Guys, we have a problem. The name of that problem is NVidia and their Optimus technology. The idea of that tech is quite neat – take a laptop, put two video cards in it, use the powerful card when you need 3D power, use the weak card when you need to conserve battery. The problem [...]
This is just a quick note that I broke down and replaced my ageing iPhone 3G with a brand new unlocked Google Nexus S. I got it in my hands last Saturday and by the end of the first day it did 90% of what I used my iPhone for and by the end of [...]
Currently I own and use an iPhone 3G. I bought it almost two years ago, when the local phone provider LMT started offering the iPhone legally. I had a pretty good experience with it most of the time, but now it is showing its age: The two year warranty will run out in September The [...]
After a few months, today I finally got the approval and As I work for Accenture now, I got them to pay for the plane tickets and also spring for the ‘Professional’ registration, so more people can attend. I am very happy, and very grateful to the company and to the managers here in Riga [...]
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
The following is an invitation to the Latvian Ubuntu Bug Jam (in Latvian) sent for a bit of a wider circulation to catch people that monitor Planet Debian, but not Planet Ubuntu.lv. 27. martā LU Linux centrā notiks divi pasākumi vienā – Ubuntu Global Bug Jam Latvijas daļa un installfests. Global Bug Jam ir pasākums, [...]
Daniel, I also recently installed a WRT on the Linksys WRT54GL. But I used DD-WRT instructions – went to http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/support/router-database, entered my model number and got direct download links to the firmware along with a README. One very important points in flashing these routers is to clear the NVRAM by doing a hard reset BEFORE [...]
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Want a sound card? Want a cleared sound that is not contaminated by electromagnetic interference in you computer’s case? Want that all to work in Linux? I did. So I got me one of theseUSB sound cards. It arrived today in a tiny padded envelope. And it works with Linux. Just plug and play. PulseAudio [...]
My primary workstation is a 3 and a half year old Dell XPS M1710 laptop and it is getting old – the 320 Gb hard drive is getting small and slow, the 3 Gb or RAM (expanded from 2 Gb) look too small and screen is turning brown in one corner. Also dead or dying: [...]
Saturday, October 24, 2009
To get more Google juice to the problem. If you are trying qemu or libvirt or kvm or virt-manager and when you are starting up your second guest you see a message such like this: QEMU quit during console startup bind() failed Then two of your guests have the same port set for their VNC [...]
A bit more than a week after Debconf9 ended here is a post summarising what I remember about it – for myself to look back to later, for others that were there for a good memory, for those that were not there for insight and for organisers of future Debconfs to improve. Let’s start with [...]
