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04
December

Acer Aspire Revo R3600

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My latest improvement to my home desk area is an Acer Aspire Revo R3600, i currently have an old Acer Power F1 under my desk driving a second monitor running ubuntu 9.10 (sort of the 9.04 -> 9.10 update shafted it slightly). I use Synergy to let me use the mouse and keyboard on my [...]

03
November

Slax from FOG (PXE Grub Menu)

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Right a little background to begin with, I use FOG in a few schools to image my machines and i have been thinking about adding some more functionality to the PXE Menu, namely a live distro so that i can quickly rule out driver problems etc… on machines by leaving windows, it also allows for [...]

11
June

Fedora 11 for the Wind

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Well the time has come to update the wind to Fedora 11. So i opened up the “PreUpgrade” Utility and set it off. 3 hours later the download had finished (Wireless was a mistake) and it was time to reboot, so i rebooted the wind and was greeted by anaconda. It asked for nothing and [...]

06
April

New Wireless Card for the Wind

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My new wireless card for the Wind turned up today. I was surprised how easy it was to open up, after the eee put up a quite a fight. Once i got the screws out the back simply lifted off and revealed all the slots i needed. First off the RAM clipped in nice and [...]

28
December

Lan Party user for Whitefall

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For LAN6 (which starts tomorrow) we want to have an FTP server, the best suited to do this job was Whitefall as it has 2 gigbit ports, which can have a static IP each, although the HDD isnt fast enough to saturate 2 gigbit ports, it will benefit from using 2 ports instead of one.
The [...]

26
September

Arch on the eee

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Stage 1 – Get your install media
By far the most important thing is the install media, without this you will go no where :p
I used the latest version form the arch site. I got the .img that i dd’ed to a pendrive. It was then as simple as booting to a USB device.
Stage 2 – [...]

25
September

eee PC

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I have finally caved into my want for an eee and ordered one… I intend to wipe it and install Arch Linux on it. From what ive read arch should be reasonably stable on it. But i will be happy if i can get the wireless card to work, i already have a laptop that [...]