Adventures As Me http://blog.tel-cor.com Programming, life, oddities Tue, 15 May 2012 22:49:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Resolving fglrx issue initializing dri http://blog.tel-cor.com/2012/05/15/resolving-fglrx-issue-initializing-dri/ http://blog.tel-cor.com/2012/05/15/resolving-fglrx-issue-initializing-dri/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 22:49:18 +0000 telcor http://blog.tel-cor.com/?p=367 Executive summary: newer versions of fglrx appear to rely upon ACPI support. Ensure you don’t have ACPI disabled at boot time.

On OpenSUSE 12.1 all attempts to make 3d accelartion with the ATI Proprietary drivers resulted in failure. This was particularly troublesome as I had used the same setup for years (with the same hardware). [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://blog.tel-cor.com/2012/05/15/resolving-fglrx-issue-initializing-dri/feed/ 0 Address this! http://blog.tel-cor.com/2012/02/20/address-this/ http://blog.tel-cor.com/2012/02/20/address-this/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:01:10 +0000 telcor http://blog.tel-cor.com/?p=361 This past week saw some news items regarding iOS applications that scan your address book. Lifehacker has a brief writeup on an app that alerts you when the scanning happens. Trouble is, as is pointed out in the comments, this is going to generate too many false positives. Connectedness, or social networking, is trumpeted every where. [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://blog.tel-cor.com/2012/02/20/address-this/feed/ 0 Using Minecraft Texture Packs on OS X http://blog.tel-cor.com/2011/07/18/using-minecraft-texture-packs-on-os-x/ http://blog.tel-cor.com/2011/07/18/using-minecraft-texture-packs-on-os-x/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:10:33 +0000 telcor http://blog.tel-cor.com/2011/07/18/using-minecraft-texture-packs-on-os-x/ Do texture packs work with Minecraft on the OS X platform? Yes, yes they do. Is it as simple as dropping the file(s) into ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/texturepacks? No, no it isn’t.

After searching for several weeks on this (it took so long because I was avoiding all the youtube videos) I finally found the solution. Here [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://blog.tel-cor.com/2011/07/18/using-minecraft-texture-packs-on-os-x/feed/ 0 Crib Notes: Pimp Your Mac with Perl http://blog.tel-cor.com/2011/06/27/crib-notes-pimp-your-mac-with-perl/ http://blog.tel-cor.com/2011/06/27/crib-notes-pimp-your-mac-with-perl/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:53:52 +0000 telcor http://blog.tel-cor.com/2011/06/27/crib-notes-pimp-your-mac-with-perl/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://blog.tel-cor.com/2011/06/27/crib-notes-pimp-your-mac-with-perl/feed/ 2 Todo: investigate App::GitGot http://blog.tel-cor.com/2011/06/27/todo-investigate-appgitgot/ http://blog.tel-cor.com/2011/06/27/todo-investigate-appgitgot/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:57:51 +0000 telcor http://blog.tel-cor.com/2011/06/27/todo-investigate-appgitgot/ App::GitGot simplifies management of multiple git repositories. It provides simply status reports and update management. It’s goal is to support multiple repo types but only supports git at the moment.

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What is the equivalent on an openSUSE system?

This is what I [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://blog.tel-cor.com/2010/09/17/opensuse-equivalent-of-rc-local/feed/ 2 Linux 15 years on http://blog.tel-cor.com/2010/09/16/linux-15-years-on/ http://blog.tel-cor.com/2010/09/16/linux-15-years-on/#comments Fri, 17 Sep 2010 04:28:11 +0000 telcor http://blog.tel-cor.com/2010/09/16/linux-15-years-on/ This month marks the 15th anniversary of my foray into Linux. It all began with the mention of the word Linux on a BBS I frequented in Bisbee, Arizona (I lived in Douglas, AZ at the time). Not long after that I chanced upon a book entitled “Using Linux.[*]” I bought the book and installed [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://blog.tel-cor.com/2010/09/16/linux-15-years-on/feed/ 0 Application Focus Amock http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/08/12/application-focus-amock/ http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/08/12/application-focus-amock/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:43:27 +0000 telcor http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/08/12/applicaition-focus-amock/ Applications that steal focus are the bane of my computer experience. Particularly egregious are the ‘sudo’ type authentication dialogs on the OS X platform. On a multi-monitor setup ( which I have at work ) these dialogs remove the focus to a place where one is not looking. It is too easy to continue type [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/08/12/application-focus-amock/feed/ 0 Posting from within http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/08/07/posting-from-within/ http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/08/07/posting-from-within/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:16:37 +0000 telcor http://blog.tel-cor.com/2009/08/07/posting-from-within/ Just a simple post. Emacs is still my main editor. The real question is: how much have I edited? Answer: very little.

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