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The value in a mailing list
In June of 2008 there was a small stink on the Crux mailing list, because a little program called pinentry was refusing to build. It was dragging in dependencies from the xorg group, and people using … more →
Motho ke motho ka botho
The value in a mailing list
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K.Mandla wrote 1 week ago: In June of 2008 there was a small stink on the Crux mailing list, because a little program called pi … more →
MPlayer for the framebuffer only
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K.Mandla wrote 2 weeks ago: As you might have seen in some of the screenshots, I run mplayer against the framebuffer on my Think … more →
Installing Crux 2.6 via ssh
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K.Mandla wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ve been quiet for the past day or so because I’ve been trying to commandeer the aforem … more →
When "fast" is less than 600Mhz
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K.Mandla wrote 2 months ago: It’s been an interesting downshift, sending off the 1Ghz Inspiron and relying more heavily on … more →
Solving eth0 eth1 eth2 eth3 eth4 ...
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K.Mandla wrote 2 months ago: I occasionally swap network cards in my Thinkpad either as a troubleshooting measure or just to see … more →
A twisted little joke
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K.Mandla wrote 2 months ago: I mentioned a week or two ago that I upgraded my Thinkpad from Crux 2.5 to 2.6 the hard way, manuall … more →
What're you looking at?
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K.Mandla wrote 2 months ago: Judging by the outgoing clicks, it’s that screenshot from a few days ago, the one on the right … more →
Two somewhat important facts
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K.Mandla wrote 2 months ago: I discovered two small things today, neither of which is particularly earth-shattering, but both hav … more →
Velocitized
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K.Mandla wrote 2 months ago: That’s the word my instructor used a long time ago, when I was in driver education class. He w … more →
Haiku alpha: Wow. Just wow.
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K.Mandla wrote 2 months ago: I got riled up about five months ago because ReactOS, the wannabe Windows mimic, was making strides … more →
A Crux port for Musca, and a correction
K.Mandla wrote 2 months ago: I have (yet another) correction to report. A few days ago I offered a port for e3 but refused to sha … more →
Best of both worlds: twin
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K.Mandla wrote 2 months ago: I have mentioned a lot of console applications over the past few weeks, but usually either in conjun … more →
udev wants inotify
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K.Mandla wrote 2 months ago: I was a little surprised when I jumped from Crux 2.5 to 2.6 on the Thinkpad, and suddenly the machin … more →
A Crux port for e3, and some ideas
K.Mandla wrote 2 months ago: Crux users are few, and the number of Crux users relying on featherlight software to keep Pentium ma … more →
The new guy
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K.Mandla wrote 2 months ago: I haven’t mentioned this yet, for reasons which I will discuss shortly. That is a U.S.-model I … more →
Crux 2.6
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K.Mandla wrote 2 months ago: It won’t be of interest to everyone, but Crux 2.6 hit the streets a few days ago. I was a litt … more →
A thousand words, 10Mb
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K.Mandla wrote 3 months ago: I had to take a photo of this, because a screenshot probably wouldn’t be convincing. You can r … more →
Three weeks with the Pentium
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K.Mandla wrote 3 months ago: It’s been about three weeks since I brought home the Pentium laptop, and I have a few more not … more →
Mingetty and dash
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K.Mandla wrote 3 months ago: I spend a lot of time poking around after lightweight applications and even more time trimming down … more →
