This site is now hosted from a dedicated server in Zurich, Germany. I will report on the quality of this new provider in a couple of months
When running the ybin -v
utility to update the boot menu on my iBook, I got the following output:
ybin: Finding OpenFirmware device path to `/dev/hda6'...
ybin: Finding OpenFirmware device path to `/dev/hda3'...
ybin: Installing first stage bootstrap /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot onto /dev/hda6...
ybin: Installing primary …
From now on I will only be installing Debian GNU/Linux on computer at home. I've 'switched' for a number of times in the past, but I always thought that there would be something better. When even Mac OS X could not satisfy me, there was only one option left …
eelco@saga:~$ traceroute ns2.eurodns.com
traceroute to ns2.eurodns.com (80.92.67.140), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 saga.privatenet (192.168.111.1) 2.523 ms 0.649 ms 0.688 ms
2 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 1.717 ms 1 …
This week I was able to remove two things on my 'switching to linux on the desktop' tasklist:
I haven't actually used it yet, but keypresses on my remote control are visible within the operating system
I did …