Update 2015-01-05: I was more or less forced to adopt VT, UTF-8, KMS, and DRM2 when I upgraded my laptop from stable/9 to stable/10 in the time between Christmas of 2014 and New Year of 2015. My laptop, a Dell Latitude D531 of mid-2007 design, is equipped with the AMD/ATI Radeon X1270 GPU. What an […]

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FreeBSD’s local_unbound DNS resolver was introduced in head in September 2013, and later in stable/10 when that branch became available. Its configuration out of the box, particularly its treatment of the /etc/resolvconf.conf, assumes the local_unbound resolver is the sole resolver to be used. The reason for this blog entry is that I appreciate being able […]

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Enabling Personal Printer Data Stream (PPDS) on a Lexmark MS510dn is pretty well hidden. None of the first two suggestions by Lexmark worked on this model. (Suggestion 1, suggestion 2.) You need to send the printer a PJL command like this one: Why on earth can’t this option be available in the menus with the […]

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Det er sjelden jeg kommenterer noe som ligner på politikk, men mine ord skal handle om teknikk. IKT-direktøren til NAV uttalte til digi.no at overspenning slo ut reserveløsningen, mandag 5. februar 2014. Dette kan tyde på at både lysnettet og dieselaggregatene var tilkoblet UPS-ene. Det er ikke uvanlig at det er overspenning i lysnettet i noen […]

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After long hours of googling at work and at home, I finally arrived at http://www.excaliburtech.net/archives/192, stating this is the way to disable IPv6 autoconfiguration, say when you’re more keen on using a manually configured IPv6 address: netsh interface ipv6 set interface “Local Area Connection” routerdiscovery=disabled

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Eg jobbar i ein kommune, og ein ting er 100% sikkert: Det er mykje meir trøbbel med store leverandørar enn små. Eg kan ikkje komme på nokon unnatak. Dei små kan tilpasse seg ulike miljø. Dei store krev at miljøet tilpassar seg. Fra http://www.digi.no/926762/vurderer-aa-dumpe-microsoft-office.

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