Category Archives: News

Novell’s Xgl.. Great Linux eye-candy

I’ve installed Xgl on my desktop (Ubuntu Development Branch – Dapper 6.04) and it is sweet! Check out some screenshots here. The tutorial I used to install is here. This is a list of known-supported video cards (nvidia popular as expected)

(PCI)ID-Catcher for Linux (ubuntu) & ndiswrapper

I’ve written a pretty basic (but ugly) script to retrieve the PCI ID of a wireless network card. This is helpful for anyone trying to find the ID for use with ndiswrapper. You can find this for download under my Downloads section. Simply unzip/untar, and run using “./id-catcher”. Assuming it finds your ID it’ll simply… Read More »

Blog Migration

I am considering migrating my previous static .html home page to a WordPress Blog. So far I am impressed with the blog capabilities and ease of use. I really should migrate my mom’s blog to WordPress too! I think this looks much cleaner, very easy to use & of course simpler to update than manually… Read More »