Morning. Got in last night at around 2140 local time. I should've done a little more exact research for how to find my hotel. Had to walk some 30 minutes (parts of it the wrong way) to get to it. But at least I made it to see some ice …

Hey! This is an awesome little trick I just learnt about: instead of doing mv file1.txt file1.txt.old you can do this mv file1.txt{,.old} and it will automagically add a .old at the end of the filename. This is called a brace expansion: http://tldp.org …

I'm heading to Hepix this whole week! Looks like there's some really interesting topics like: Lustre, glustre, ipv6, stuff about the CERN it facilities, Scientific Linux report, cloud/grid virtualization, Oracle Linux. I'll sure be doing a bit of blogging about what's going down.

I actually read about this in some comment field somewhere else, but here is a great explanation of my intention: http://g04.com/misc/GmailTipsComplete.html#Tip-03 I thought first that I could just e-mail to [email protected] and it would automagically come to that e-mail. That's not …

Ever experienced this relatively frustrating phenomena? My setup: Windows 7 x64 with an ATI Card HD5700 series. A logitech wireless keyboard+mouse. Camera just keeps on spinning and if you move the mouse it changes pitch, speed or whatever. Things to try: Got a joypad/joystick in the vicinity? Plug …

Giving this one a shot :) I will be compiling it myself as well. Squid for those who do not know is a proxy server. Proxys can be used for many things, but one great thing if you have a thinner connection to the Internet, you can use this to speed …

Preface Two previous posts: Part1 - thoughts before installing Part2 - ultimate boot CD - for diagnostics I ran the laptop with google-chrome 10 and two flash-pages loading all night, no blue-screens, no errors in event viewer. No actually it looks and feels pretty ok. It's not very fast, but I suspect this …

Previous post in this series: https://www.guldmyr.com/making-use-of-ibm-laptop-t40-part-1/ I'm going to try to put ubcd on an old USB pen I have, lots easier than burning a CD/DVD. Which I may not even have. It's an old Jens of Sweden 1GB mp3-player, that doesn't start unless plugged …

Next project coming up! I want to have the laptop running so that I can have some use for it. Maybe run some services on it instead of in a VM on my desktop? But also so that I can chat while playing games ;) I want to put Linux on …

Just got the Royal rank - 2500 points :) http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1477054&admit=109447626+1302808876390+28353475 Woop woop! HP's ITRC forum is a great place to learn more, help out :) For me the primary reason is to remember the things I learnt while working …