Archive for April, 2007

Manual modesetting for xf86-video-intel

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

The new x86-video-intel-2.0.0 driver (known in Gentoo as xf86-video-i810-2.0.0) does automatic modesetting: instead of relying on the video BIOS for a list of resolutions your laptop’s screen supports (which is always the wrong list on modern machines), the new driver reads the information directly from the monitor using DDC over i2c. Which is in theory […]

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Aiding and abetting terrorism

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

According to ABC, the CIA and Dick Cheney have been secretly supporting Jundullah (”Soldiers of God”), a Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist organization that claims to have killed hundreds of people in Eastern Iran over the past few years. For example, they blew up an army bus on February 14. According to ABC, America has been providing […]

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