First I tried the wm8650 that I broke. Literally broke, as I just dropped it from about half a meter and the touch screen shattered. Then I got myself a “Superpad III” clone which died no later than a day after I got it. Know I’m typing on my brand new ZT-280 I received today.… Read More Chinese tablets recapped
I have a Motorola vip1910-9 set-top box provided by my ISP. It’s a simple Linux based STB and I’m quite satisfied with it’s capabilities. Unfortunately I could not hook it up to my TV with a standard HDMI cable only through scart. After spending hours on the net looking for a solution I came over… Read More Motorola vip1910-9 HDMI
Last Saturday I stumbled upon the charger of the MID7 in the dark, managing to drop it and break the glass of the touch screen. Since the cheap MID7 proved it has a place in the household, but shown it’s weaknesses I decided to order another one. This time I go for a more expensive… Read More Broke the Mid7, ordered a new tablet
I’ve ordered a very cheap tablet from China, for about $85 including shipping. I did this, so I could see if anything arrives from there at all, and also to see if it arrives at all. I was not surprised to receive it in three weeks time, even though it had 30 working days to… Read More MID v7 tablet from China
This site has always had a quote from the BOFH excuse calendar on the header. This was accomplished by using the wp_bofh plugin by Bernd Essl, that was written sometime ago back in 2007. This, while working well for it’s age, however is no longer compatible with the new widget based themes of WordPress. I… Read More Bastard Operator from Hell excuse calendar widget for WordPress
I’ve been using boxee for some time for my home media. As I’ve recently upgraded my box to the pre-release version of Ubuntu (Natty Narval Alpha 2 at the time of writing) I found that the package provided by boxee is both outdated and references packages outdated in the new version of Ubuntu (libxmlrpc-c3 is… Read More Building streamlined boxee for Ubuntu Natty
Reading the post about useful regular expressions, remembered what my favourite solution is to one of the questions of the test we give to junior Java developers. The task is to write a method that takes a string as a parameter and returns the acronym of the string in uppercase made up of the first… Read More Regexp fun
As I see there is a solid movement to reform the user interfaces that are in use in our computers. After all the menu bars with a start menu are on the mainstream desktops since the win95/OS2 era. And the programs can be started using icons on the desktop and the start menu. For the… Read More New trends in Linux desktop UIs
I read several feeds daily, like The Daily WTF or friend’s blogs. Since I always have both Thunderbird and Firefox running on my computer, I don’t want a standalone RSS reader application, like Liferea hog my memory. I don’t want to keep a Google page always open to use the Reader either. I took some… Read More Brief – a feed reading extension for Firefox
Insightful post about issues in scheduling. Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule.