http://brentscheffler.com/blog A renaissance view of technology Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:02:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Beginning with the purchase of my 37" Samsung 1080p TV, I started the snowballing effect of upgrading my sadly outdated analog entertainment set up. My Sony 26" standard definition TV was starting to show signs of aging and reappearing gaussing (those rainbow colored distortions) in the corners. Best Buy had ... http://brentscheffler.com/blog/2009/08/03/my-total-living-room-upgrade/ First a little background... Why would one want to install Linux on an external USB hard drive instead of setting up a dual-boot type system? Well, for starters, the intended target for this OS is my laptop. My laptop hard drive already has Vista installed and I didn't feel like using ... http://brentscheffler.com/blog/2009/03/16/installing-linux-on-an-external-usb-hard-drive/ Yet again, I seem to be getting a bad initrd image with a Kernel update. On boot, the system will respond with: mount: cannot mount /dev/root on /sysroot The solution, as stated in the previous post, is to boot into a known working Kernel, and re-build the initrd image. Create a backup ... http://brentscheffler.com/blog/2009/03/04/bad-initrd-image-with-fedora-10-update/ I came in to work this morning and began my usual routine of removing my backpack, setting my cup of coffee down, setting up my laptop, and then "shaking" the mouse to wake up my desktop computer. (Yes, I bring my laptop to work with me even though I have ... http://brentscheffler.com/blog/2009/02/26/my-morning-and-a-possessed-computer/ Once you have your virtual environment setup and an OS installed, it is very likely that the system will not perform to its absolute potential. That's because the "hardware" which VMPlayer and VMWorkstation emulate is not supported by Windows or Linux by default. That's where VMWare Tools comes into play. ... http://brentscheffler.com/blog/2008/11/17/installing-vmware-tools-with-vmware-player/ Recently, I switched over to Linux as my desktop OS at work. The OS (Fedora) was installed on a dedicated drive and I kept my XP install intact on its own drive, knowing that at some point I may need to boot into Windows to run some application or test ... http://brentscheffler.com/blog/2008/11/10/vmware-raw-disk-bsod/ If you recently downloaded and installed WebSVN and have followed the Installation Guide only to receive this error: Please set up a repository path in include/config.php using $config->parentPath or $config->addRepository See the installation guide for more details you need to do one of two things. 1) Move include/config.php into the WebSVN root OR 2) Edit ... http://brentscheffler.com/blog/2008/08/12/websvn-installation/ Is it just me, or is anyone else experiencing new Realtek drivers being pushed through Windows Update (Vista) every week or two? It seems every time I update my Vista laptop (Toshiba) I am offered yet a new version of some Realtek drivers - WiFi, ethernet, or audio. Can they ... http://brentscheffler.com/blog/2008/04/08/realtek-drivers-for-vista/ I woke up this morning and began my daily ritual: cup of orange juice, bowl of cereal, and sat down to check my e-mail. As Outlook loaded on my laptop, I began to notice the "error" icon in the bottom right corner of the window. Thinking I had incorrectly entered ... http://brentscheffler.com/blog/2008/03/11/my-ip-changed/ I just finished a very grueling installation of a nifty little autoresponder called "Yet Another Autoresponder" (YAA.) The software is Perl based and requires only a few modules which can easily be installed or upgraded via CPAN. However, my difficulties in getting this system working were due to YAA not ... http://brentscheffler.com/blog/2008/02/14/yet-another-autoresponder-yaa-installation/