July 2010
1 post
8 tags
Ubuntu, HTPC
So It’s taken a while to get my Aspire Revo set up as a home theatre pc. The machine came with the rather lackluster “Linpus Linux” preinstalled. It didn’t support the onboard wifi or hdmi sound which seems downright sinful for a preinstalled OS. I tried to install windows 7 from a USB hard drive but didn’t have much luck. A dd’ed image didn’t boot and...
Jul 10th
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May 2010
5 posts
May 14th
4 tags
May 14th
3 tags
May 13th
4 tags
May 13th
1 tag
Steam for Mac on an external drive
Just installed Steam for Mac. Had to do a bit of messing around to get it to use my external drive as a data store… here’s the steps I took: Moved the library steam created from ~/Library/Application Support/Steam to /Volumes/external/Games/Steam Library. Moved the Steam Content folder from ~/Documents/Steam Content/ to /Volumes/external/Games/Steam Content Open Terminal.app and...
May 13th
April 2008
1 post
Apr 23rd