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Critical Kernel Options
The Shuttle PC K4500 had a lot of unfamiliar hardware on it when I first bought it. The most critical part being the SATA drivers. 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01) The pertinent option in menuconfig was to enable “Intel ESB, ICH, PIIX3, PIIX4 PATA/SATA Support” in the…
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Trigg County Country Ham Festival
The Trigg County HamFest is almost over, last day will be tomorrow. I paid a visit and took pictures while I was there. WKDZ Radio was there in a big way. Broadcasting live remotes from inside the festival.
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Sitting Duck
Nomen posts a link on HoptownHall to thirty pictures of soldiers in Afghanistan. OODA Ok, men, here is a question to test your knowledge of military vehicles. This question is worth….uh…well, just answer the question. What is the name and function of the vertical member mounted on the hood of the vehicle in photo #5?…
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Hardware haters
I’m not the only one with no luck handling hardware. Even Gentoo developers don’t like working with hardware. Oh, how the hardware hates me. My poor Gentoo development box and primary desktop workstation has been suffering a long string of random lockups lately.[…] Today I cleaned out the machine, getting rid of a fair amount…
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Hardware is Fragile
I’m gonna give up on working with computer hardware. Certainly there are more ways to destroy a circuit board than there are grains of sand in the ocean. After buying my brand new Shuttle PC; I had the bright idea that I was going to install a second hard drive. After several minutes working on…
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lm_sensors for the Shuttle K4500
Moving right along, I installed lm_sensors and put the effort in to correct the readings I was getting. I wrote down the readings from my BIOS and matched up those with identical readings from lm_sensors. Then I stole the equations from the it8716 section of sensors.conf. In the end, I only have one sensor which…
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Booting from USB
The Shuttle PC arrived today! At this moment, I’m doing the Gentoo install. The first issue I had to figure out was the exact sequence to make the machine boot from my usb key. Pressing Escape during post brings up a screen to change the first boot device. LS120 Hard Disk CD-ROM ZIP100 USB-FDD USB-ZIP…
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A New Toy for Me
Today, I ordered a new toy for me. It’s a Shuttle PC model K4500 from Newegg. Actually, I want it to have a dual purpose. It’s primary purpose will be to operate the flatbed scanner when Mom wants to copy something. Right now, she depends on me to operate it for her but I plan…