Sitting up on Sun's site - an article that every programmer who has written should read What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
On machine 1 Note - the "*" is important - otherwise you don't get the required purge lines On machine 2
When using XP SP2 you need to make sure that the bluetooth dongle (this is talking about a F8T003 v2) is using Belkin's driver and not the standard one from Microsoft. The following document at Belkin…
Debian linux running a 2.6 kernel To disable IPv6 you need both the following lines in your /etc/modprobe.conf file Thanks to the guys on the #debian freenode channel for help with this. Update Moved…
Want to get rid of lots of annoying adverts? Modify your hosts file - here's the link: Mike's Ad Blocking Hosts File
When using xdm instead of gdm/kdm it's useful to have buttons to allow for shutdown/restart. This is possible using Tcl/Tk and some config tweaks. Most of the info needed is here: XDM shutdown buttons
Running a dial-up over bluetooth to a S700i. Most of this is cargo-culted from the pages listed on http://www.holtmann.org/linux/kernel/ (page no longer available) - with most of it coming from…
Something I always forget :-) Given use
The new firewall box is now bootable to OpenBSD 3.6. It boots from compact flash to mfs. Waiting for a second IDE-CF converter - the H instead of the V (connectors horizontal instead of vertical - so…
To get CD and DVD burning running under debian unstable on a 2.6.x kernel Under 2.6 ide-scsi (SCSI emulation) is deprecated. It's recommended to use ide-cd instead. Using ide-cd under debian will also…
At least 2GHz CPU Between 256 and 512 MB ram Disk - two 200Gb disks? Maybe LVM? Either XFS or JFS? 2x Hauppauge 350 capture cards or 1 350 and 1 DVB card (is DVB available in Norway)? Soundcard…
Testing some of the software that Myth TV uses. XML TV for Norway is currently broken in the release version - but the CVS version of the grabber seems to be sorted. So - how to make a box that is…
Currently running an OpenBSD box as firewall on an old slow desktop box that's very noisy. Thinking of changing to mini-itx format. Probably: Compact Flash IDE Adapter - V1 VIA EPIA PD6000 Mainboard…
Looking at setting up a MythTV box ( MythTV ) Normal questions - what hardware to get - why can't you get motherboards without inbuilt sound/screen/net etc etc. Could be fun - so far it may look like…