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By Matthieu, 2009-10-08 23:20

http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php?topic=137.0

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By Matthieu, 2009-10-05 13:01

It’s been a week now and I still have had no success installing all 3 major OSes on my MBP. OSX+Windows works fine (via Bootcamp), OSX+Ubuntu 9.10 also (9.04 hangs on boot).

This, however looks promising:
http://tubeshards.wordpress.com/2006/12/05/install-windows-to-a-macintosh-usb-drive/

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By Matthieu, 2009-10-05 10:58

After much hacking at the command line and Google, I found this handy little app that strips the ACLs from files or folders. Why would I want to do this? Well one example is when attempting to retake ownership of a home folder recovered from another Mac’s hard drive.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/26864

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By Matthieu, 2009-10-01 21:00

http://ubuntuforums.org/search.php?do=finduser&u=144636

found via: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=31200

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By Matthieu, 2009-09-30 20:11

I got tired of clicking Get Info and Change all… and found this handy prefpane
http://www.rubicode.com/Software/Bundles.html#RCDefaultApp

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By Matthieu, 2009-09-27 00:37

1. MacBook Pro Unibody – Mac OS X 10.6/Windows 7/Ubuntu 9.10
2. ASUS P5W DH Deluxe – Mac OS X 10.5/Ubuntu 9.04
3. Dell Inspiron 640m – Ubuntu 9.04/Windows 7
4. Dell Latitude D610 – Ubuntu 9.04
5. ASUS P5N73-AM – Ubuntu 9.04 and Debian Lenny hybrid with OpenVZ/KVM
6. ASUS ITX-220 – Ubuntu 9.04
7. ASUS ITX-220 – Mac OS X 10.5
8. Zotac ITX Wifi – Windows 7
9. Toshiba Satellite A40 – Ubuntu 9.04
10. Dell XPS M1330 – Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise/Ubuntu 9.04
11. Dell PowerEdge 1400SC – Kubuntu 8.04
12. Acer AspireOne – Linux Mint Gloria (Ubuntu 9.04)
13. Acer Aspire 3623 – Mac OS X 10.5
14. Acer Aspire 5570Z – Windows 7
15. Nokia N810 – Maemo/Debian ARM
16. 3* iMac G3 – Mac OS X 10.4/openSUSE
17. IBM ThinkPad T21 – Windows XP
18. IBM Ispirati A10i – Windows XP
19. ECS P4VMM2 – Windows XP
20. Apple TV – Apple TV OS (Mac OS X 10.4)
21. Linksys NSLU2 – Debian armel
22. Broadcom-based routers – DD-WRT/Tomato

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8014131&postcount=902

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By Matthieu, 2009-09-26 21:53

My cousin was having some issues with missing desktop icons and taskbar on a Windows box. Some googling brought up ComboFix. Reading the description, it looks like it could be a handy tool, and from a trusted computer repair/diagnostics site.

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By Matthieu, 2009-09-22 19:56

My faithful readers (all 0 of them) may notice that the site is considerably faster now. My blog is now hosted on a proper server over at iweb in Montréal instead of on my home server, leaving it free for other tasks.

As seen previously, I was attempting to set up a combination MythTV/OpenVZ server. Well, I finally got it working:

1. Install Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04, 64-bit) and update until the update manager won’t update no more 😉
2. Install and configure MythTV backend. This step’s difficulty may vary depending on the tuner card. My Hauppage HVR-1600 was supported by Ubuntu out-of-the-box.
3. Add the Debian Lenny stable and update repos to /etc/apt/sources.list and apt-get update.
4. Download Linux driver for Intel Pro 1000 PCIe card.
5. Install vzctl, linux-image-2.6-openvz-amd64,  linux-headers-2.6-openvz-amd64, update-grub if necessary.
6. Reboot, make sure openvz kernel is running.
7. Make && make install Intel e1000e driver.
8. (Optional) Install Proxmox VE by adding proxmox repo.
9. (Optional) Install mercurial and hg clone v4l-dvb. The main branch was broken, so I used one of the dev’s personal repos. make && make install v4l-dvb; cx18 now works again.

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By Matthieu, 2009-09-18 20:33

Went to the U2 concert in Toronto yesterday. Absolutely AWESOME show, definitely worth the crazy $265 tickets. They played a great mix of older songs and enough tracks from “No Line on the Horizon” to get me to really like the new album (a bit like when I went to Coldplay’s Viva la Vida show in Ottawa). Sadly though, I didn’t manage to get any pictures or videos, I brought my DSLR but alas, there was no SD card in it. A colleague managed to get some great shots though (to be posted soon).

Video by David Cote