How upgrading the nVidia driver fixed compositing on my Slackware machines, after upgrading to xorg-server-1.7.7 and kdegraphics-4.4.3.
Archive of posts filed under the computer stuff category.
Killing CloneZilla Live
Installing CloneZilla Live on a hard drive: Phase 1
My Mistake(s)
How my confusion over a domain transfer taught me that Register.com has excellent support.
O.K. Google: WTF?
Update: As of 14:16 EDT US, the Google search page is back to normal. Hooray! This morning I find that www.google.com now has a background image that I hate! From what I can tell, the only way to get rid of it is to sign in with a Google account. WTF?!? Let me think . [...]
VMWare Workstation 6.5.4 with Linux kernel 2.6.33.4
Compiling VMWare modules under Linux Kernel 2.6.33
Slackware64 13.0 on the MacBook: sound
With the stock kernel, 2.6.29.6, I had to install the latest alsa drivers from: http://www.alsa-project.org/ and still, I had sound only from the right channel. This may have been my fault I added the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/sound: options snd_hda_intel model=mbp3 Anyway, I decided to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.34 and found that its drivers [...]
Slackware64 13.0 on the MacBook: wireless
Broadcom b4322 wireless install for Slackware64 on a unibody MacBook
vsftpd and the dreaded “500 OOPS: could not bind listening IPv4 socket”
During a server move from Slackware 13.0 to Slackware 64 13.0, I encountered the dreaded “500 OOPS: could not bind listening IPv4 socket” error from vsftpd. As you may know, Slackware runs vsftpd (and some other services) from inetd: the internet “super-server.” After a bit of searching and some piddling around, I found a very [...]