Category Archives: Random stuff
Speed demon
For years, despite that computers’ speed increased in leaps and bounds, their start-up times slowly degraded; from near instant-on of early 8-bit systems to long minutes of crapware-laden, cheap XP laptops. Fortunately, this trend has been reversed lately; Ubuntu Lucid, … Continue reading
AFS and Ubuntu Lucid: how to log in!
With Lucid (or 10.04) Ubuntu now ships with Kerberos 5 version 1.8 which, by default, blocks DES encryption. While it is laudable, as DES certainly is weak by today’s standards, it unfortunately breaks AFS in it’s current form. To get … Continue reading
You know you’re an old-timer, when..
For last two hours I was battling with fresh installation of Ubuntu 10.04 on my desktop: for some strange reason radeonhd driver was switching video output to some non-existant connector on my video card, leaving me with a blank screen. … Continue reading
And so it begins…
For years, I considered blogging curious and incomprehenshible activity, something just as strange to me as rice engraving; something that I could perhaps take a mildly curious gander at, nod and produce appreciative sound or two, then move on. Oh, … Continue reading