A thread on Reddit nudged me to try the Emacs mail readers again. I have tried a bunch of them (Wanderlust, Gnus, mew) but found them either too idiosyncratic or painful to use, and for the most part just read my e-mail by logging into Google directly. However, I just installed mu / mu4e and [...]

Super quick, just thrown out in the hopes it may save some Googlers some time: I was getting really slow wireless connections on my Buffalo WLI-UC-G300HP adapter with intermittent disconnects. This link had the clearest directions, although: usb_buffer_free and usb_buffer_alloc had changed in the most recent kernel needed to add a device code for my [...]

My Asus EEE 1000h had this really irritating but intermittent bug — it would hang occasionally when I was using it. The keyboard was dead, but a) mouse clicks would still work, and b) I could Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to restart X or Ctrl-Alt-Fn to go to a terminal. So, it wasn’t an absolute showstopper, but it [...]

I used to use Red Hat back when I had to compile special modules for my CD-ROM player, and I flirted with Gentoo for a while until I managed to irretrievably kill my installation with an emerge, but Ubuntu really seems to hit the sweet spot with regards to ease of use and functionality. However, [...]

I decided to get a dedicated server for my project and passion of the moment (more on that later, maybe). As a result, I wanted to set up a CentOS installation so that I could work out all the bugs before uploading. Unfortunately, it turns out that getting CentOS working on a USB drive is [...]

I do love Gentoo, often more than is seemly, but sometimes I don’t want to spend half a day or so compiling everything. So, I installed Dapper on my new box at work. Everything looked great, and the Gnome desktop is certainly nice if a bit of a memory hog compared to XFCE… … but [...]