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 …

Logging in! Wireless worked straight from the start. It says that my battery probably is broken (only 28% capacity). Some 2.6~GB is used by the default installation out of my 40GB disk. 1.6GB for swap. Step 1 - set up Synergy This is so I don't have to …

Dog Days Are Over - Florence and the Machine - Just awesome. Satellite - Leila Boussard - Also quite nice. But not as nice as ^^ Happy Tuesday :) Saw the 3rd game in the Detroit - Phoenix Stanley Cup series this morning. Lovely to see Helm fight like a bull and the Mule got in a …

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 …

Allison Weiss - You + Me + Alcohol - Lovely. Upbeat. Fnun. Lots of more songs by here on there. Very very nice. Got stuck on this all day ;) Beautiful. I want more. More treats here: http://allisonweiss.tumblr.com/site/

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 …

Just checked out a memory useage script (because honestly I find top a but too complicated). I found one that looks good on asim.pk . The script is a nice little perl script. Just download it from the link and set chmod +x ps_mem.pl and you can run it …

Hey! Recently found out that there are some quite awesome shortcuts available that I've missed - extremely useful if you use the bash shell in *Nix. To see which one you are using you can type 'chsh' in a terminal - this will tell you if you are using /bin/bash. Go …