December 6th, 2009 by Stargazer
KDE4 drives me crazy
Since a system update during the last days, my system does strange things. As taking a closer look, the troublemakers are related to KDE. My first clue was a broken dependency which causes services to crash – so I ran revdep-rebuild.
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A different kind of suicide
September 27th, 2009 by Stargazer
It is official by now that there are maniacs out there who already migrated their root-filesystem on BTRFS. So why not joining those freaks?
Theoretically it shouldn’t be a big hassle: Boot a Live-CD, mount and backup the Linux partitions including their permission stuff to prevent breakage and dangle the Windows space in shape as you already have your hands on it and migrate to BTRFS. Theoretically.
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Theory and reality
May 19th, 2009 by Stargazer
This article should show you that some things might sound beautiful although they don’t work in reality. But even here we’re learning our share…
Today we’re looking at my Lenovo Thinkpad W500, which should be already known to you from some of my previous posts – especially at the HardDrive Active Protection System (HDAPS). The system should prevent damage by switching of (parking) the disk if the system detects vibrations or shock.
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cmake
May 4th, 2009 by Stargazer
I guess I can’t keep my hands off my gentoo box trying to test new things until stuff breaks. This might sound tragic, but if you’d ask me, it’s those things you learn most of as fix the things you have broken while trying to improve your box. It’s those things teaching you the implications of the whole system.
Tags: gentoo, linux, problem, tip
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Lenovo W500 – So far so good
March 23rd, 2009 by Stargazer
Since I am able to use my Lenovo ThinkPad, it’s time to have a look at the result now. Talking about Windows, it’s just the usual ranting – no bigger problems, disregarding the common ranting that Windows is not GNU. Regarding Linux, there’s a bit more to say, but in general, nothing really disturbing – at least nothing I can’t live with.
Tags: setup, gentoo, lenovo, W500
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Lenovo W500 – Part 5
March 19th, 2009 by Stargazer
Today I decided to get the webcam working which can be found above the display, integrated into the case. Fact is, I haven’t really looked at the device, as it wasn’t listed as such. As there are no unknown devices at the PCI bus, we can narrow our search to the USB bus which looks like that:
Tags: setup, gentoo, lenovo, W500
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Lenovo W500 – Part 4
March 18th, 2009 by Stargazer
After all, the current state of my notebook could be considered as ‘usable’ but not ‘fully working’, due to some components that still are unused or not configured. While looking at the components I stumbled over the hdaps thingy which should save your harddisk from headcrashes.
Tags: setup, gentoo, lenovo, W500
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