In a previous post (Recovering GRUB After Installing Windows 7) I described a situation where GRUB would not be able to detect your Windows 7 boot partition after you installed Ubuntu. The fix was to point the root directory to a small (or secret?) partition outside of the main Windows 7 NTFS partition. I recently [...]
This semester, Derek and I have been doing some work on Postgres’ buffer management system for my CSC443 Database Systems Technology course. Derek, wrote a nice little Python script that parses various Postgres outputs and does a bit of math on it. However, when I tried to run his script on my machine, I got [...]
In my continuing struggle to Linux-fy my X200, I blew away my entire hard drive and loaded the latest Ubuntu (8.10 – Intrepid Ibex). I’m liking it so far. One of the things with using Ubuntu is that you have to configure most of the hardware yourself. I had a bit of trouble getting the [...]