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semi-borks and non-borks
By basd on Jul 31, 2010 | In -arghhh!! | Send feedback »
I'm very happy with my cradlepoint hotspot, but I better get some more batteries. Why can't it just come with a battery the size of, say, the box itself. That ought to do!
I imagine that the fact I keep inadvertently draining the battery will not be… more »
i was annoyed that my laptop with the nvidia geforce4 440 would not display on my external monitor.
By basd on Jul 28, 2010 | In -arghhh!! | Send feedback »
So, I installed the nvidia drivers (once again, this time from the nvidia website) and once again they didn't work -- which has been true for a really long time, even though once upon a time they did work. Nvidia has not supported the linux version of t… more »
blog stats update
By basd on Jul 27, 2010 | In kde4, linux, opensuse, lxde | Send feedback »
I just MAYBE have a stable enough KDE 4.4.4 system (now in OpSu 11.3) to return to using it as my default desktop. Which has not been the case since 4.2 or so. Now, I do acknowledge that KDE's official position is "fie on non-kde contributors," but g… more »
why is it I always do this late Sunday pm?
By basd on Jul 27, 2010 | In linux, opensuse | Send feedback »
I guess 'cause I was busy. It seemed to me OpSu 11.3 might solve some lingering aggravations in my kde 4.4.4 install. Soooo... that meant upgrade my OpSu 11.2, right? And get it running for work Monday. As usual, WMMSYDHT.
I usually use the net ins… more »
not arghhh!!
By basd on Jul 25, 2010 | In -arghhh!! | Send feedback »
Tethered Verizon Blackberry Tour 9630 running OS 5 works with Cradlepoint PHS300 personal hotspot. An ultimate geek tool -- and no help anywhere to be found, so I'll give you some specifics. For the first hour or so, I thought this was going to be an… more »
opsu 11.3 / kde 4.4.4 on gateway lt3103u
By basd on Jul 23, 2010 | In kde4, linux, opensuse | Send feedback »
Today's the day (finally). So, I'm installing OpSu 11.3 on a gateway lt3103u that has a clean install of Windows Vista on it (Vista very sludgy, due to all the crappy updates) as I've documented here previously. First, I booted via my OpSu 11.3/KDE 4.4… more »
stuff that doesn't work.
By basd on Jul 23, 2010 | In kde4, linux, opensuse, -arghhh!!, lxde | Send feedback »
1. Suspend is now working nicely on my Acer netbook. (OpSu 11.2/KDE 4.4.4). HOWEVER, due to the change in the bluetooth/blackberry connection mentioned in prior post, I cannot reconnect the bluetooth/blackberry connection upon return from suspend. S… more »
all better
By basd on Jul 18, 2010 | In kde4, linux, opensuse | Send feedback »
"All better" may be a tad optimistic, but I ran "zypper dup" to do a distro update and the packages sorted themselves out so KDE 4.4.4 is now working on my Acer Aspire One. With some added benefits, no less, in that things that have been problematic see… more »
painful upgrades
By basd on Jul 18, 2010 | In -arghhh!! | Send feedback »
Sooo...OpSu changed the KDE repositories and "stable" became 4.4.4. I bit.I had been running my Acer Aspire One netbook on OpSu 11.2 with KDE 4.4.3. I wasn't actually using the plasma desktop, but the LXDE desktop. I changed the repositories and upgra… more »
gateway vs. acer
By basd on Jul 18, 2010 | In vista | Send feedback »
I think you are not up-to-date on my gateway netbook revival. If you care, which you probably don't anyway. I'm not certain I care.In earlier posts I described how i preferred the gateway Lt3101 to the Acer whatever-it-is that I replaced the [formerly… more »
more useful uses for boat anchors
By basd on Jul 17, 2010 | In -arghhh!! | Send feedback »
Not an arghhh!! actually, but what category does this go in? My family wasted $25/mo. on Blockbuster for some years which ultimately resulted in the same two dvds sitting on top of the tv for mos. at a time, which means we may just as well have bought th… more »
miscellany strikes ...
By basd on Jul 17, 2010 | In linux, tethered blackberry | Send feedback »
A few things shaking, such as OpSu 11.3 and the Blackberry 5.0 OS for my Blackberry Tour. It's been a techie few days.
First on the 5.0 OS. Well, of course RIM and Verizon tell me if I am on an Enterprise Server, I cannot upgrade to 5.0, I have to se… more »
not tooo bad ...
By basd on Jul 3, 2010 | In linux, opensuse | Send feedback »
So, as I left off yesterday, gscan2pdf would not work and was borked. I installed v. 0.9.30 from source and now it works. Yay! This is on OpSu 1.2 i586. And, some hints for anyone else trying to get this working, well -- first I should mention I had… more »
things that quit working
By basd on Jul 3, 2010 | In linux, opensuse | Send feedback »
I scan a lot of documents, so I use gscan2pdf. This has not been easy to maintain, as problems keep arising. But the weird part is it just quit working AND I had not done any software changes or upgrades.For awhile, gscan2pdf was doing a weird thing wh… more »
