India Zulu Two Victor Oscar November. We’ve done it!
As previously metioned here, I had boot issues with my new Motherboard, and my external Western Digital USB hard disk. But it’s really a motherboard fault, or not? It turns out other cheap USB enclosures dont’ endanger my boot like the WD hard disk does. A little google-fu revealed that it’s indeed Western Digital fault, … Leggi tutto
A small dog and its friend, originally uploaded by hayha. Rifugio V Alpini, S.Caterina Valfurva, Massiccio dell’Ortles.
This script (very dirty) was handful to me to discover some parameters (e.g KERNELS) to differentiate on udev/rules.d rules similar devices on a physical usb port basis. It’s relased under the GNU General Public License and with no guaranties. Please read the Disclaimer. It needs of course udevadm and less. Syntax is: showdevicedetails.sh #!/bin/bash # … Leggi tutto
Placche d’Oriana, Val D’Aosta, originally uploaded by hayha. Near Pontboset
WordPress was hacked. Read more here
I recently bought an Asrock ALiveXFire-eSATA2 R3.0 and I must say I am impressed on how much this board s*ck* (at least with Ubuntu 64bit Linux 10.10). and after a while (07/2011) solved some serious problems with this motherboard, mainly thanks to the new 4.00 Bios. 07/2011: I must say things are a little better … Leggi tutto
Sidenote: before checking or replacing the E51 earpiece, check the plastic net that covers the earpiece. If it’s really dirty, it may block the sound coming from the earpiece in a manner you won’t believe. I solved taking out my steel cover (just the cover, not the electronics) and washing it in hot water and … Leggi tutto
I was recently given the mundane task of making a live.com (actually an hotmail.com) address available on a low-end nokia smartphone. I lost a bit of time dodging for the right configuration options, especially for SMTP outgoing mails, so…
Playing with old hardware may be harmful to your mental health. This time for a really forgotten piece of junk, the Panasonic G-50. See more here.