Acer Aspire One AO722: Linux vs Wireless

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3 months ago
by Chris Weyl in

IF you just bought a new Acer netbook from Costco (as my partner just did), be aware that under Linux the wireless will cause the system to hang just about 100% of the time after associating with an access point.

However, the fix turned out to be relatively easy — make sure your BIOS/firmware is at the latest level available (1.08 as of this writing), and Things Will Just Work.

Now, if I could just get the microphone to work…

Fedora && git

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1 year ago
by Chris Weyl in

Recently, Fedora switched its package repositories over from one big CVS repository to a one-git-repo-per-package scheme.  So recently that I had to install the latest fedora-packager rpm from updates-testing to be able to access it.

So far, I like it — I’ll save the bulk of judgment until I get a chance to really work with it, but I’m liking it so far.  A couple things that I’ve already noiticed:

You can use fedpkg clone perl-Moose…  Which basically just figures out who you are, constructs the appropriate URI, and calls git clone.  You can also set up an alias to make the URI easier for manual usage:

[url "ssh://cweyl@pkgs.fedoraproject.org/"]
    InsteadOf=fedora:

Certain git settings will help keep things sane for you and others:

git config --global push.default tracking
git config --global branch.autosetuprebase always
git config --global branch.autosetumerge true

To set up a local branch right off the bat, for every master distro branch (tweak if you don’t care about EPEL branches):

git br -a | perl -nE '$b = (split /\//)[2]; system "git br $b origin/$b/master" if $b =~ /^[ef]/'

I’m looking forward to playing with this more :)

Goodness, I have a lot of O’Reilly books

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1 year ago
by Chris Weyl in

So, as I’m packing for the move from #SFO to #PDX, I’m also taking the time to register all the O’Reilly books I’ve acquired over the years.  And goodness, do I ever have a ton of them… Even with the cuecat it’s taking forever to scan them in.

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