I upgraded my computer today. It was kind of a pain in the butt when it really shouldn’t have. I’m going to take this opportunity to vent a little about my Mac experience. This is basically going to chronicle a few impressions about the past several months as a Mac user.
Posts tagged linux
The most important thing I’ve learned about the Radeon
I am still rocking a Radeon 9600 in this Linux box. Because another post about getting it to work with compiz is the top search hit for this site, I will also post the most important thing I have learned about working with the Radeon under Linux. The most important thing is this: You can [...]
Sysadmin Trick: Disable a CPU in Linux from the Command Line
This is kind of a neat trick. echo 0 >> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online will take down the numerical cpu, such as cpu0, cpu3, etc. To re-enable, use echo 1
Sadness
XP running under Linux, installing SQL Server Express. Sad Panda
Chocolate Cat (video)
Testing out video editing using a free Ubuntu program called “Kino”. It’s pretty sweet. One important note: if Kino playback is very choppy, you may need to specify /dev/dsp in the audio device section. I have a crappy, 10 year old sound card in this box — it’s not well supported in ANY operating system [...]
ATI Radeon 9600 with Compiz and Dual-Head
This concerns configuring an ATI Radeon 9600 under Linux to be dual head and run compiz-fusion. I’m not going into detail on what options make compiz run faster, just how to get two screens working well with compiz. I’m posting this because I had a hell of a time finding all the info on it. [...]
My tools for development under Ubuntu
My work machine recently developed the click of death, so I had to get a new hard drive and reinstall everything. Just in case this happens again, and in case anyone else is interested, below is the list of things I install in addition to the standard Ubuntu installation:
