I just upgraded to linux 2.6.14, which seems to work fine here. Finally, the ipw2200 driver got integrated, so I don’t have the possibility to forget it anymore :)
In Linux 2.6.14 though, developers have decided to finally remove verify_area(), which was deprecated since a while and superceded by access_ok(). This has the drawback of breaking [...]
I upgraded my laptop from Ubuntu Hoary to Breezy wednesday evening, just before the release, using apt-get dist-upgrade. Everything went fine, not a single problem arose. Nice! The new Ubuntu makes one more (big) step towards the “Just Works” paradigm, and it impresses me a lot.
Today I upgraded my computer at work, from Mandriva LE2005, [...]
Wow. First time since I have my new 1.5GHz laptop, with 512MB of RAM and a 24x CD/DVD drive, that I try to rip one of my CDs to mp3:
Beautiful !
And no, it’s not a DMA problem:
[colin@jack ~]$ sudo hdparm /dev/cdrom
Password:
/dev/cdrom:
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq = 1 [...]
Yesterday evening I started to replace my router, which is an old Sun IPX. Its hard disk was beginning to make horrible noises, a bit like a chainsaw grinding on a steel plate. So, I shut it down after having grabbed the routing scripts, removed the second network card - AUI connector -, plugged it [...]