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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

PulseAudio is a relatively new audio system for Linux. It sits in the background as a daemon accepting sound input and sending it to the appropriate location. As Pulse was designed as a sound server, it has a number of advantages over plain old ALSA that make it, well, amazing. The most notable of these [...]

I decided to compile my own kernel the day before yesterday, to try and speed things up a bit. Most people say that the speed gain is negligable, and that the RAM usage is the only thing that will be noticeably different. So, off I went to compile a kernel! I followed this excellent guide, [...]

In my post yesterday I mentioned my new experimental daemons set up. I can now, after rebooting, confirm that that doesn’t work at all, and I’m not sure what came over me when writing that code :p
I did, however, manage to fix this problem after rebooting many times to try to see the error message [...]

I noticed one thing that was slowing down my entire boot process - daemons. I currently start all of my daemons in the background, except for syslog-ng, ptal-init and occasionally dhcdbd. This is, of course, irritating to someone like me who wants to boot at as fast a speed as possible. It took a bit [...]