Saturday, August 7, 2010
A pleasant surprise: partimage and gparted to the rescue
The new Dell laptop here at home took a dive this week. Completely unresponsive to the power button, except for a very low volume whir from the cooling fan. After running the gauntlet of Dell’s support phone tree (as usual the automated system erroneously identified the our hardware as out of warranty when it still has another 9 months to go), we got hooked up with a very nice tech who quickly determined that we needed a full replacement. “Equivalent or better”, or words to that effect.
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Saturday, July 31, 2010
Putting the DNS-321 to work as a home server
A short time ago I wrote about my purchase of a D-Link DNS-321 NAS device.
This article will describe how I set the device up as a home server to provide a number of common network services.
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Monday, July 5, 2010
D-Link DNS-321
Just got my very own D-Link DNS-321 a couple of days ago. Spent the holiday weekend hacking it.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Adobe murders flash 64-bit for Linux
As usual, The Register delivers the news in its own inimitable way.
Adobe euthanizes Flash 10.1 for 64-bit Linux: ‘Expects’ 64bitness later
On Thursday, the company took the beta tag off the 32-bit Flash Player 10.1 for Windows, Linux, and Mac, and it released a slew of security updates for versions 10.0.45.2 and earlier. But at the same time, it posted a statement to the Adobe Labs page announcing the end of the Flash 10.1 for 64-bit Linux beta.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Into an xbox 360
We’ve been suffering through constant “DVD Read Error” messages every time one of the kids tries loading up a game on the used Xbox 360 console we got a little over a year ago. Now that the warranty from Gamestop is expired I finally worked up the courage to crack the box open and perform some old fashioned DVD player lens cleanup.
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