Month: September 2011

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DIY paper or card 3D Tardis printable

I have been a bit sick with the flu this week which leaves me unable to do much other than play guitar and boring things on the PC

So i spent some time with a box template, gimp and some images of a tardis to make a printable 3D tardis. Needs no glue (unless you want it) but a craft knife for slots may be required. Printable on paper, but probably better done on thin card.
I have a blank one which you can colour yourself (good if you have kids or only black and white printer)

And a colour one of course which comes with the prettyness of the full monty

You can right click and save them from these links
Black and white one at http://www.velofille.com/uploads/Printable-tardis-3d.png
colour one at http://www.velofille.com/uploads/Printable-tardis-3d-color.png

And my sick song i wrote/recorded

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Dell Studio 17″ 1749 – Ubuntu linux suspend and hibernate problems

I have a really awesome Dell studio 17″ laptop. It works brilliantly with Ubuntu since the day i got it, however during an upgrade at sometime, it suddenly stopped suspending and hibernating.

This was annoying more than anything, but still fine. I hunted for months high and low for an answer, and could find nothing in any log files. I saw many complaints and bugfixes of which non seemed to work.

The machine suspended fine, it just never came back from that. It sat with a blank screen until i power cycled it to get it going.

So, i had 4 days off work, and decided to get to the bottom of this silly bug. I could only assume that it was something preventing it from resuming, either kernel, module, or software.

Again, nothing in the logs anywhere. Finally i stumbled over this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/748994

In the comments the following fix worked brilliantly for me.

Steps:

1. Create new file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-suspend.conf with the following two lines:

blacklist firewire_core
blacklist firewire_ohci

2. Run: sudo update-initramfs -u

3. Reboot and check that the modules were not loaded by running: lsmod | grep firewire

4. Suspend the machine and bring it back up.

5. Hibernate the machine and bring it back up.

Both suspend and hibernate work now.