Posted on Mon 02 March 2009 in geek • Tagged with development, xorg
You may recall the adventures of playing with the bleeding edge of Xorg. Well I've given up, I just don't have enough time for tinkering with my main machines display. I managed to get a locally built Xserver after a fashion but I keep hitting various brick walls. I've basically …
Posted on Thu 26 February 2009 in geek
LittleBigPlanet continues to be a source of wonderment for me. Today I did a search for "calculator" to find the apparently famous LittleBigCalculator only to find there were many implementations. The calculator is fairly simple in that it can only add and subtract numbers between 0 and 99 but it …
Posted on Tue 17 February 2009 in geek
After my fun playing with the 3D desktop bling on my Netbook I finally took the plunge on my main desktop machine. This was after all the reason I had specced it with hardware capable of doing 3D with open drivers. In the beginning it worked well enough but it …
Posted on Mon 09 February 2009 in geek
I've long held that Wikipedia provides a "good enough" source of facts for a lot of information. Sure I wouldn't base my moon landing equations on equations copied from Wikipedia's page on celestial navigation. Not at least until I'd verified the cited facts with "reputable" sites. The trouble with checking …
Posted on Sat 07 February 2009 in geek
I have the usefulness of Open Street Map before. Go and have a look at their coverage of your area compared to Google maps. If you think it was worth donating to Wikimedia's recent £6 million fund drive then space a thought for the hardware needed for Open Street …