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Linksys SRW2008 status

Permalink 2009-03-29 21:20, by jaervosz, Categories: General
I finally retired my managed Linksys switch SRW2008. All in all I should never have spend a cent on this switch. Initially I bought it to play around with Vlans on a small managed switch. However it quickly turned out that the administration interface av… more »
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Asus P5B-VM fails to detect MSI DVD drive

Permalink 2009-03-08 20:10, by jaervosz, Categories: General, Gentoo Tips, Universe/English
On my main desktop system (Asus P5B-VM) I have a MSI DVD drive (XA52P) that I very seldomly use. Yesterday I bought a new audio CD to rip and suddenly I discovered that recent kernels now fails to discover the DVD drive, taking a long time to load ata_pi… more »
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KDE 4.2.0 on Gentoo a week (or so) after

Permalink 2009-03-04 17:23, by jaervosz, Categories: General, Gentoo Tips, Gentoo, Universe/English, Opensource
First thing I noticed after starting to use KDE 4.2 as my everyday desktop was "Duh, no proper IRC client!". Bummer! Lately I'be been too busy with sorting out normal work life to hang out on IRC so it took me some time to discover this. I've heard that… more »
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Huawei E220 GSM modem with Fullrate/TDC

Permalink 2009-03-03 22:41, by jaervosz, Categories: General, Gentoo Tips, Gentoo, Universe/English, Opensource, Driftstatus
I recently got a new mobile internet by Fullrate using the TDC 3G network. Though this one is throttled at 1 Mbit download I had to do the traditional speed test. First with the bundled Huawei E220 GSM modem: wget "http://ftp.ing.umu.se/linux/gentoo… more »
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