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mirror, mirror, tell me where to get my software!

There are many mirrors for Debian, the linux kernel, and Ubuntu (the 3 main pieces i care finding mirrors for). But if you're in Montréal, there's better ones than what you see in the official lists, for when you want to download the latest Ubuntu CD.
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by wiswaud on 14 November 2008 | 0 comments

new nvidia driver in feisty...

I was having some trouble with installing the latest nvidia driver in Feisty; a nifty little program solved it...
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by wiswaud on 26 September 2007 | 0 comments

Speeding up your linux mounts...

If you're running linux, here's a tip that you must have heard already, but you might have forgotten to put in your new installs: add the noatime,nodiratime,data=writeback mount options. It'll speed things up in a huge way. It may break things like mutt, but i always use noatime and i don't think i've seen many things break because of it (or, rather, i haven't been able to blame noatime to any of the little problems i've seen :) ).

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by wiswaud on 9 August 2007 | 2 comments

samsung 205BW in Feisty...

I couldn't get that monitor to work in its native resolution (1680x1050 60Hz) in Ubuntu Feisty, with the Intel driver... tried almost everything. Finally googled deep enough to find the problem, so here's the solution, in case you're still searching.
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by wiswaud on 6 July 2007 | 1 comment

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