FOASS
IaaS, PaaS, SaaS… and now this. They’ll turn anything into a service these days! :) http://foaas.com/ Not free software, so I won’t be using it.
View ArticleGamers no longer need dual-boot
Tonight I completed Outlast, a first person survival horror (read my review here) under Wine on GNU/Linux, and have updated my Finished Games list to reflect this. Looking through that list, one thing...
View ArticleExciting hardware in 2015
It’s been a long time since I have seen any new hardware truly excite me. The last time I can recall such an event was perhaps the release of largish affordable SSDs, or perhaps the release of...
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Automount USB devices on login
There’s an issue I’ve been wanting to sort out for over a year, but it’s one of those niggling annoyances that’s just hard enough to find an elegant solution for that encourages me to keep putting it...
View ArticleHow to replace LightDM with XDM in Wheezy
My machine is an Asus G55VW laptop, and it seems to have a very annoying UEFI or Nvidia driver bug. Even under Windows (which the laptop came with), everybody with this model is experiencing odd...
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Customising XDM for the modern desktop
As per my previous blog post, I’m now using XDM as a login manager. By default, it looks like something straight out of the ’80s. Having said that, it’s not too difficult to give it additional...
View ArticleHP 14-AF113AU 14″ Notebook initial impressions
Last week, I was unfortunate enough to have my Asus UX31A laptop stolen from my apartment. Fortunately I use LUKS full disk encryption for all my machines, so I don’t need to worry much about data...
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1400漢字
I’ve been slowly working my way through Heisig’s Remembering the Kanji 1 over the past year, or 13 months to be more precise. My first card (the kanji meaning one, 一) was added 2019-08-17. Today marks...
View ArticleASRock X99 Extreme4 running GNU/Linux
I picked up an old ASRock X99 Extreme4 motherboard from my workplace during an office move a while back which was no longer required by the company. Naturally I put Debian GNU/Linux on it! It does not...
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