As written in another blog entry, I had found a way to remap the Alt and Apple keys in Windows. Since I did that I have mostly been using Windows and did not bother about how do to it to my Gentoo – until today. Continue reading
This was not invented here
“Die Zeit, die PHP-Programmierer an Entwicklungszeit gegen
Apple keyboard
I’ve recently bought a new keyboard, an Apple keyboard. The old one was just dirty and the cable almost broke, so I’ve decided to spend that money.
There are two things that had annoyed me a bit since then:
First, the Apple keyboard has the Command key which functions just like the Windows key, however being positioned at the place where normal PC keyboards have the Alt key.
Secondly, when waking the computer up through a keystroke, the keyboard only works correctly until the BIOS startup sequence has finished. In the boot menu (grub in this case) it does not do anything and it also takes its time to start working in the Windows login screen.
Issue no. 1 has now been solved: Continue reading
Save my ibook
I’ve installed ubuntu on my old ibook yesterday. It’s been quite simple, I must say, I like the live-system / install thing they’ve got.
So, installation went on and, even if slow, eventually completed. This morning, I opened the ibook and tried to boot. Did not work.
I waited several hours and tried to boot. Did not work, either. Ever since I’ve got that ibook, it has this one single defect: sometimes, maybe once every first or second month, the harddisk does not start up. I know that I should have reported this back to Apple right after I noticed it the first time, within the guaranty – but that’s long ago.
Jan told me, he’d have a spare laptop harddisk wondering whether it’d fit into a mac. I guessed that it did, so we decided to risk the operation (in the true sense of the word) and started googling around on how to replace a disk in an ibook.
Right the first result in google did match our needs – a recipe with explanation and pictures:) Opening an ibook basically means finding every screw and searching a suitable screwdriver for it. At the end of the opening progress, we’d have around twenty screws screwed out of the ibook – each of one group of at least four sizes and forms. Our reference website did mention this and proposed to draw pictures with where which screw came from – a hint, we deliberately had disregarded:)
Due to public request: Moving
… I’m writing a new blog entry.
So – what am I doing these days? Moving.
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