TechKnack

I’ve been using the latest version of FireFox 2 (version 2.0.0.14) since it hit the Ubuntu repos. On June 27, I decided to upgrade to 3.0 final. I didn’t want to, really, until certain addons (not to mention my absolute favorite FF2 theme) had been upgraded with 3.0 compatibility. But FF2 was [...]

Recently I was doing some quick google-research on sheet paper sizes; I came across a wikipedia image which showed A-sheet sizes — in millimeters. Being an American who prefers to deal in inches, I did a Google search to get the inch equivalent of 210mm. I expected to find a website that could [...]

If you’re in the market for a wifi card (be it desktop or notebook) and you’re an avid Linux user, you may be interested in knowing if a card will work with linux before you commit to the buy. The authors of passys.nl have set up a user-contributed list of wireless cards and their [...]

To complement my recent XBox softmodding project, I bought a Linksys WRT54G router to install DD-WRT on. For those not in the know, DD-WRT is a third-party, linux-based, model-specific router firmware. It basically does to routers what Ubuntu does to your desktop or notebook, XBMC does to your XBox, and RockBox does to [...]

Softmodding the XBox, provided you have the right tools, is as easy as installing a program in Windows. Run the given installer, following the step-by-step, and hope everything goes right. Usually it does, until something isn’t clearly explained, and then you have to troubleshoot it. Although the key phrase there is “having [...]