Sat 12 August 2006, by Seppe "Macuyiko" vanden Broucke
After quickly setting up Windows XP and removing all the unnecessary software (who wants Symantec for God’s sake?) it was time to think about booting the Ubuntu installer.
This would be a non-trivial task for me, because my CD/DVD-burner/reader has not arrived yet and I could …
It was getting late when I finally figured out how to properly boot. Now: it was time for the actual install…
Of course: I had to partition, but I wanted to keep Windows XP (on a smaller partition) and my Recovery partition. I was happy to see a resize option …
Ubuntu’s finished installing. It all looks nice.
I picked a nice wallpaper, set my workspaces to 8, and installed gnome-art (sudo apt-get install gnome-art). Picked some nice decorations (I like the Human theme but not that much) and sat back for a few seconds to admire my new desktop …
i810… glxinfo | grep direct is giving nothing. Something about 1.5.0 expected but 1.4.* found.
Anyhow: I could not get it to work. It seemed fine however, but glgears proved otherwise: slow as hell.
I was giving up on it and decided to try and install AIGLX, so …
Good news everyone: yesterday my Thinkpad X60 arrived. I toyed a little bit but had already decided I wanted to put Ubuntu on it.
I encountered some (small) problems on my way to my perfect Ubuntu setup, but I’ve been able to solve them. In the following posts I …
Update: check out new post with updated instructions over here.
Recently I found my old copy of Sacrifice (Gamespot link). I really like this game because it reminds me of Jullian Gollop‘s Chaos. (Has anyone ever played this game on the Spectrum?) Basically, it’s a bunch of wizards …