Saturday: After a trip to the doctor I was told that I should try and take things one at a time and do one a day. So, I’ve put everything on hold and have just set myself the task of completing one task a day. On Thursday I did my laundry, Friday I finished off [...]
A Wacom Bamboo tablet I sense an emerging theme on this blog being my escapades of buying a piece of hardware and then spending a week getting it to work in linux without any compiling. My latest aquesition is a Wacom Bamboo tablet and I am really pleased with it. Tablets in general I have [...]
Totoro, my home server, has just about reached the peak of it’s abbility. I couldn’t really expect a 600MHz processor to operate the complete feature set I had intended. While I may still add printer sharing, music streaming may be beyond it’s power. Firstly, because pulseaudio currently uses (20%x1.6GHz=) 320MHz on my laptop and secondly, [...]
Totoro, what I have come to name my home server, has finally got WPA encryption. This was the second time this week I’ve attempted a problem I had spent a long time troubling over and subsequently solved it with little effort. After just a quick look-up I found that to start HostAP Daemon (hostapd) you [...]
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