The last thing on my list to check on my recently Ubuntu-ised laptop was ACPI support, specifically the Fn+FX keys. Under Debian I had spent some time playing with the ACPI functions on my IBM ThinkPad R40, working out the signals each key sent and tying them in with shell scripts to do things. I [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2006
ACPI on an IBM ThinkPad R40 under Ubuntu Breezy.
January 31, 2006Mail issues for this domain
January 31, 2006I am not currently receiving any mail to my tonywhitmore.co.uk domain. Freeparking.co.uk are the registrar for this domain and host its DNS and mail services. (Contrary to the impression, it’s not a free service, I pay for it.) The mail service is actually just a simple forwarding service. However the mail server at Freeparking stopped [...]
HantsLUG meeting, 4th February at Southampton Uni
January 28, 2006Next Saturday is a LUG meeting, back at Southampton Uni! All the details are on the wiki. We still need Greeters (there are still 4 slots left!) and remember if you have a specific problem you need help with, then please sign up on the I Need Help page. N.B: You will not be able [...]
Sorry Debian…
January 27, 2006… but I’ve installed Ubuntu on my laptop. I first installed Debian Woody on my laptop about 2 years ago then upgraded to Sid before switching to Testing for better stability. I spent ages battling the wireless drivers on my laptop (first Ndiswrapper, because ipw2100 didn’t support WEP at the time, then ipw2100 as its [...]
Time and tide melts the snowman
January 27, 2006I logged into my mail server earlier and the last thing in the output of dmesg was: Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC Not sure why, but it made me smile.
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