Qian and Matt conspired to get me a Wii for my birthday, and I’m having tons of fun with it. By far the best of the Wii sports is boxing. The minimum amount of movement required is pretty high, and it demands a considerable amount of skill and quick thinking. And it makes my arms […]
Nikon’s new D3 camera has a full frame sensor! Their marketing data calls it “FX” format. Whatever. Does this mean that 1.5x crop sensors are on the way out? They made all that noise about how DX is big enough and that it makes it easier to build new lenses. Was that all FUD? Does […]
If you’re like me, you’re stuck with Outlook at work because your company runs an Exchange server. Sure Exchange has IMAP and POP support, but it’s never quite the same as using outlook. You’ve mostly tamed Outlook, except for one small problem. All your programmer colleagues insist on using plain-text messages. And when you use […]
imac The new iMac looks kinda ugly to me. What’s with the black border around the screen? is that a beard? And the keyboard looks bugly, though bluetooth 2.0 is nice, I think. Who knows if it actually works better. outlook quoting Tried this outlook QuoteFix macro thing but it doesn’t quite work. Now I’m […]
A small list of little programs I need to write: A better task switcher for windows XP (and maybe vista, though that seems a lot harder). It will highlight the frame of the window you’re about to switch to, just like metacity does. A better compose window for outlook. One that has a real text […]
Despite starting an Ubuntu tips site, I’ve been trying out using windows at work. The main reason? Fonts. Yes, fonts can look pretty or ugly, but there is one major advantage that Windows has with regards to fonts. That is: small fonts look good. At work, the more information I can keep on my screen […]
After days of price research, I finally gave in and purchased a D-link DNS 323 2-bay home NAS appliance from Newegg, along with a couple 500GB Samsung drives, for a total of $415 or so (just over 80 cents per gig in a RAID 1 configuration). Yeah that’s a bit expensive compared to just sticking […]
Well, it looks like my little tutorial on setting up WS 5.5.3 on Feisty was pretty popular. Unfortunately, (or fortunately perhaps, I don’t know) I’ve upgraded my Workstation to an RC release of WS6. The reason? Printing. There’s not special install trick here. Once WS6 is released, you should be able to just use the […]
Still no hard drive protection, but everything else seems pretty good. Suspend and resume works, and joining wi-fi networks seems reliable as well. I’ve got pretty much the best font settings I can hope for with this amount of work. One thing I noticed was that because the X60’s screen doesn’t have the greatest viewing […]
I upgraded to the new Feisty kernel, 20-14, and lo and behold, my accelerometer readout started working. I can now run hdaps-pivot to get values as well as hdaps-gl to see a rotating GL rendring of my laptop. That’s cool. Wait, no it’s not. It turns out, although now it can read out values from […]