Category Archives: GNU/Linux

How to recover an ext3 volume with an unreadable journal

Posted on June 19, 2009 by Trick

Last Wednesday I came to work to find my workstation had died overnight — and upon reboot, it failed to mount or fsck the root partition.  Unfortunately it seems my disk has seen enough service and was having failed reads: … Continue reading →

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GUADEC followup

Posted on July 24, 2007 by Trick

Wowzers, what a great time! Was intending to write about each day individually, but that’s certainly out of the question now. GUADEC was a great experience and I’m hooked on the community! A big thanks to everyone who helped put … Continue reading →

Posted in Banshee, Free and Open Source, GNU/Linux, GUADEC 2007, Gnome, MTP, Nifty, Travel, Uncategorized, libgphoto2-sharp | 1 Comment

GUADEC Core Day 1

Posted on July 18, 2007 by Trick

Wowzers, what a day! Jono’s talk was excellent. Video taped the morning sessions in Recital; the F-Spot presentation was great. Larry is working on some sweet ass stuff. Sync’ing our photos online — integration with web services — I think … Continue reading →

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GUADEC Warmup Day 2

Posted on July 18, 2007 by Trick

So I arrived in London around 6 AM; everything went quickly.  Plane ride was fun, albeit quite cozy. Took the paddington express train, which is super slick, jumped on the underground to Euston, and wandered around for a while until … Continue reading →

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NetworkManager and Gentoo

Posted on July 21, 2006 by Trick

So, I’ve recently converted my laptop to Gentoo, and before I even had the base system merged in, I thought I should research NetworkManager. I was running Slackware 10.2 on the lappy, and I had never considered NetworkManager due to … Continue reading →

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MTP: it’s alive!

Posted on June 21, 2006 by Trick

Last night the addition of MTP support to Banshee landed in CVS HEAD. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it’s true! The days of command line interfaces for your snazzy new Creative, iRiver, etc. player are nearly over. All you have to … Continue reading →

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