Turing Uncomplete

If you’re an Archer, you will have noticed that the text “Core Dump” is displayed upon booting. That’s because the initscripts haven’t been updated since Core Dump came out, and the devs are planning to completely remove that message! I oppose that, I like having a little message displayed when booting. arew264 on the Arch [...]

Last night I began installing Arch x86_64, I made a big list of all packages I had installed on Arch i686, marked whether they were in the AUR or not, then checked that all the AUR packages worked on Arch x86_64, I only found two that just don’t support x86_64 (savage and flashplugin-beta), and two [...]

The day before yesterday, my new laptop arrived. That was very good, as I had only got the dispatch notification the day before, so it was next-day delivery. Yesterday, I got the dispatch notification for my new portable harddrive, so I’m hoping that will arrive today or tomorrow. Now I just need to go to [...]

Last night, I had to scramble for my portable harddrive to salvage what I could from my old laptop. The harddrive was making some absolutely horrible grinding and scraping noises, I’d never heard anything like it! I copied a bit of music I had downloaded, some wallpapers, and a couple of scripts. They are all [...]

Later this week I’ll be installing CRUX, by which Arch was inspired, on my old Toshiba Equium EA60-181 laptop. I’ve got the ISO downloaded, will be burning it to disk today, and then I just have to wait for Folding@home on the laptop to finish and submit its current WU. I’ll be completely formatting the [...]

Yesterday I read a few posts on the Arch forums about which filesystem was best for pacman speed, and today I read a thread about mounting a ramdisk (ie: a block of RAM used like a harddrive). My brain-lightbulb came on, and I wondered how Pacman would perform if I loaded all the files into [...]

This little tutorial is to teach you how easy it is to compile a kernel, however I should warn you that I’ve only tested this on Arch Linux and no other distributions, so things may be slightly different. This is something people frequently fail at, so you can obviously never have too much documentation on [...]

I have just compiled another list of distributions and operating systems I want to try. I shall post it here in case you’re curious. Key: - = Tried, and finished with. + = Tried, and want to try again. > = Permament favourite. * = Not yet tried.
Linux (8/13)

- Ubuntu
- Xubuntu
- Kubuntu
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Well, every blog worth its salt has a list of some sort, so I sat down and thought up a list for mine! 9 Reasons why Linux is for the average user. The reasons aren’t in any order, just the order that I thought of them, so don’t think that I place particular importance on [...]

All was good. Pulse was working fine. I added it to my /etc/rc.conf so it would start on boot with the rest of my daemons, so I turned my computer off happy in the knowledge that it would work fine when I turned it back on. I was wrong.
module-hal-detect
module-hal-detect is a module that, using HAL, [...]