An eventful weekend

Posted by cpbotha on April 21st, 2003 in · 0 Comments

Much happened this weekend. Because many readers have fantastically short attention spans, I’ll break my report up into clearly marked sections.

Is my laptop hard drive defective?..

The most useless software of the year award

Posted by cpbotha on April 17th, 2003 in · 0 Comments

As we all are aware of the frighteningly high editorial standards of freshmeat.net (ha ha), I have to wonder how MumabAs was accepted…

Some of my unfavourite things

Posted by cpbotha on April 15th, 2003 in · 1 Comment

I was going to write about some of my favourite things, but unfortunately I had to read the news first. This article came to my attention…

Scum of the Earth

Posted by cpbotha on April 11th, 2003 in · 2 Comments

Computer Professionals. IT Stylists. Computer Engineers…

Fly, little birdy, fly!

Posted by cpbotha on April 7th, 2003 in · 0 Comments

My Radeon DRI resume patch has been integrated into XFree86 CVS by Kevin Martin. Yaaaaaay!..

Another small step on the way to S3 STR

Posted by cpbotha on April 6th, 2003 in · 0 Comments

Urgh, radeon frame buffer support in 2.5.66-bk12 (that’s cutting edge with some extra blood on top) seems to be completely broken at least on my laptop…

Back to the present

Posted by cpbotha on April 6th, 2003 in · 1 Comment

Andrew Carlssin claims to be a time-traveller from the year 2256. Just another crack-pot, except for the fact that he was able to turn $800 into $350 MILLION in 2 weeks on Wall Street…

New Radeon DRI resume-enabled drivers

Posted by cpbotha on April 5th, 2003 in · 0 Comments

Get them while they’re still fresh! Go here for more information. I’ve updated the DRI set of binaries with a resume-patched build of 20030405 CVS checkout of the DRI tree…