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Author Archives: Martin
Ubuntu 12.04 / Mint 13 and multiple graphics cards
On my desktop machine at work I have 2 NVidia GeForce 7300 GT video cards and three separate monitors. I stayed with Mint 9 for a long time, primarily because I could not find a way to activate the 2 … Continue reading
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Arch, Grub and Windows 7
I upgraded a laptop which had Arch and Win XP running on it. I replaced XP with Win 7 so that I could have an English windows and update at the same time. I knew that I would lose my … Continue reading
Axigen Mail Server and Clamav – post installation
The Axigen mail server is very simple to install and set up. It has very few external dependencies and installs from a self executing script. The free version supports multiple domains and accounts with a renewable annual licence. I wanted … Continue reading
Grub stops at the menu – timeout does not work
First a disclaimer – this is a quick and dirty fix to a problem. If there is a better way then I will post again. After an upgrade of grub (I think), one of my machines booted up into the … Continue reading
Arch and testing repositories
I guess there are warnings everywhere, for many distros, about using bleeding edge repositories. We all use these at one time or another and mostly they work pretty much ok. So I enabled the testing and community-testing repos in /etc/pacman.conf. … Continue reading
Arch and ä ö ü in console
Some things work straight off the bat in Arch, but others just come sneaking around to bite you on the …. I live in the German speaking part of Switzerland and have a Thinkpad with a Swiss German keyboard. This … Continue reading
Mint 12 and Gnome 3 – Claws Mail crashes
I wonder if it is only me, or whether other people notice that fairly regularly Claws Mail just dies. No error messages, just disappears. It always restarts and the time between “deaths” seems to be relatively random. I cannot see … Continue reading
Arch, T61 Thinkpad and the F10 key
With Gnome 3 on Arch, I could not disable the F10 key in a terminal, and it behaved more or less as previously reported in a post of mine about Ubuntu. The fix described in my post worked fine for … Continue reading
Monitoring a Solar Panel System
We have installed a 10kW peak solar panel system on our roof at home. I wanted to be able to monitor the output via my webserver. I could have spend the $500 and just bought a proprietary box, gaining access … Continue reading
Podcasts I listen to…..
With quite a bit of time spent travelling in the car or walking the dog, I download quite a number of podcasts and listen offline. A number of podcasts are now coming as video feeds, so I miss sometimes the … Continue reading