Daily Archives: January 31, 2006

ACPI on an IBM ThinkPad R40 under Ubuntu Breezy.

January 31, 2006

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 [...]

Mail issues for this domain

January 31, 2006

I 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 [...]