Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

Windows sucks at DNS caching

Here is the graph of my DNS queries in the past month via opendns

Notice how the left is about 10 times taller than the right. What changed? Switching over to Linux, and that's it. I'm still doing basically the same thing as before. You can see that from the graph of unique domains.

Now, it does [...]

Ubuntu Time v2

Two new install disks

x86 still the same, and x86_64 doesn't look any better

But hey, what's this OEM install mode? Let's try that.

It worked!

After some work, I got the web.

But TV out still doesn't work

Which is basically a killer for me, and the fact that it's 64 bit is causing more problems than good. Not sure [...]

WG311v3 64 Bit Driver

I been trying to install Ubuntu and got the 64 bit edition up and running, but the only way for my Netgear wireless card was with ndiswrapper, and Netgear insists on not making any 64 bit drivers. I searched around and found this thread, which shows how to make this driver. I thought it would [...]

Ubuntu Time

Ubuntu 6.10

Let's boot up:

Damnit. Frequency still out of range

Let's try Feisty Fawn (Herd 5)

Woohoo! It boots!

Time to install (aka San Andreas time)

Installed!!

Crap, ndiswrapper isn't working

Probably needs some dependencies. Time to switch back to Vista

Got build dependencies, but must have missed some

Shit

And this is where I've stopped. I think I might try the DVD version of [...]