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Aldi Go Cruise 4300 Hack
Sunday, March 21st, 2010Ozi Explorer is a handy little utility which allows 4WD enthusiasts to load maps onto a GPS device, and to track their locations on various 4WD tracks. One catch is the need to have a Windows OS enabled device. The creators have nicely created a couple of different versions – ranging from PDA / phones [...]
Apport integration
Friday, December 25th, 2009So for the last day or two I have been attempting to add support for bug reports from within the application. In the spirit of open-source, I have searched around and found that Apport seems to be heavily used in Ubuntu, and has clean integration with http://bugs.launchpad.net/, which is my chosen bug tracking system for [...]
If it’s not broke, sometimes it just can’t be broken.
Friday, December 4th, 2009As part of my work, I was required to do a demonstration / instructional on an introduction to Windows 7. My main interest was getting people to understand how Windows 7 has changed from Windows XP (since many people avoided Windows Vista, and now have heard how great Windows 7 is) and also to see [...]
Sharing sound between Pulseaudio instances in Ubuntu Karmic 9.10
Monday, November 9th, 2009The goal of this post is to respond to a query about how to synchronize soundcards across several Ubuntu-based computers together using pulseaudio. I will present two methods, demonstrating the GUI tools that are available, before showing how to come up with the manually-edited files. In theory, at the end of this post you will [...]
The Personality of Computers
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009I was reading an article by John C Dvorak about the difference between Apple & Microsoft – and, critical as he usually is, he raises some good points. He made a single point that I thought relatively brilliant: Where is the Microsoft personality? In summary, he’s referring to how Apple has played the marketing game [...]
Technology & The Economy: Part 2.
Thursday, April 9th, 2009Windows 7. It’s really just around the corner, especially with how time seems to move so much quicker these days. The public ‘Release Candidate’ will be released in May – supposedly. And at this point in time, there’s a lot of speculation around the ‘hype’ of Windows 7′s ability to perform on older hardware. Vista [...]
Technology & The Economy: Part 1.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009The world-wide economy is – interesting – to say the least. We’ve had the credit bubble go *pop*, the subsequent mass hysteria of everyone pulling money out of investments so fast (thanks to the wonder of technology: High speed Internet and Internet banking) causing entire countries to become bankrupt, and generally society starting to panic [...]
Genesis
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009I did something silly. In my current line of work, I do a lot of tech-support, and trouble-shooting/repair of infected and non-working systems. This means having to install programs from my USB Memory Stick on occassion, which means this little stick does get into some dangerous territory. I’m not one that usually has protection (AntiVirus [...]
Lamb in wolves skin
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008Some recent musings with a fellow uni-companion brought to light the fact that many people go out purchasing Apple’s ‘macbook’, with the only intention being to scrap the host os (OS-X), and replace it with windows, usually XP, but some are going to Vista. We were discussing how stupid it was, the main reason being [...]
Not high – just misinformed
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Recently, I saw the following on the cover of a computer magazine, which had the latest release of ‘Ubuntu‘ on it’s monthly DVD: Now, apart from the general ‘hype’ around anything that’s meant to be able to ‘kill’ or be a ‘better’ alternative to Microsoft’s latest operating system, the idea that this particular version/distribution of [...]