So, back in September I decided to purchase a new laptop, the one I decided on was the Dell XPS 13 Sputnik (9333). This is an Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, 256GB mSATA based laptop which ships with Ubuntu 12.04 … Continue reading
I’ve taken five minutes to generate a new splash screen for my new XPS 13 laptop, it’s a silhouette of the famed Russian Sputnik satellite: Download here
After updating my 1005PE with an Intel 6300 network card and additional antennas I wanted to see how fast a real world copy could be through wireless. So I hopped on my internal file server and a large file 9.88 … Continue reading
For a while now I’ve owned an older EeePC 1005PE. I love the thing, running kubuntu 12.04 LTS it’s been a work horse for me. Recently I noticed that my wireless was becoming less reliable, plus it lacked 5GHz support … Continue reading
After some recent file system woes as well as some past system updates I ran into this error while trying to mount my encrypted home directory: Enter your login passphrase: Inserted auth tok with sig [**********************] into the user session … Continue reading
If you’ve noticed that your knetworkmanager is no longer functioning, likely NetworkManager has gotten it self into a bad state. This can happen on unclean shutdown or crash of the NetworkManager application. That said the solution is quite simple In … Continue reading