gphoto2 and Kodak dc2xx TIP

Posted by cpbotha on June 30th, 2002 in · 0 Comments

If you want hotplugging and gphoto2 (and consequently things like gtkam, KDE kamera, etc.) to work nicely with your Kodak dc2xx, remember NOT TO COMPILE DC2XX SUPPORT into the kernel…

Aaaack…

Posted by cpbotha on June 18th, 2002 in · 0 Comments

Yes boys and girls, the bitch of a motherboard (MSI-694D dual FC-PGA) in my work machine went tits up last week…

Bliss.

Posted by cpbotha on June 12th, 2002 in · 1 Comment

I finally broke down and ordered that laptop: Promedion (Clevo) 5600 with Northwood P4 1.8GHz CPU, 256MB DDR ram, 30G HDD, 64MB ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, 15″ 1400×1050 TFT, 3 year on-site…

More 5600 info

Posted by cpbotha on June 9th, 2002 in · 0 Comments

I found this posting on groups.google.com, bless its heart…

As if you didn’t know already…

Posted by cpbotha on June 6th, 2002 in · 0 Comments

Mozilla 1.0 has been released! Nuke IE (unless you’re already using a real OS), install Mozilla and enjoy some compliance goodness.

DIE spammers!

Posted by cpbotha on June 5th, 2002 in · 0 Comments

SpamAssassin kicks ass. What to do with all this extra time…

The 5600 Saga

Posted by cpbotha on June 2nd, 2002 in · 0 Comments

The Clevo 5600 is also sold as the M-Tech 5600 as well as the Sager NP56xx series.

Miscellany.

Posted by cpbotha on June 2nd, 2002 in · 0 Comments

The Acrobat Reader 5.05 linux plugin just works with Mozilla 1.0rc3. Of course.
Here is an interesting article about why Eric S. Raymond likes Python…