linux – Chad Dotson

Ubuntu 9.10 Aptitude Fix

By chad January 29, 2010Technology1 Comment

I encountered the following error in Aptitude after my Ubuntu 9.10 box fubar'd during an install. The message given by synaptic is similar. Reading package lists... Error! E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status E: The package lists or status file could not be…

Applying DD-WRT to a Linksys WRT54GL Router

By chad October 17, 2009UncategorizedNo Comments

My ancient D-Link 624 has showing signs of conking out over the past couple of months. That had put me in the dilemma of "Do I wait for 802.11n to be released or do I buy a modifiable router now?" Well, I made the decision. I bought an old, high…

EeePC Upgrades and Eeebuntu!

By chad August 27, 2009Technology1 Comment

I just finished my EeePC overhaul. In addition to the default Linux distribution sucking on the EeePC, the stock SSD is as slow as Christmas, the stock SSD is only 4gb, and only had 512mb of memory. For this mod, I used the following components: Kingston 1GB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM…

My X11 Configuration (Should It Help Anyone)

By chad May 17, 2009TechnologyNo Comments

I've not posted about this, but I recently repurposed an ancient pc into an ubuntu linux box. All went well except the display configuration in the xorg.conf file. The old ATI video card I had for that system went out years ago, since then its only had crappyvia integrated video…