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).
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 is a lag, typically [...]
