It became time for me to interface an LCD with my Arduino. I need to generate a handy report of what my various sensors are picking up. The following is an account of my notes on twisting up my HD44780 compatible LCD on the Arduino.…
So, I couldn’t figure out how to get my Macbook function keys to default to function keys under Linux, rather than media keys such as brightness, volume control, etc. I searched all over the net for information on this feature, and could only find stuff…
If you plan on buying memory, it most certainly MUST be Kingston memory. I bought 4G of Kingston memory from CDW Canada, for my Macbook, and it was DOA. I tried it in my Macbook; Linux was freezing up, and Mac OS X was telling…
If you are using VMware-Workstation-6.5.1-126130.x86_64, you will find that it does not work on kernels greater than or equal to 2.6.29. The vmware modules will not load. I found one patch for vmware to work with the Linux kernel 2.6.29 on the vmware forums, and…
I recently had a misfortune, in that somehow my volume group meta-data got corrupted, and LVM would not enable the volume group. Essentially, I lost my LVM volume disk. This happened after I resized a volume, and had done a file system check before and…
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