Category Archives: hacks

PXE / Net booting Open Solaris 200805 release.

Posted on May 24, 2008 by iain

Introduction After the disk in my laptop recently died I decided that it would be a good time to try and install the latest version of Open Solaris onto my laptop. Unfortunately the only option I have for installing new … Continue reading →

Posted in code, debug, hacks, Net Boot, networking, Open Solaris, PXE, Solaris | 4 Comments

High cpu usage from eog / gnome-panel ? blame gtk’s recent-manager.

Posted on March 31, 2008 by iain

After re-organising a large number of photos using eog I started to notice spikes of cpu usage while moving from image to image. At first this was just inconvenient but as time went on (and as more photos were viewed) … Continue reading →

Posted in code, debug, gtk, hacks, Linux | 1 Comment

Console gaming on a remote X display

Posted on November 24, 2006 by iain

I have recently ended up in a situation where creating something like this (see diagram) would allow me to play my Game Cube on my laptop display before I finalise my purchase of a nice new LCD display for my … Continue reading →

Posted in hacks, Linux, v4l | 1 Comment