Archives for: October 2010
things that don't work
By basd on Oct 19, 2010 | In arghhh!! | Send feedback »
Sometimes my best efforts are fail. Sooo ... it was try to install Haiku night.I have a spare old computer. I have a Haiku alpha2 disk. What could go wrong?
Need a partition -- got room on the disk BUT after shrinking my /home partition, I learned t… more »
it's sunday night, so i am doing some stupid computer thing ...
By basd on Oct 3, 2010 | In arghhh!! | Send feedback »
I mentioned here a couple of times "Haiku" OS. So, having better things to do but not doing them, I have spent the evening making Haiku installs.A week or so ago, or whenever, I downloaded the VM of the current alphaR2 release. Which ran just fine, exc… more »
in which we retract a [Vista] post
By basd on Oct 3, 2010 | In arghhh!!, vista | Send feedback »
So, I was complaining about Vista being really, really, really slow on my Gateway LT3103u, to the point of being non-useable. After many hours of troubleshooting, I think, possibly, or maybe, the problem was not Vista. But, indeed, ifolder.I commenced… more »
OpenSUSE 11.2 source repository seemingly borks
By basd on Oct 1, 2010 | In opensuse | Send feedback »
The files for the OpenSUSE source code files -- which to my understanding are necessary for the capability to compile and install linux programs from source? -- seemingly disappeared and/or are broken. I couldn't figure out precisely where I might give… more »