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Linuxsoup moves to a new home

The primary site (http://www.linuxsoup.com) has now been migrated to a new home. Unfortunately it fell stagnant during the past few years as people moved, services moved, jobs changes, etc... But alas, as soon as the DNS changes fall in to place the site should be fully operational again.

Disk maintenance with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 & LVM mirroring

Over the last couple of weeks, smartd has begun logging a flurry of "Currently unreadable (pending) sectors" messages. When this particular host was deployed, I elected to use LVM mirroring (not mdadm or dmraid) for data redundancy. Here are the basic steps I followed to do some basic tests and ultimately replace the failing device.

Fedora 14 Linux on HP dv4-2155dx with qualcomm gobi2000 03f0:241d 03f0:251d

In recent months (6 months ago?) I upgraded the HP dv4-2155dx with a Intel Core i5, additional memory (8 GB total) & Fedora 14. Now I'm curious what the net benefit has been. Reportedly, the Core i5 benefits from turboboost and a few other i7 features. I have everything working this time, including the multi-format SD card. Read on for full details...

Fedora 14 Linux with Creative Live! Cam Socialize HD

So last week Dell had a sale & I picked up a Creative Live! web camera for 20 bucks. Features on the box read: HD 1280x720, fast frame rates up to 30fps in HD, microphone with noise cancellation, face tracking, 4x digital zoom and... right on the box it states "Works with MAC & Linux". We will have to see about that!

Creative Live! Cam Socialize HD Webcam $20 at Dell

Creative Live! Cam Socialize HD Webcam $20 at Dell - Today only. Dell has the Creative Live! Cam Socialize HD Web Camera (73VF061000000) for $20 with free shipping. Features 1280 x 720 HD video @ 30 fps, 5.7MP still images and one-touch upload to YouTube and Photobucket. [Compare] [BensBargains]

Guess I will have something new to review in a week or so...

(SOLVED) Fedora 13 & 14 Linux on HP dv4-2155dx with RealTek 5288 multi-card reader

Having had my HP dv4-2155dx for about a year now, I've been disappointed that I have not been able to leverage the integrated multi format card reader. The device is based on the RealTek 5288 chipset & as it turns out ... requires a driver to be downloaded and installed. Read on for details on where to download and how to install it...

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