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 …

The future is here. While I have reservations about wide scale surveillance and recording every e-mail I send it seems very sensible to equip the Persons in Blue with personal video recorders. Especially if it reduces the amount of paperwork the Police have to fill in when the could be …

I spent some time pimping my Samsung NC-10 netbook over the weekend. I had been having problems with Firefox slowing down and becoming sluggish and unresponsive. A little digging around later and I unearthed the culprit as being the closed source Flash plugin. Although well behaved Flash applications like the …

I spent most of yesterday (and will spend today) operating in the Windows world. Every time I do this it reminds me of how much I hate it. Having to use IE certainly reminds me that Firefox is a much much better browser. I also miss having a comfortable editor …

Rockbox happily made it through the New Years Eve gathering without frustrating anyone with its occasional rough edges. However I am having problems with .m4a files (unlocked iTunes files) causing Rockbox to throw a strop. Unfortunately debugging is made harder by the inability to attach the very much copyrighted tracks …