Posts by attilathepun

You should definitely use a multimeter to be sure that your power adapter is delivering the proper voltage and that the solder job is holding. If the power adapter is definitely holding, there are two possibilities. One is that the...

The issue shouldn't be windows -- the real restriction is in the amount of *addressable* ram; it will still boot, but windows32 won't report more than 3GB of ram. The issue actually could be the memory speed. Usually you can get by...

That's odd ... all I can think is to take out the card, take a big ol' can of compressed air to the mini pci slot, and put it back together. This is unrelated to the drivers issue ... but, you did remember to put a wireless antenna in...

HP's peripherals generally have outstanding Linux support, but Epson is not too far behind. I think you have some great choices. Steer far clear from Agfa. They often do not even release drivers for newer versions of Windows, and will...

On the Windows fonts -- go to the package manager and try to search for fonts. There are a lot of extra font packs out there. Unfortunately, a lot of the fonts that you find on Windows machines are proprietary, and many don't even come...

haha, in an amd desktop you don't need to upgrade that often. Skip this upgrade, and overclock your existing processor. It'll get you by until you've saved enough for a major upgrade!

Easy: don't browse pr0n!

Opera is extremely light. I ran VectorLinux 3.2 on an ancient P2 233Mhz with 96Mb ram. You may not believe this, but it flew. Had usb support and everything (although no automount). The laptop I'm using now is a P3 900Mhz with 256Mb...

Unless there's additional functionality you need that has to be patched in to the kernel, there's not much to be gained by compiling a custom kernel anymore. It sounds like it should speed things up, but the kernel is so small (in...

I'm a wee bit nervous of the legal issues here, but I think it's ok since you're just ul'ing them to your ipod. You need dvd ripping software, such as Plato dvd ripper. That will give you a video file on your hard drive. I'm not...