As usual, I take a day or two when a new Mandriva version is in RC status to install and play around with it. If you've been reading here for a while, you know that the machine I throw to the dogs is my Toshiba Libretto. Asus may have a …
more ...I always like the week or two before a release. While the other developers are busting their butts trying to get things finished for the upcoming release, I actually get to take a bit of a breather, largely because I don't like duplicating effort so any non-essential updates get to …
more ...New article on TechRepublic from yours truly about Configuring wireless support in Mandriva with ndiswrapper.
more ...After a few really long weeks, bugzilla is finally live. It's about bloody time. Of course, now that it's live, there are even more requests to do stuff.
Oh well. Par for the course I guess. However, I'm seriously considering taking the next two days off to recover some of …
more ...The bugzilla conversion is almost complete, except for a few minor issues that need to be figured out (such as who will be owning the bugs initiall when they are submitted). And a few minor cosmetics. Head on over to bugzilla.linsec.ca and check it out. Constructive feedback is …
more ...Well, someone else was supposed to be working on the new bugzilla, but they got pulled off for an OEM project (completely understandable), so since I really need some functionality and speed out of bugzilla to progress with some work flows I have in mind, I decided to hunker down …
more ...Came across this good HOWTO on HowtoForge entitled The Perfect Desktop: Mandriva 2007 Spring Free (Mandriva 2007.1). Pretty good write up, although there's too many pictures for my liking. I guess that makes a good visual HOWTO tho. Goes into detail on how to setup the PLF archives, install …
more ...I keep running into this issue everytime I have to run vmware tools so I thought I'd mention it here. vmware-tools insists on rewriting /etc/modprobe.conf and changing "alias sound-slot-0 snd-ens1371" to "alias sound es1371".
I have no idea why, but this keeps removing sound everytime I upgrade a …
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