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What a Difference 0.1 V Can Make

I meant to write about this last week. My main amd64 box crashed the other week and managed to clear the BIOS settings along with it. It is a socket 754 Gigabyte board that I have never had too much...

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System Freezes Caused by the Proprietary Nvidia Driver

Today my system locked up yet again, and as far as I can tell this is due to the proprietary Nvidia driver I use and has been present for many driver versions. I keep meaning to look into this problem...

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My New Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi and Gentoo

I got a few new toys delivered to me last week. On Thursday I got a Fuji F10 6.3 MP digital camera which is a really great camera - take a look here for more details. It was recognised as a USB mass...

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New Laptop and KDE 3.5

Well I seem to have my new laptop working pretty well. I decided to just put KDE 3.5 alpha1 on there from the start and see how it goes! It is working great with the new hal/pmount stuff. I was using...

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New Server Online!

I have been so busy recently. Over the weekend I was getting my new server online and configured. Some of you may remember the terrible problems I had with 1&1 a while back. Then the manic...

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My Main System is Dead...

As the title says my main system is dead. I was working on it earlier, went to get some dinner and came back later to find it powered down. Hit the power button and it never POSTed Stripped it down...

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Got My New System Working

Got my new system up and running yesterday. I would like to thank Mastercard and NatWest for helping my to purchase a new PSU, motherboard, graphics card and AMD Althlon64 X2 3800+! I haven't worked...

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Timer Issues Solved With AMD Athlon64 X2 Dual Core Goodness

I have had my newish system up and running for most of the weekend now. I noticed when doing lots of compilation/work on the system that I sometimes ended up with 10 characters where I had only typed...

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MADWiFi Broken on AMD64

I had to mark net-wireless/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20051111 -amd64 as it just causes kernel panics. Until today I have not been able to bring up their web site (database errors or timeouts). Downgrading...

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MADWiFi Working on AMD64 Again

Well they finally fixed the new MADWiFi driver to work with AMD64 again, after about two months or so of it causes a kernel oops whenever traffic was transmitted over the wireless link. I have been...

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AMD64 Based PVR: Part 1 - The Adventure Begins

Well I had an old motherboard with an Athlon64 3200+ in it (previous burnt out PSU that wasn't quite as bad as it looked). So I bought 1 GB of RAM, a new PSU, a Hauppage PVR-500, used my old nVidia...

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AMD64 Based PVR: Part 2 - Mostly Successful

Well I have been mostly successful I think with my MythTV project. Dabs still have me waiting around on the 300 GB hard drive and new case, so it is stuck on a temporary 40 GB hard drive and an old...

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AMD64 Based PVR: Part 2 - Some Failures

I have been really busy recently and so haven't had as much time as I might have liked to work on my PVR. After spending a while working on it lastnight I thought I would write a little about some of...

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Matter Compilers

In between working on my thesis I have been reading some really interesting posts on a blog from the EPSRC Ideas Factory on the "Software Control of Matter". To me and many others this is an extremely...

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My Acer Ferrari Laptop - Too Hot To Handle

In the last few months the CPU temperature of my Acer Ferrari 4005 laptop has been getting higher and higher when idle or under load. I suspected it was just some dust reducing cooling efficiency but...

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