Stuart Herbert

… then I must say that I’m very happy indeed with the 256Mb model of XFX’s GeForce 5700LE. It works with the latest stable NVidia drivers (which means I’m no longer stuck with the ancient nvidia 4363 driver :), and it even works with X.org composite extension. A little bit of eye candy goes a long way

Reuben and I have spent the last week or so putting together the venue and the plan for Gentoo’s 2005 UK Meeting. Once again we’re going to be holding the event at The University of Salford, moving from the Newton Building over to University House and its conference facilities.

We’re currently putting together the full announcement - including details of how you can get involved. Keep an eye on the Gentoo Weekly News, and our (soon to launch) Gentoo Events page!

Swapped out the dead hardware for the new amd64 components, and the machine booted first time. The only problem I had was that my old kernel didn’t have SATA support enabled. One (very quick) recompile later, and I can see the replacement drive too.

I’m still trying to decide which is nicer … having a nice high-performance amd64 box, or (thanks to a video card upgrade) that I can now use the latest nvidia drivers. Mmm.