Archive for the ‘Troubleshooting’ Category
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 [...]
Posted in Computer, Hardware, Linux, Software, Troubleshooting |
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Tags: 64bit, Arduino, Bugs, Ethernet, Hardware, Linux
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 [...]
Posted in Computer, Gentoo, Hardware, Me, Troubleshooting |
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Tags: Config, Driver, Evdev, Gentoo, Hardware, Linux, Software, update
18
Dec
2009
Posted by Quantum at 11:15 pm
I recently upgraded from Mozilla Thunderbird 2 to the new Thunderbird 3 release. For a few days everything was working fine with the new default settings. I have a few email accounts which Thunderbird fetches mail for and I didn’t want to use the new Smart Folder mode. So I changed back to not using [...]
Posted in Computer, Software, Troubleshooting |
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Tags: Config, Data, Mailserver, Problem, Software, Thunderbird
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Posted in Computer, Gentoo, Hardware, Linux, My Opinion, Troubleshooting |
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