 40%: sudo nvclock -f -F 40 Current fanspeed: 1612 RPM [...]

Pulseaudio seems to cause many, many problems for a lot of people. Unfortunately that’s partly the nature of audio applications on Linux. Let me explain. Only one program can talk to the soundcard at once – so you can either listen to OGGs/MP3s or get IM “ping”s, but not both. Obviously this is a tad [...]

I’ve just setup my server at home with a few VTs logged in as root, just makes troubleshooting a little easier. Details are up at: http://bitcube.co.uk/content/console-auto-login

Or perhaps anti-”Pro Ubuntu Server Administration” would be a more accurate title. Anyhow, my first HantsLUG [http://hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BookReviews/ProUbuntuServerAdministration book review].

After a highly entertaining talk by Andy Stanford-Clark, I have finally wired up my CurrentCost meter to the computer. In fact it’s a shiny new [http://www.currentcost.com/product-cc128.html CC128] device which can accept multiple inputs. A short while later and I have made this Nagios plugin so that I can monitor it using Opsview. Graphs in a [...]