30 Nov 2011
Posted by Quantum at 9:04 pm
During my upgrade from Fedora 15 to 16 several things broke, this is nothing new there were alot of major graphical components updated. Those issues were resolved in the week following the F16 release. What I had not expected to break was my network printing setup. In all the years I used Gentoo and upgraded [...]
31 May 2011
Posted by Quantum at 11:28 pm
I took the plunge a few days ago and updated my machines to Fedora 15. The results have been mixed. My netbook and laptop were the first to be upgrades with Intel and Nvidia graphics respectively. Both upgraded fine and the Gnome 3 experience was ok, if a little strange. The problems started with my [...]
31 Aug 2010
Posted by Quantum at 8:09 pm
This week I took delivery of a 40GB Solid State Drive (SSD) an a copy of Windows 7 Professional to give a boost to my quad core box. Windows XP has had a good run and it is getting to the point where an OS upgrade is needed to get the best out of the [...]
20 Jun 2010
Posted by Quantum at 6:04 pm
I have been trying for the past few hours to get the simple web server sketch working with an arduino board and my recently acquired ethernet shield. All seemed to be going well the sketches were uploading to the board and I was able to ping the ip address over the network. Why then could [...]
08 May 2010
Posted by Quantum at 4:25 pm
For the past few weeks I have been having some performance glitches with the way my mouse interacts with my Linux machine. The mouse would move and the buttons operate normally except for when trying to press and hold the left button for example. The action would appear to terminate after a few seconds and [...]
10 May 2009
Posted by Quantum at 10:55 pm
Let me start by outlining the recent issues I have been having with electronic devices. Usually they behave as expected and under normal circumstances and change in this normal behaviour is easily recognisable. Problems occur however when multiple events coincide and reveal a change in behaviour or problem. Such an event recently occured; my previous [...]
21 Apr 2009
Posted by Quantum at 5:48 pm
Recently when applying the updates to my Gentoo Linux machines a new version of Xorg-Server was presented. Normally package updates are straight forward, this one on the other hand needed a big change in drivers and config files. My main issue with the upgrade is the poor upgrade documentation, there is a lack of detail [...]
01 Dec 2008
Posted by Quantum at 11:00 pm
Well it’s that time of year again; the time the wallet starts to strain as money is removed from it. To ease myself into the spending spree which will happen over the next few weeks I have treated myself to a Gigabit Switch and a toner cartridge. They may not be exciting items for most [...]
30 Sep 2008
Posted by Quantum at 7:06 pm
Well its the end of September and it has been an expensive month. Part of this is down to my wreckless IT spending the other down to an automotive parts supplier. Early this month I had a problem spring out of nowhere, the hard disk in my old laptop died suddenly. I didn’t loose any [...]
29 Jul 2008
Posted by Quantum at 11:19 pm
Low power CPUs are a big thing at the moment with the surge in popularity of netbooks and mobile devices. I found a very good review of the parts on offer from Intel and VIA. Read the Review.
