Recently, my trusty old iRiver H120 has been running low on space. It had finally got to the point where if I wanted to put a new album onto it, I would have to delete one that was already there. So clearly it was time for an upgrade. However, replacing the player would be difficult. …
I have for the last week been trying out the Rockbox alternative firmware for my DAP. Sound quality is, as far as I can hear, about the same. The sound quality using the standard firmware is excellent and this is still the case with Rockbox. Feature-wise, Rockbox is well ahead of the default iRiver firmware. …
Whee! I’ve finally got this blasted 2.6.14-ck7 kernel working, without having to bugger about with an initrd. The last time I tried to install kernel 2.6.14, I ran into difficulties when my usual method of configuring it was foiled. Generally I start with the .config file used in the default Arch Linux kernel, then run …
So, on Thursday, I decide to try to get Apache to sneakily substitute files from another server without telling anyone (I have my reasons). I had got a vague idea of how to do this sort of thing while looking up how to automatically redirect visitors from one domain to another. I start by searching …
Hmmm. http://store.yahoo.com/pckeyboards/cusnonusen.html http://store1.yimg.com/I/pckeyboards_1834_1082218 Should I or should I not?
Well, that was embarrassing. I’ve just figured out why my machine was the only one that could (a) get DHCP information from my wireless router and (b) connect to the Internet through it. That in itself is a good thing. The fact that the problem turned out to have been caused by my stupidly misunderstanding …
My new digital camera arrived today. With the money I got for my birthday from my parents and grandparents, I bought myself a Kodak Cx7530, and am so far very pleased with it. It takes good,clear pictures quickly and easily, which is all I really want it to do. I took this photo with it …
Yay! Lilypond works! I tried installing it a while ago, but there was something wrong and it didn’t work properly. Then last week the Arch texinfo package was updated, and it didn’t work at all. Today, however, a new lilypond package appeared in the repository, and now it all works just fine. Hurrah! Whether the …
Another geeky post, but today I finally got around to making a note of my computer’s IP address, putting PuTTY onto my iRiver*, and trying to ssh into my computer from one of the machines on campus. I originally set up sshd on Monday night (hence my learing about the /etc/hosts.* files), but on both …
Well, well, well. Apparently, Arch Linux is set up by default to refuse all incoming conections. /etc/hosts.deny contains the one line (besides comments) ALL: ALL: DENY, and /etc/hosts.allow is empty. It is nice, upon learning what these files do, to find such a paranoid default.