28 Jun 2008
Posted by Quantum at 2:11 pm
It’s that time again when another peice of my IT equipment has died. When I say died it’s more akin to requiring the replacement of several major organs at the same time. Thurday night I was going about my usual activities of checking email and surfing the web with my windows desktop and 24/7 linux [...]
27 Jan 2008
Posted by Quantum at 3:55 pm
I have been happily using my notebook without problems since I posted my last update. I was enjoying using it so much I decided to take advantage of the low RAM prices and upgrade from 2GB to 4GB. Running a 64bit version of Gentoo I was just expecting to plug the stuff in, it be [...]
16 Dec 2007
Posted by Quantum at 7:46 pm
SOUND!!! Yes it is now possible to get the ALC268 hda-intel audio chipset working along with the headphone jack. It has taken a few hours trying to hack a solution together from notes relating to other distros but I finally have something acceptable. I guess you want to know how to do it, instructions now [...]
16 Dec 2007
Posted by Quantum at 2:10 pm
Yesterday I purchased a mouse to use with my notebook; I lead such an eventful life. Ordinarily this wouldn’t be worthy of mention, most mice are plug in and use. My mouse however needs to work with Linux and here in lies the problem. Getting a mouse to talk to Linux is getting easier the [...]
06 Oct 2007
Posted by Quantum at 11:23 pm
When a hard disk dies the main priorities are to ensure that there has been little or no data loss and getting the effected system(s) back up and running. The faulty drive is removed and placed to one side. What happens to this drive next? Is it casually discarded, finding its way into the nearest [...]
08 Sep 2007
Posted by Quantum at 1:22 pm
The Belkin Switch2 is a range of KVM switches to switch between 2 computers. Some of the range support usb keyboards and mice and include stereo audio switching, it is these particular models which are of interest. Software isn’t required for out of the box functionality but it can be used to enhance it. Belkin [...]
