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Monthly Archives June 2008

Hachimantai Japan

This was a photo taken in Northern Japan, from the parking lot of the Hachimantai Royal Hotel. It was the early hour of an autumn morning (01 Nov 2007).

Posted 30 June 2008 § Wallpapers ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Installing debian/NSLU2

My first step to hacking the Linksys NSLU2 was installing debian/NSLU2. The starting point to the process was this webpage. The actual installation guide can be found here. I did the install first before any hardware tinkering, because I wanted to be sure this was something workable. It actually took multiple tries, and a lot [...]

Posted 29 June 2008 § Hacking Linksys NSLU2 ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Reskinning a USB thumbdrive

With the price of a USB thumbdrive dropping of the cliff, I ended up with a few spares.  These little guys were too small (megabytes wise) to be of any use, except for the occasional sneaker-netting.  The older ones were quite beat up, after years of use and abuse.  I figured it’s time to give [...]

Posted 28 June 2008 § Offbeat ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Hacking a poor Linksys NSLU2

A couple of years ago, I found the need to share media files within my home, and being a cheapskate that I was, I bought a Linksys NSLU2, plus a generic harddisk enclosure.  After a while, my family members moved out of the house and there was no longer a use for the “slug” and [...]

Posted 28 June 2008 § Hacking Linksys NSLU2 ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Slow menu with separate X screens and compiz

Background This fix came from the following thread in ubuntuforums. This blog post is a revival of an old post I made to the thread last November. Issue When using Ubuntu/Gnome with nvidia restricted driver, and separate X screens setting, you will find that the menu/window in the first screen is slow in opening.  There [...]

Posted 28 June 2008 § Ubuntu Linux ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,