For whatever reason there is certain a level of incompatibility between various .zip (archive) file formats among various operating systems today. It’s certainly not that you won’t be able to access any file type on any given system, as there are many tools to do so, mostly it’s a question of how many hoops you [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Linux’
April 5, 2010
Buffalo & DD-WRT still kicking ass
My Buffalo WHR-G54S is up and running at another friends’ home in NY. That’s two fresh routers (well one Tomato firmware update) and one used replacement for the utter rubbish Netgear WGR614 v3. The Netgear had an Atheros chipset from 2002 and the firmware prior to flashing an update was 2003. I [...]
April 1, 2010
TFTP after a bad flash on WRT-54G Ver 2.0
Was helping a friend trouble shoot an old Linksys WRT-54G Version 2.0 and I thought it might be worth installing the Tomato firmware and see if it helps minimize the connection drop outs he’s been having. I thought upgrading via the Linksys admin menu would be a snap. I made a couple of mistakes.
1) Always [...]
November 15, 2009
OMG GRUB2 so doesn’t work with GRUB 1.5
I mentioned to both Aris and CC about not being able to get GRUB going, but as it turns out, OpenSUSE had overwritten my 1st 9.04 Xubuntu configuration’s GRUB with it’s own (I believe 1.5) but I’d installed OpenSUSE on a secondary 1.0 TB drive…. when I reformatted that 1.0 TB drive from within a [...]
September 24, 2009
Unetbootin, Vista 32bit hell and other stories
Zoe had a friend who was having some computer problems and I suppose to some extent I brought this upon myself. Thankfully, I now have a strategy. Of course this is probably like 10 hours where I am far too deep in to start strategizing, but I now have a strategy.
Lets pretend for a moment [...]
September 10, 2009
Darwine you are a fine Wine.
For whatever reason I’d never played around with application compatibility layer software like Wine under OS X. Parallels and VMware are quite overkill for most people’s purposes. Usually the user may need to run one application in the guest OS and setting up an entire VM and giving 10GB or whatever over to that [...]
July 2, 2009
WWDC no 802.11n in on the 3G S iPhone!? Drat!
So, with the new iPhone 3.x OS you will not be purchasing an 802.11N enabled wireless chipset. Apparently the new 3G S model does support 4G HSDPA but not 5 GHz 802.11N wireless with the new lower powered Broadcom BCM4325. Apparently the 3G S model is a bit snappier. When is the 802.11n iPod [...]
May 20, 2009
Linux is a temperamental mistress
There is not doubt that you get out of MythTV what you put into it. I spent a good day, post system build, just getting things going. I upgraded to the 180.51 stable NVIDIA driver for the 9400 GT card that I have, at first it presented some problems, but I used Synaptic upgrade manager [...]
