Disqus - Latest Comments for Martin Atkins

Re: Where’s Jim/Daniel/Daniel James/That Hot Guy?

Martin Atkins — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:03:58 -0000

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.

Re: Disqus and OpenID

Martin Atkins — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:18:37 -0000

I got that same error. The signup form just seems to be completely broken.

Re: help: portable, internet capable devices

Martin Atkins — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:45:37 -0000

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.

Re: Portable Ubuntu Problems

Martin Atkins — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:51:19 -0000

When you say "it doesn't work", what exactly is happening? Is grub giving some sort of error?

Re: Portable Ubuntu: working!

Martin Atkins — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:11:19 -0000

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.