Archives for: October 2010

things that don't work

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 ...

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

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

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 »