Archive for October, 2005

Teamspeak on Lniux

I decided to run Teamspeak on Linux today.
After downloading the tar, I decompressed it /etc/ by following the documentation.
The next task was to copy the data from my old system. As the drive is already mounted in the file system, the process was a breeze. The files to copy are
server.dbs
server.ini
server.log
I copied these files into the [...]

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Windows Files Systems and Booting Woes

The battle is on. Me vs. the Windows disk structure.

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Nokias Don’t Like Baths

My Nokia went for a swim in my bathroom on Saturday.
If only for a few seconds – it caused the phone great distress throughout the day. Even after removing the XPress on covers and drying it down with a tea-towel, it wasn’t happy.
As the day progressed, the screen displayed a wonderful array of psychedelic colours [...]

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I’m Tired and My Palm Don’t Love Me

I almost fainted yesterday.
I took my T3 Palm out of my pocket and pressed address book. The screen was blank.
I gulped.
I slid open the screen which is set to fire up the Palm. Nothing.
I stopped breathing.
Finally, I pressed the power button.
Nothing. Nada. A sausage not.
My Palm’s battery had decided that it had had enough for [...]

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Logitech USB Headset and Linux

I’ve been having a battle with my Logitech USB headset over the last couple of days. If there’s on thing I liked in Windows a great deal, that was the simplicity of the USB headset.
If I plug it in, all the sound would be defaulted to the headset. When unplugged, the sound would go back [...]

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Win2Lin Day 2

So here I am on the Linux PC.
I’m growing increasingly frustrated at the various flavours of Linux, and the subtle differences between them. So much so that I can’t even find a simple command line to restart the samba server.
the IMAP server seems to be fickle. I can’t get Squirrelmail to show me the inbox. [...]

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