Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Kindle DX rocks PDFs

Friday, March 26th, 2010

I recently got a Kindle DX, upgrading from a Kindle 2. My reason for upgrading was twofold. First, I felt that I was having to ‘next page’ too frequently on the kindle 2’s screen. I hoped that the larger screen meant I’d be able to stay in the prose for longer between [...]

Eclipse Galileo on Ubuntu 9.10

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

If you’re running eclipse galileo SR1 on linux along with ubuntu 9.10 (karmic koala), then you MUST launch the eclipse script with GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 set.

How to tell if your CPU is 32 or 64 bit

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

If you’re just interested in whether the currently running system is 32 or 64 bit, then ‘uname -m’ will tell you either i686 or x86_64 depending on whether you have 32 or 64 bit cpu.
Unfortunately if you want to know if the system *could* be 64 bit, you need to check the cpu flags. [...]

Queen of the road

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

And baby

Mobile blogging

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Now that my kind wife has reenabled my mobile internet for me, it’s time to try out mobile wordpress again.

Mobile blogging

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Now that my kind wife has reenabled my mobile internet for me, it’s time to try out mobile wordpress again.

Microsoft Bing Censors Worldwide for China

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Not that we need more convincing that Microsoft is run by a bunch of pragmatic douchebags, but…

Boycott Microsoft Bing
By NICHOLAS KRISTOF
Microsoft apparently doesn’t want to pursue the Google solution of having separate sites – one that produces generally legitimate results (google.com) and another within China that blatantly censors (google.cn). Instead, Bing figured it would have [...]

USB Scale Hacking

Friday, November 20th, 2009

A while ago I purchased some Radio Shack USB scales on clearance for $5 each. I had always intended to get around to futzing with them but haven’t until just last night. Linux made it way too easy.
Plugging it in, I see the device identifies itself as some quasi-proprietary HID device.
Bus 002 Device [...]

Fractal Artwork

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

A completely useless flash app that is at the same time highly engrossing.
I recommend you visit and mouse around.

T-Mobile Removes Support For T-Mobile VPN on G1

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

For most of 2009, I’ve been happily using my T-Mobile VPN service on my new phone, however as of this month T-Mobile has decided to BLOCK my device from their end based solely on the manufacturer of the unit, UNLESS I pay another $25 a month on top of the $20/month I’m already paying for [...]