Today, I’ve been working on a server that doesn’t want to mount one of the partitions that has been formatted with reiserfs.
Using the fsck command doesn’t work because there are bad blocks on the drive, resulting in fsck vehemently refusing to cooperate.:
Cannot read the block (41713664): (Input/output error).
To get fsck to play with such a [...]

Sometimes I get a little carried away with messing around with the settings in Beryl. I think that through various upgrading to 0.2, downgrading and then upgrading through the SVC repository and playing with options, I’ve probably wasted 5-6 hours of my life.
Anyway, one thing I have noticed is that the desktop switcher sometimes doesn’t [...]

As I get more and more stuck into getting Ubuntu to work nicely for me – I find myself more and more determined to resolve the little issues that nag me.
Today, I decided to finally get the extended mouse support for my Logitech MX5000 desktop working, and thankfully the process wasn’t too fraught with Bad [...]

John offers a straight-forward guide to get fetchmail to work in Ubuntu using fetchmailconf, and running it as a daemon.

After cursing Linux for not seeming to have a decent open source virtual machine platform, I’ve found out that an application called VirtualBox is now open source.
Seeing as I’ve been quite comfortable using Virtual PC 2007 up to now, I thought that it would be nice to see if I can get Windows XP running [...]

Release 1 of the OpenXML Translator for Microsoft Word is now available through Sourceforge.
This tool allows MS Word users to open files saved in OpenOffice Write format (.ODF), make modifications and save the files.
Microsoft is due to release this through its website shortly, and apparently there will be Impress and Calc converters, too.
For people who [...]