I’ve been meaning to write up the paint job I gave my laptop for a while now but just have never got a round to it. The idea was to dress up the old girl and hopefully distract some people from how shamefully old it is (PIII 1ghz). Its a linux only laptop so the obvious choice was […]
OSS comes to life and its cute!
I don’t normally post things like this, let alone on my ‘technical’ blog, but its kinda relevant. Its possibly the cutest thing you will ever actually see thats geek related: Yes, that’s right its a baby firefox. Someone grab a little globe and wrap this thing around it please.
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Beep’s not good
Its been coming for a while but today I decided that I’d upgrade the memory in the trusty MacMini. The 512mb it had in it was fine but open a few applications, or start playing Wow, and it really starts to chug. Put your ear up to it (I love how quiet the little thing is!) and very […]
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Crappy crap, crap crap.
Today, whilst in the Christchurch International airport, I needed to do what I thought was a fairly standard kind of task. Access the internet. Basically every international airport I’ve ever been to (which granted hasn’t been that many) has had wifi available, sure they know how to charge for it, but in this case I didn’t really mind. […]
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SCUMM
Following up on last nights showing of the DS with linux… I’d like to show the following: Yes, that’s right, its Day the the Tentacle on the DS. Well actually (and obviously) its SCUMM VM running on the DS 🙂 The Ds is bascially the perfect mobile SCUMM platform, its great! Its got the touch screen which gives […]
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Mobile linux
Well seeing as how I’m at lca 2006, aaaand I’ve recently purchased a Nintendo DS, I thought it only fitting thaty I combined the two. The result…? I hideous mutation that I finally got running this afternoon. Here’s the obligatory blurry photo: It wasn’t the easiest thing to do, especially considering the limited hardware I had to work […]
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Linus(x) on the desktop
Here’s an interesting conversation that Linus decided to dip his toes in. Whilst he raises some good points I think that, like on other occasions, his comments are based heavily around his own preferences and maybe do not reflect a wider audience. Some of Jeff’s responses are very well thought out and explain with a little more clarity […]
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SIMD: Altivec & SSE
Well I’ve finally finished the write-up for my Altivec vs SSE testing. Believe it or not its quite an interesting read (Even if I do say so myself) and if you’ve ever wondered about what exactly SIMD is then its not a bad place to start. The report is available here
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GRUB settings for dual boot
This is purely for my own personal reference as its a bugger of a thing to find a solution to when you have the problem. The issue I had was with GRUB dual booting linux + windows (+OSX), which should never be difficult. The problem came about apparently because linux is on the primary drive while Windows the […]
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IM Tales
As much as it pains me to admit this so unequivocally, the Frog was right. I’m referring to the MacOS multi protocol messenger, AdiumX. This product is simply amazing. Everything is infintely customisable and tweaking it into the perfect, unobtrusive IM client that still provides the necesary notifications is not only possible, its made to look gorgeous at […]
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