Category Archives: linux

Overriding EEE PC’s drive letter assignment for USB devices

Posted on May 19, 2008 by Brian Jepson

When you plug a USB device into the EEE PC, it makes it look like it has a Windows drive letter by mounting it on something like /media/D: This is fine for a lot of stuff, but I have a … Continue reading →

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Last day to order your XO Laptop!

Posted on December 31, 2007 by Brian Jepson

I’ve been playing around with my XO laptop (you can read all about it over at hackszine) and it’s an extremely cool, super-hackable device. You should order one. The price is right: for $400, you: Donate a laptop to a … Continue reading →

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Fedora Core 5 on Virtual PC 7 for Macintosh

Posted on April 13, 2006 by Brian Jepson

I posted an entry a while back about getting this to work under an earlier beta of Fedora Core 5. I think these instructions are much more straightforward. You’ll need to go through the installation. I suggest using text mode … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Hacks @ LinuxWorld Boston

Posted on April 5, 2006 by Brian Jepson

I’ll be giving a short talk and demonstration on Ubuntu Hacks today (Wednesday, April 5 at 12:30) at the O’Reilly LinuxWorld booth. Drop by and learn about getting Ubuntu running under colinux, going online with a Bluetooth connection and a … Continue reading →

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Called Out

Posted on August 9, 2004 by Brian Jepson

I probably said “but at least the kernel is free software” one too many times at OSCON. Miguel says “I noticed that Open Source proponents using MacOS X have developed highly tuned excuses, similar to those that smokers have about … Continue reading →

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Russell’s Linux Rescue Adventures

Posted on July 8, 2004 by Brian Jepson

Russell Beattie: “Okay, but there was a tiny problem: The NTFS partition has 40GB available, but the disk image is only 30GB…” Great stuff in this post–Russell goes on to use ntfsresize to solve the problem. Damn! If I had … Continue reading →

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Rambling at LinuxWorld Expo

Posted on February 4, 2004 by Brian Jepson

Jeremy Geelan interviewed me on the expo floor of LinuxWorld Expo and put our ramblings up online.

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Fun with Dashboard and Mono

Posted on August 19, 2003 by Brian Jepson

Dashboard looks pretty cool. I managed to get it up and running on Mandrake 9.1 by installing mono 0.26 and gtksharp 0.10 from source, and then installing the latest Ximian Evolution (so I could get libgtkhtml 3.0.2, which Dashboard depends … Continue reading →

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