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If you use Facebook, you can now add Paganarchy Press as your friend by going here - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1241377605. Many people use this site and I understand it's a great and easy way to keep in touch...

Link: http://www.nomadicacademy.net

Hey all - as friends and regular readers might know, I'm a member of the theatre group The Nomadic Academy of Fools.

Using my special geek powers, I've set up the website (using WordPress blogging software) for the Academy, which you can go take a look at here:

http://www.nomadicacademy.net

All 11 members of the Academy will be blogging there, and posting details of our upcoming events, so go take a look!

Hugs from Seani Fool

(ps - my geek powers are available to other groups. Contact me if you need a site set up similar to this one)

Link: http://dilate.choonz.com/

Hello,

if anyone out there tries to install kubuntu linux on their new vaio ar61s, and they choose the default options, their installation will fail upon the first reboot and return either an "error 21" or an "error 2". these basically mean that GRUB cannot find the disk specified during the grub configuration step. this has something to do with RAID on the disks - but it's not real RAID so you have to turn it off for kubuntu to work:

i was battling the box for feckin' ages and came up with this solution:

* go into BIOS by pressing F2 during startup.

* within BIOS, tell it to "SHOW RAID INFORMATION".

* save and exit BIOS. it will restart.

* during restart, a new screen appeared - this is the RAID INFORMATION. when it asks you to during a splash screen, press Control+I which takes you into the RAID and partition info & config screens.

* In that screen, disable RAID on the first disk. it's not real RAID and it's just software trickery! you don't need it.

* so you've done that, now save and exit and reboot - and presto the ERROR 21 has disappeared.

* So has RAID.

* i am posting this from a fully functioning kubuntu vaio ar61s laptop. yay!

* next stop - the motion eye camera and the minjack output. let me know if you got these sorted, and how.

good luck with it.

If this has been helpful, please drop me a comment and I'll be happy to drop in other bits of kubuntu/linux/vaio that I come across...

Sean

UPDATE: FEB 2009

A lot of people find this page through googling LINUX AR61S. Just about everything works fantastically for me - My OCR Scanner, Networking, the camera, speakers...

Alas, I still haven't configured my microphone to work, or bluetooth or the headphone minijack. If you manage to get any of those working then please please please drop instructions to me in the comments below... Thanks!!

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Hello reader!

This is the first blog entry of Sean, the hairy jedi. I'm the creator and maintainer of the PagAnarchy website, a j2ee geek, a sydney indymedia volunteer and involved with a whole array of various projects. Hopefully a number of these projects will get mention on these pages before too long.

Okay, not sure where I'm gonna take this, so I'll sign off for now.

Note to self: remember to talk about: the G8, Sacha, London, drools, unit testing, byron bay, pagan activism and IT consulting...