Well, I finally got around to installing my new hard disk. I eventually decided not to do a clean reinstall (which I had been considering), then copy the data over from the old disk once the new one was set up, but instead just used dd to create an exact duplicate of the old disk [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Geek Stuff category.
Arch Linux
On Friday, after three days experimentation, Arch Linux replaced Slackware as my main Linux distribution. Slackware is still installed, but the machine now boots into Arch by default. There are a few different reasons for this. One was that GNOME 2.10 is included in the official package repositories, while Slack still ships 2.6 and may [...]
Yay
It’s the end of term, and I have four weeks Easter holiday ahead of me (although I do have some work to do in that time). The sun is shining, and it’s the beginning of spring. Martin Simpson has a new album out, and it’s almost as good as his last two. Things are good [...]
iRiver
Ever since the damp got to my minidisc player in the Philippines, and it became erratic and unreliable, I have been thinking of getting a new portable music player of some description. I have now done so, having got myself a shiny new iRiver H120, which arrived this morning. So far I’m fairly pleased. It [...]
Sitesled’s wobbliness
I’m on the verge of abandoning Sitesled as a webhost altogether, and either finding another free host or just using my Woaf space. Why? Read on… Firstly, over the last month (or possibly slightly more) this site, and indeed all of Sitesled, has gone down for periods of several hours, which was bad enough on [...]
Min-width
As you may have noticed, I’ve been fiddling with this blog’s CSS again. I was never happy with having the width of this page’s content defined as an absolute number of pixels, so I have now set it to be 75% of the window. If you’ve got the window maximized, this amounts to significantly more [...]
Embarrassing discovery
Since I nuked everything on my hard disk the other week, I have been having a recurring problem with Linux. It installs fine, and everything goes well until I attempt to install a new (patched) 2.6.7 kernel, whereupon the mouse stops working. After weeks of messing about, I have finally found the problem: the driver [...]
Slightly more cheerful
Having suddenly found myself with a few free days that I hadn’t been expecting (see my previous entry), and with Slackware 10 on the coverdisk for this month’s Linux Format (meaning I wouldn’t have to bother downloading the disks) I decided to get around to something I have been meaning to do for about two [...]
CSS extraction
I have finally got around to doing something to this blog that I have been meaning to do for a while: I’ve moved the css to an external stylesheet. Yes indeed, now your browser need only download all that css once, rather than every time it looks at one of the pages that comprise this [...]
Standards compliance? Nearly…
I had heard talk of blogger’s templates being standards-compliant a while before I started using it, but only now did I think to check with the W3C HTML validator So I passed in the url of this here blog, and lo and behold, lots of errors. However, examining the output more carefully, all the errors [...]