Archive for February, 2008

February 25th, 2008

Plea for help

So, um, I don’t do this often, but I could do with some help. Basically: I am drowning in an unending sea of bugs. Last year we set up a much better process for handling bugs than we previously had. There is now a proper policy for bugs defining exactly what can, should, and can’t [...]

February 6th, 2008

Multiple external monitors, on a laptop, on Linux, with Tritton See2 USB video adapter / sisusb

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE: for anyone coming to this post via Google, one, what’s written in it is mostly impossible with modern distributions, since you can’t use the old i810 driver any more with recent X.org releases. Two, there’ll soon be a much better option – DisplayLink drivers for Linux. See here. I decided today that [...]

February 1st, 2008

Busy times and browsers

Some of you probably noticed I haven’t been around as much as usual this week. Been doing some major furniture rearrangement here at Monkey Central, so now I have my own desk in a corner of the living room and my feet aren’t being warmed by the rear vent of my server machine and cramped [...]