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Getting networking up and running on the T60p has been a mixed bag. On one hand, the wired connection was easy (expected). The wireless was at first REALLY flaky, then after some fiddling the connection at home (WEP) was functional, and as of now (when I'm finally posting this thing) it still doesn't work at work (LEAP).

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posted by erin at 10:21 PM on 05 January 2007  tag in del.icio.us Digg!
tags: gentoo / thinkpad / T60p / linux / wifi
 

ISO, CDR, and CDRW in Linux [cpqlinux.com]

An old page, but full of handy tips (more like quick references) nonetheless.

Just in case, it's also here. [waybackmachine.org]

Also:

posted by erin at 10:41 PM on 01 December 2004  tag in del.icio.us Digg!
tags: linux / howto
 

What a stroke of genius. [ding!] I’m sure some people think it’s obvious, but what a great application of RAMDISK!

Sessions are generally small, and putting them in a RAMDISK eliminates IO activity from storing/retrieving session data without having to change anything in PHP..

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posted by erin at 10:51 AM on 04 March 2004  tag in del.icio.us Digg!
tags: linux
 

Linux: 2.6 Input Drivers FAQ

Didn’t want to lose it.. :-)

Additional keyboard stuff:

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posted by erin at 09:17 PM on 19 February 2004  tag in del.icio.us Digg!
tags: linux / X11
 

Re: truetype fonts

XftConfig contains scalable fonts only. bitmap fonts can’t possibly be anti-aliased (and anti-aliasing is what XftConfig is there for).

> Can one get ride of one of the files?

If you remove /etc/X11/fs/config, X will stop working.
If you remove /etc/X11/XftConfig, antialiasing will act oddly.

Fonts in X

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posted by erin at 11:26 AM on 21 December 2003  tag in del.icio.us Digg!
tags: linux