Nokia N810 and an 8 GB Micro/Mini SDHC Card
After reading about a whole lot of problems people have been having with SanDisk micro->mini SDHC card adapters on the N810, I bought this awesome little Kingston 8GB Micro SDHC Mobility Multi Kit Model MBLY/8GB over the weekend for only $30(!!) and just got it in the mail today. After figuring out how to actually put the thing in (label-side up like normal--it's just a bit of a weird fit), I was pleasantly surprised to find that the N810 promptly displayed a "Memory card available" message and that I could use the card just fine. The 8GB card came pre-formatted as vfat (FAT32) and only reported as having 7.4GB available, which is, I guess, normal (albeit annoying). I reformatted the card on my laptop to ext3 and it came out at 6.8G available. Forget that! Reformatted it as ext2 and it came back up to 7.0GB available (really, guys?? how can you lose a whole GB from what's described on the package???). I'll leave it as ext2 for a while and see if there's any advantages/disadvantages. I was thinking that ext2 would be better for installing KDE packages, etc., but I'm honestly not sure. And I may end up reformatting as vfat/FAT32 just to get my 400 MB back. =:(
Modeline Generation and Xinerama Info
So, I'm trying to think positively about the 3-hour battle I just had with X. I learned 2 new things today, which I didn't really want to learn but yay nonetheless.
OpenSUSE 10.3 > Kubuntu Hardy -> Fedora 9 -> Mandriva 2008.1 -> OpenSUSE 11
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First Woot Shirts!
I know... I'm behind the times. But still, I just got these 2 new woot shirts in the mail today and I'm so happy with them! =:)
KPilot IS ALIVE!
So I spent a couple of hours tonight hacking on KPilot instead of going to bed like a smart little boy (sorry, honey!!! =:( ), and I fixed a couple of nagging problems that've been bugging me for months that I've just not been able to find the time to dig in and investigate. I think that's the problem. At this stage in my life, there simply is no time unless it is forcibly wrenched away from my family or sleep. Blef.