Category: Tech
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RIP Strats
Strats was a quick project I’d built upon the Strava API. I used Strats after nearly every single bike ride as a way of gauging my progress and seeing who else had tried some of the same hills and how they’d got on with them. Strats was essentially a way of displaying the friend leaderboard for all of […]
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The Soul of a New Machine
I’ve just finished reading The Soul of a New Machine by Tracey Kidder. It’s a brilliantly written non-fiction account of creating a new computer in the late 70s under massive time constraints. It describes the characters involved, their leadership styles and creative processes, and has a healthy but very readable dose of technology. Lots of it really […]
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Raspberry pi audio
If you are trying to play audio on your raspberry pi over hdmi and it is not working then you need to ensure that the raspberry pi is driving your tv or monitor in hdmi mode and not dvi mode. To do this type /opt/vc/bin/tvservice -s If it’s running HDMI it will print something like […]
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Reserving IP addresses with buggy Netgear firmware
My netgear DGN2000 router has an annoying bug where the IP address reservation refuses to reserve addresses for devices with MAC addresses that don’t begin with 00. This happens when you: Log onto your router at http://192.168.0.1/ Click LAN Setup Click Add at the bottom of the central frame Click on the device you wish to […]
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Kindle statistics
Mildly frustrated to learn that I’m generating all kinds of interesting data while using my kindle, such as how long I’ve spent reading a book, how many times I’ve read the book and so forth and yet none of it is (easily) directly accessible to me, or exposed by Amazon. It is possible to get […]
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Blogging with Octopress
I’ve switched to using Octopress rather than WordPress to run my blog. I have ran wordpress since 2003, before it was forked from B2 cafelog, I’ve decided to switch as I’m currently patching security problems in my blog software more often than writing blog posts, this is probably more indicative of my blog tempo rather than anything […]
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So long and thanks for all the fish
I’ve been an Ubuntu member since 2006 and was actively involved for a year before that. In years gone by I’ve enjoyed spending time with the bugsquad, the doc team, #ubuntu support and a couple of small packaging fixes. Despite my best intentions, I’ve not managed to stay involved since my last renewal, my interests […]
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Kindle
It was my birthday on Monday, and on Friday I finally received my present, Sara, Lemon and my parents had bought me, a Kindle 3G. I’ve been using it for a few hours (finished reading Bram Stokers’ Dracula this morning) and I’m pretty impressed. I’ve not had or even played with an ebook reader before. […]
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Then and now
Following the meme currently running on Planet Ubuntu here is one of my first linux desktops (the oldest screenshot I have). The install was set-up in 2002 I think. Mandrake 8.2 using the fluxbox window manager. It didn’t get used an awful lot as I could never get my ISDN modem working. Today I run a close […]
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First impressions of gnome-shell
GNOME Shell is the proposed interface for Gnome 3, it replaces the window manager, the panels at the top and bottom of the screen and everything that sits on them. It’s in the repositories for Karmic, install gnome-shell and then run gnome-shell –replace to give it a try. You should note that it’s still under heavy development and […]
Dean Sas 