Seagate’s new “Free Agent” (ha!) drives are all broken, it would seem in an interesting way that makes them partially incompatible with Linux and other *nix based operating systems, including Macs.Seagate representatives claim that there may be workarounds for this, but they do not intend to find out what they are and will not support them.Solution: Never, ever buy a Seagate product again. It really isn’t necessary to do so. There are plenty of other disk manufacturers. Also, wait for the next bit of news on this, about how Microsoft bribed Seagate to pull of this particular technological feat.(Not that I know that this is what happened. I’m just sayin’)[source]
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Today’s Linux Calendar Output
- Dec 08
- Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65BC
- Dec 08
- James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894
- Dec 08
- First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Penna, 1965
- Dec 08
- Blessing of the Water in Uruguay
- Dec 08
- Mother’s Day in Panama
- Dec 08
- Our Lady of the Cacupe in Paraguay
- Dec 08
- Jim Morrison is born in Melbourne, Florida, 1943
- Dec 08
- John Lennon is shot and killed in New York City, 1980
- Dec 08
- Afflux (50th of the Season of The Aftermath)
- Dec 09
- Ball-bearing roller skates patented, 1884
- Dec 09
- Independence Day in Tanzania
- Dec 09
- The Who’s “Tommy” premieres in London, 1973
- Dec 09
- Aujourd’hui, c’est la St(e) Pierre.
- Dec 09
- 2. oder 3. Advent
Linux: Stable API vs. Not?
There has been a lot of interesting discussion on the benefits and negatives of a stable API on this thread, with good points being made on both sides. If you don’t know or care what that is about, then just move along, nothing to see here… Continue reading Linux: Stable API vs. Not?
Why is Linux Better?
Better than what you may ask? Better than:-Older versions of LInux … it is always improving.-Windows. Hands down.-Apple’s operating system before Apple chose, essentially, Linux (a Unix variant) to run its eye candy and development environment onBut why, specifically, is it better? Continue reading Why is Linux Better?
Kill! Kill! Kill! (A Linux tip)
Now and then a program (a “process”) will need to be killed. It got annoyingly slow, or got stuck somehow. In Windows, the final solution for killing a process is “alt-ctrl-delete” which may or may not give you the capacity to shut down a process, and if that works, it requires a lot of struggling with dialog boxes, etc. Best case scenario in Windows is that the process dies cleanly. Often, a Windows process will leave messy bits and pieces of itself behind that may affect performance or create security problems, and often, the worst case scenario happens … you’ve got to “kill” the process hard, by turning off the power or yanking the cord from the wall or throwing the computer into the nearest lake.In Linux, nothing actually goes wrong, of course. Continue reading Kill! Kill! Kill! (A Linux tip)
An Interesting Day in History
According to my Linux Calendar, this is the anniversary of Rosa Parks refusing to move to the back of the bus AND of Martin Luther King’s boycott two years later, AND the independence of both Portugal and the Central African Republic And it is even Anniversary Day in Chatham Islands (when everyone celebrates their anniversary, I suppose).Here is the full output from my Linux Calendar: Continue reading An Interesting Day in History
Do you want to be a Super Geek?
RAIDs (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive [sic] Disks) are considered pretty handy for a number of things. This is an example of productive and practical use of a RAID. Granted, this project does not have the archaic grandeur of a Floppy Disk RAID, but then again, the capacity and performance of this system are utterly superior to those of a Floppy Disk RAID. The following is meant as an instruction sheet of how to build a rock-hard USB stick RAID system and simultaneously transform from an ordinary nerd to a SUPER LINUX GURU.
Get your sticks together and go here.
Boot Faster Than You can Say”Debian Linux”
Technologic Systems has announced a single-board computer (SBC) claimed to boot Linux 2.6 in under two seconds. The TS-7800 is equipped with a Marvell 500Mhz ARM9 CPU running a full Debian implementation, and includes a user-programmable on-board FPGA (field-programmable gate array) with 12,000 LUTs (look-up tables).
Linux Google Search
Check it out:
(click on the bird)
Fixing Your Dictionary
Your are typing some text into your FIrefox 2.0 Browser, and you spell something terribly wrong. Like this:
I am so glad I upgreaded to Firefox 2.0, because it has a built in spell checker.
You see the error where you meant to type “upgraded.” So you right click on it to pick the correct spelling, and accidentally hit the “Add to Dictionary” menu choice, which is annoyingly placed right next to the correctly spelled word.From now on, you can never be sure if your text will be correct. Bummer.There is a way to fix this. Continue reading Fixing Your Dictionary
Faster Browsing II
There are a zillion ways to configure Firefox using the obscure but incredibly cool feature known of as “about:config”Try this, and don’t be frightened. Well, you should be a little frightened. Type the following into the URL box at the top of your browser:]about:configHow you’ve got a strange new window with a zillion alphabetized options. Above this is a “filter” box into which you can put a filter. For instance, you can type this into the filter:networkand you can see dozens and dozens of network related options. Keep typing so this is in the filter box:network.prefetch Continue reading Faster Browsing II
Faster Browsing I
My Firefox browser is great and generally works well, and as far as I can see it’s pretty fast. But there are a couple of ways to make it go faster that you might want to know about. Continue reading Faster Browsing I
Fun with Linux: The Existential File System
The Linux file system is very different from that found in other systems. You use Linux files all the time, because most of the time that your browser “gets” a web page, it is accessing a Linux file system. Here, I just want to point out a few cool things about the system. In some ways, the system is annoyingly complex, but for good reasons. Some of the key differences between, say, the Linux system and the Windows/DOS system are the very reasons that it is fairly easy to set a virus or other damaging bit of code loose in a Windows computer but difficult in a Linux computer. Continue reading Fun with Linux: The Existential File System