Yup, running badblocks off of a Slackware 13 DVD to verify a 2TB hard drive has gone to meet its maker. :-( This should be finished in… a week.
Tomorrow I am going to attempt to set up a sandbox for our dev environment at the office on a Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) workstation. This should speed up things in IDEs and our revision control system, and make all the developers happy!
Looking forward to warmer weather. I hope to get a decent antenna mounted above my roof line this spring, so I can get better reception on the hdHomeRun for MythTV.
The power supply on my hdHomeRun unit apparently died a premature death. After opening a support ticket with SiliconDust, it turns out they had a bad batch and offered a free replacement!
Thanks, SiliconDust! I really enjoy this piece of hardware, and so far have been impressed with the level of support offered by the company. The forums are informative, firmware updates are fairly frequent, and always make things better (from my perspective, anyways).
I recently started messing around with different firmware for my G1, and ended up using the experimental firmware offered up by CyanogenMod. Very cool stuff, and they have an improved recovery image with excellent features like firmware backup, dropping to a shell to run scripts for things like file system checks, file system conversions for the G1 and SDCard, etc.
Everything doesn’t always work perfect in the experimental tree, but the fact that everything is open (and rooted, if you plan on running any non-official firmware) means I now have some very useful applications available to me that normal G1 users can’t even run. This is what I have been waiting for in a cell phone for a LONG time.
Long live Google Android! ;-)
I moved some hardware around last weekend, and tweaked my install of Slackware Linux 64-bit (-current) to complete a very respectable workstation! Right now, I have Slackware running on a dual-core Athlon64 w/2GB of RAM, 320GB SATA drive, onboard audio working, and the proprietary drivers enabled for my ATI Radeon 4650! Mmmmm… Dual 21″ CRTs (3200×1200 resolution!) with full 2D and 3D acceleration is a beautiful thing. OpenGL screen savers are so pretty!
The desktop environment is provided by KDE 4.2, and I have to say, it’s come a long way since I’ve last used KDE (3.x days). A very slick interface indeed.
My thanks goes out to the Slackware Linux team for putting together such a great Linux distribution! Now to play with all the new toys added to Slackware since I last used it! :-)
