http://cro.alienpants.com Musings on Digital Identity, and other things Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:48:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In a follow-up to my post about 64bit Linux and Vodafone 3G Dongles, here's how I got it working under 32bit linux: Download and install beta3 edit your blacklist file and blacklist airprime remove airprime (modprobe -r airprime) Plug in your dongle Run the Vodafone Mobile Connect software I'm currently connected using my 3G dongle under ... http://cro.alienpants.com/index.php/2008/09/29/32bit-linux-and-vodafone-3g-dongles/ After a little bit of work and a strange error, I managed to get one of Vodafone's Huawei E172 USB 3G dongles working with 64-bit Ubuntu. I used the 2.0beta3 AMD64 drivers (I'll be trying the i386 ones on my laptop later), however the device, whilst detected, would never connect - ... http://cro.alienpants.com/index.php/2008/09/01/64bit-linux-and-vodafone-3g-usb-dongles/ I've been conflicted of late with the newly released 8.8 drivers for ATI cards. I have both an X1950 Pro in my home machine (under Windows XP) and an HD4850 in my work machine, however the 8.8 drivers just refuse to work under 64-bit Linux, no matter how many times ... http://cro.alienpants.com/index.php/2008/08/27/ati-88-under-64-bit-linux/ One of my favourite games of the past few years is a game called Beyond Good and Evil. It never got a lot of press, but did garner a dedicated fan base. Now Ubisoft have revealed they are finally making a sequel, most likely for the Xbox 360, PS3 or both. Now, ... http://cro.alienpants.com/index.php/2008/07/09/beyond-good-and-evil-2-coming/ A story from the games industry popping up today has word of a patented technology that would allow tracking of vehicles in a race, which can then be inserted into a simulation, allowing gamers to participate in real-time with a real-world race. During the BarrysWorld days, we sponsored a racing car ... http://cro.alienpants.com/index.php/2008/06/13/real-time-racing/ The recent release of the Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron beta prompted me to investigate, and run the dist-upgrade. The Gutsy Gibbon beta release and subsequent upgrades was a relatively painless process, and Ubuntu gets better with every release. Two things that did concern me, as they seem to impact every time ... http://cro.alienpants.com/index.php/2008/03/31/presario-f500-wireless-and-ubuntu-804-hardy-heron/ We all like friends, and having the ability to add and remove friends within a social network is critical. How you deal with managing friends from a design point of view is an interesting one. There are many approaches, depending on the type of information you want to store about the ... http://cro.alienpants.com/index.php/2008/01/04/social-network-friends/ One of the default screensavers included with Ubuntu 7.10 is one that will display whatever pictures you have saved in your 'Pictures' folder (/home/<username>/Pictures). The screensaver will randomly display a picture from this and any subfolders. However, there's no way of customsing which folder the screensaver reads if you ... http://cro.alienpants.com/index.php/2008/01/04/customising-the-pictures-folder-screensaver-in-ubuntu-gutsy/ After fiddling about all last night trying to get the laptop to boot, I gave up around 1am and went and played some World of Warcraft. Then just before bed I checked the Ubuntu forums again. A bit of searching for my laptop name and model led me to a ... http://cro.alienpants.com/index.php/2007/12/09/laptop-hardware-upgrade-part-2/ There comes a time when the 20Gb partition you set aside on a dual-boot system to run Ubuntu just isn't big enough, so the idea of upgrading to a spanky new hard drive with a little more room becomes very attractive. This is a path I started down this afternoon on ... http://cro.alienpants.com/index.php/2007/12/08/laptop-hardware-upgrade/