I’ve been having wireless network problems ever since I moved into the new condo with Jen. At first, I thought that it was because I had purchased a v5 WRT54GS (this uses a completely different operating system than the four prior linux ones). I saw a lot of frequent dropoffs while other networks in the…

Printing on Mac OS X for the Dell 1600n Update: I’ve revised the steps for setting up the printer as Line Printer Daemon (i.e., you print directly to the IP address). It is much faster than AppleTalk. -Tai It seems there is a Bonjour bug in Mac OS X that affects some people trying to…

After the brown-rice-whole-wheat-bread-brocolli-green-bean-lettuce-cucumber-no-salt-no-dairy-no-fat-no-oil-no-stimulant diet, I realized that coffee probably was equivalent to about 2 hours worth of sleep for me. Over the following 9-days, I decided not to drink coffee. Broke down (rather easily I might add) when Flo offered me a cup of coffee at their place this Friday before a rousing game of…

I’ve started running some distributed computer programs using the excess computer hardware here at the condo. My dual-proc workstation and dual-proc linux server are normally idling 24/7. Figured I put it towards a good cause: The World Community Grid Project. World Community Grid’s mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. Our…

Now that GCC 3.4.4 has been marked stable in the Gentoo Linux portage tree, I finally started the long and arduous process of recompiling every system package on the linux box. Still have to do the: emerge -ev world Then I still have to configure and recompile the kernel. I think once this is all…

I had been planning to replace my iBook (I know it isn’t the most positive post, but it has my specs, and most of my performance issues were solved when I upgraded to Panther) this year having hit the end of my 3-year upgrade cycle. Given a lackluster Macworld Expo 2005 in January and some…

So I’ve been messing around with the Linux box again. I’ve updated to MySQL 4.1.x and the newest version of Textpattern (4.02). Very sweet. I am still working on getting the mail server up and running (I’m so very close), but I wanted to get the site up and running again. Cheers, Tai

The past two days at work, I have been setting up an old G4 500 MHz Powermac. We need it as a video editing and web compatibility testing box. Boy, was I envious. Now it isn’t much faster than my iBook (Late 2001 Dual USB), but I could tell right off that it was peppier…