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-Jeff

Hello, all. My name's Jeff. I grew up an hour north of New Orleans in the US, hence the "ToxicGumbo" moniker (which is what news anchors called the soupy floods brought about by hurricane Katrina). As of summer '13 I moved to Kansas and there's not much to do out here. So... I came across ...

For the record, I'd been wondering how to partially configure X11 for quite a long time, and never bothered to research it. If by "partially" you mean, as it looks, to add the minimum Nvidia support to a default xorg.conf file, you can run nvidia-xconfig (part of the nvidia-current packag...

I never did any SMD soldering in my live,i never soldered a circuit in my live so thats kinda hard for me i think A basic primer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NN7UGWYmBY There's always the toaster oven technique: http://www.openhardware.net/Misc_Stuff/ToasterSMD/ I bought an Aoyue 968 soldering ...

What was the original goal of diy-efi.org if it's owned by BG Soflex, a commercial company? Was it mostly to bring bright people together to test, extend, and offer bug fixes for the MS code & hardware or did it only eventually become a commercial haven (or get swallowed by those with commercial...

I understand a little bit about the bad blood, but the whole picture's a little fuzzy. The diyefi history page reads impartially from what I can determine, yet it looks like the moment MS took a wrong turn (my words) is when a lot of peoples' efforts became a marketable item and money was to be made...

We clearly need a cut off for the guesses too. Too soon will mean not a very big pool. Too late will mean later entries have an advantage. Since it can swing vastly depending on how the documentation continues to evolve (which can alter the demographic depending on how much handholding is written i...