Posted in Funny, Linux, Open Source, Random Stuff on November 19th, 2008 No Comments »
A realistic ending to the gnome-cups-manager README file, courtesy of Kevin Warns. Somebody should submit this back to Gnome SVN… New (sad, morbid, realistic) ending: 43 The little girl looked up at him. “What are you?” she asked. 44 45 “I’m a printer!” said the printer. 46 47 “A what?” asked the little girl. 48 [...]
Posted in General on November 18th, 2008 No Comments »
As of today, I am now HP certified to work on HP Desktops, Notebooks, and Workstations. That’s one more for the resume! Thank you for using Prometric Prime Testing Systems. Below are the results of your recently attempted test: ============================================= Name: Blake Johnson Test Title: Q01-Servicing HP Dsktops, Wrkstations, and Ntbooks Start time: 11/18/2008 8:20:44 [...]
Posted in Linux, Open Source, OpenSUSE on November 17th, 2008 No Comments »
The topic for #opensuse-gnome is: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME | Meeting done. Transcripts coming soon! (ahem) | Channel stats: http://coolice.org jpr_: the famous bug reporter BlakeJohnson86 BlakeJohnson86: Yeah? BlakeJohnson86: Well, I don’t know about famous… jpr_: BlakeJohnson86: well, i’ve read at least some of your bug reporting work jpr_: What a nice way to be greeted.
Posted in Linux, Open Source on November 11th, 2008 26 Comments »
This took me a while to figure out, so I wrote directions to hopefully make it easier for other people. First, you need to get the proper firmware for the EEE PC you are going to flash. Go to http://www.asus.com/ and find the latest firmware for your model. Extract the *.ROM file from the *.zip [...]