the difference that is no difference makes no difference
OK, so I’ve done 5 weeks of spanish lessons here and I have come to the conclusion that learning a foreign language is rather hard. If you’re a very social/chatty person then I think you have a huge advantage at learning languages compared to a more introverted person. Interacting is a big part of developing […]
OK, this is a slight diversion from the usual technical rubbish I spit out. I’m actually in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the moment. I usually reside in Auckland, New Zealand so I’m a long way from home. The reason I’m here is part work, part experiment and part adventure. I’ve been working for some time […]
My Thinkpad T42 is getting quite old now and well used. A week or so back it started having a pinkish tinge to the screen when you turned it on or resumed it. The pink colour eventually disappeared after about 30 seconds and became the usual white. However, last Saturday the backlight decided to fail […]
So I’ve had my Mac Mini for about half a year now. I thought the base 1GB configuration should have been good enough, but lately the Mac has been ‘feeling’ like the slowest machine here. I’ve already mentioned that the Mac Mini is not good for running VMware. And I have a lot of trouble […]
I wanted to set up a special extension in Asterisk that would divert to my mobile. A week or two back I found the code to implement the *72* forward function. ie. you enter *72*<some number>. However I could not get it to work very well. So I just added a line to the inbound […]
Have you tried reading a book on a PC or laptop? Perhaps you’ve downloaded a pdf of a book and you start to read it. Usually I lose interest quite quickly. Reading a book off a brightly lit LCD screen is something that my brain just does not like. So up to now, I’ve happily […]
I’ve had a Linksys SPA3102 for a while now connected up to a single VOIP provider. For the most part it works great. You turn it on and it pretty much always works. I like things that ‘just work’. But part of the reason I bought the SPA is because you can split it into […]
To seriously punish the credit card this year I decided to buy an Irex Iliad … for my other half as a present (yeah right). It’s an ebook reader for the uninformed. It uses this E-ink technology. E-ink displays are unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. The aim of the technology is to look like […]
Powertop is a command line utility to help you to reduce power consumption on linux laptops.The tool is written by a guy from Intel, so it probably only works on intel chipset based laptops. I have a Intel Centrino based Thinkpad T42 so I thought I’d give it a go. If you use linux on […]
One of the features of dwm is that whatever you pipe into stdin ends up in the status bar at the top of the screen. I thought this would be a great way of getting the last message from a jabber chat onto the screen. There aren’t really a lot of examples of how this […]
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