Just a quick post as I am excited but unfortunately out and about travelling… Android version 2.2 is finally out for the HTC Desire and installed on my phone! A quick list of what I have found new in this version follows. USB tethering Wireless hotspot tethering App sharing A torch application (wow!) 720p video [...]
As the title no doubt hints at, I’ve just finished upgrading the site to run atop Ubuntu Server 10.04 and WordPress 3. Being that Ubuntu Lucid Lynx v10.04 is the most recent LTS release it made sense to move over to it from Hardy Heron v8.04 LTS. If nothing looks any different, that’s a good [...]
Introduction I’ve been running XBMC with Ubuntu Karmic Koala v9.10 for a while now, but once I got the Intel X-25V 40GB SSD, I wanted to combine the upgrade with a move to Lucid. This post documents the installation process. Although an SSD would already improve boot speed, I wanted to take advantage of all [...]
Like many I have finally converted to running Irssi under Screen, but sometimes connect to the host running it from a Windows machine by using the program PuTTY. Because of this, I would often get funny images appearing in place of pretty common characters. There are three settings which have to be set to take [...]
Synergy has been around for years, but I’ve never had the need or want to make use of what it provides. For the unfamiliar, Synergy is a program which allows you to make use of one computer’s keyboard and mouse to control a completely different computer – as long as they are networked. Scenario I [...]
