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Month: March 2013

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Another day, another Google+ app-date. Undecided forever if it's improving or just changing.
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Another day, another Google+ app-date. Undecided forever if it's improving or just changing.

Apparently you can now share full sized digital photos on G+.
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Apparently you can now share full sized digital photos on G+.

With a small detour through GDrive

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Updated to openSUSE 12.3 a few days ago, so far the only casualty is my ethernet port.
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Updated to openSUSE 12.3 a few days ago, so far the only casualty is my ethernet port. There appears to be a nasty regression in the e1000e driver that causes the link to drop every few minutes, causing IRC and other connections to time out. Googling around shows this driver has a number of problems and work-arounds for hardware bugs already built in, but the problem I have appears to be a new one.

So far I tried 

- Interrupt mode forced to PCI

- ASPM off

- Eeprom fix (but not applicable to my hardware)

- using the latest stable driver from sourceforge.net

Dear lazyweb, if anything else comes to mind I could try ...