Martin Atkins

• 

  • Martin Atkins  Nice to hear that you got it working. Did you consider putting the bootloader and kernel in a separate FAT16 partition and just having the rest of the system on a normal ext3 partition? That way, you can mount the FAT16 partition at /boot and allow kernel upgrades to be done as normal. Your approach makes me nervous because the filesystem contents are going to change dramatically at some point in the boot process. I guess it's not a major problem in practice -- filesystems get mounted pretty early on during boot -- but it's just another thing you have to be weary of when installing/configuring software.
  • • 3 months ago
    •   Portable Ubuntu: working!
    •   revjim.net
  •   Jim Reverend  I did consider it. The problem is I only know very litte about syslinux and kernel building. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to get it right without following the instructions I had which did it this way. I didn't want to spend hours more trying to figure out that one bit. (sent via BlackBerry)
  • • 1 point
    • 1 reply

  

  • Martin Atkins  When you say "it doesn't work", what exactly is happening? Is grub giving some sort of error?
  • • 3 months ago
    •   Portable Ubuntu Problems
    •   revjim.net
  •   Jim Reverend  Black screen. Blinking cursor at top left. Eventually a couple of new lines. Then it jumps to the windows bootloader and boots windows normally.
  • • 1 point
    • 1 reply

  

  • Martin Atkins  I've been considering an EeePC, but ASUS has said that a newer model with a higher-resolution screen is on the horizon, so I've been holding out for that. Hopefully they'll add bluetooth as well; it seems like a bit of an omission for a portable computer.
  • • 3 months ago
    •   help: portable, internet capable devices
    •   revjim.net
  •   Jim Reverend  Certainly! I mean, with all the stuff they packed into that little device, what more is a bluetooth radio. I'd rather have it than a wired ethernet port, myself. Of course the new version will probably have a much high price point as well -- at least at first. Which puts it into a different class all together. On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Disqus
  • • 1 point
    • 1 reply

  

  • Martin Atkins  I got that same error. The signup form just seems to be completely broken.
  • • 4 months ago
    •   Disqus and OpenID
    •   revjim.net
  • • 1 point
    • 0 replies

  

  • Martin Atkins  Regarding what you've said about LiveJournal, those friends of yours who don't want to get a full LiveJournal account and its associated "yet another password" could use their Yahoo!, AOL, Flickr, or likely some other account to log in to LiveJournal via OpenID. Once they've logged in once and their account has been "vivified" you can add them as a friend just like any local LiveJournal user, and they can read your friends only entries from your recent entries page.
  • • 5 months ago
    •   Where’s Jim/Daniel/Daniel James/That Hot Guy?
    •   revjim.net
  •   Jim Reverend  Good point! LiveJournal is very OpenID friendly. I've never jumped through the hoops required to make it work, but, for those anti-another-password type people, this is a great "option B". Thanks!
  • • 1 point
    • 1 reply