I was getting tired of WordPress telling me that my version of Mozilla Firefox was out of date, so I decide to see if I could build the latest version for my Slackware64 13.37 workstation. This is the journal of that journey. If you’re looking for directions without all the commentary and interesting stuff, try [...]
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Installing Mozilla Firefox 6.0.2 on Slackware 13.37
A cookbook kinda how-to for installing the latest (v 6.0.2) Firefox on your Slackware64 13.37 box
Ubuntu 10.10 on a MacBook 1.1
Making the iSight work under Ubuntu 10.10 on a MacBook 1.1
Google Chrome on Slackware: Go Borderless!
When I upgraded Google Chrome to version 6.0.472.53, borders appeared around the window: these borders were not there when I was running version 5.x and I was not happy! After wasting much time creating a Window-Specific behavior–causing my KDE theme’s minimize, maximize and close buttons to disappear–I realized that what I was looking for was [...]
Compositing has been suspended by another application. Eek!
How upgrading the nVidia driver fixed compositing on my Slackware machines, after upgrading to xorg-server-1.7.7 and kdegraphics-4.4.3.
Killing CloneZilla Live
Installing CloneZilla Live on a hard drive: Phase 1
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 [...]