Kategorie: computer

  • Good news in linux-land

    I have already mentioned earlier, that my new laptop and Fedora (back then in version 8) work quite flawlessly together. Things are always on a move, and since that other post, Fedora has been moving forward and it was released in version 9, codename Sulphur. The change delivered several improvements. For me particularily useful are…

  • April, 1st

    It’s joke time. This came on the fedora-devel list this morning: Subject: rawhide special report: 20080401 changes Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 12:08:17 +0000 (UTC) (14:08 CEST) New package apt Advanced front-end for dpkg New package dpkg Package maintenance system for Debian Removed package rpm Removed package yum Updated Packages: […] Funny 🙂

  • Acer 8204 and Fedora

    As some of you may have read or somehow learnt, I do own a new laptop now. Well, actually it’s only used-new, but as good as new and still with warranty. Anyway, first thing I did: Put in the Fedora 8 Live-CD, booted, enjoyed. Almost everything worked out of the box. Exceptions were the graphics…

  • …and a happy new year!

    Als erstes möchte ich den paar Lesern meines Blogs ein frohes neues Jahr wünschen! So Dinge passieren halt einfach so, wenn man mal längere Zeit nix schreibt… Aber die Warterei hat ja ein Ende, hier ist einiges passiert, ich berichte brav. Fangen wir so… im Dezember an. Unsere letzten beiden Seminare endeten vor Weihnachten, seitdem…

  • Scr3wed

    Yesterday I somehow managed to screw up my home partition. It was a cryptsetup-luks encrypted partition and it seems like I wrote over the beginning of the partition when updating grub, which I had to do due to some re-partitioning… Today was consequently mostly spent on fixing that mess. At home I usually keep a…