School of hard Knoppix
August 29, 2005Definately the coolest thing that I have been doing lately technology wise is something that is also very useful. Amazingly its also a fantastically good use for linux and in particular the super- use anywhere flavour called Knoppix!
For those that dont know: Knoppix is a linux operating system that is compressed onto one cd and [...]
Run by vampires?
August 26, 2005So I donated blood the other day yeah. I had been meaning to do it for ages. It was a lot more enjoyable than I expected dispite forgetting which end of pirie street it was on and in turn giving my blood reciever some bonus endorphins- of which my officer woman assured me wouldnt last [...]
How to: Log WIFI access points with your PDA
August 25, 2005You need:
IPAQ (2210)
Wififofum
Wifi card (CF)
Bluetooth GPS reciever (optional)
Excel (optional)
Oziexplorer (optional)
maps of city (optional)
First get your wifi card working with your pda, you will know its working right when you can access networks from your system settings rather than with an external program. I had better results with the default prism1 driver than the driver that [...]
Wardriving: A case of boring
August 24, 2005I think people with unsecured wireless networks are actually fairly safe. Theres millions around- in fact I have over 300 from around my suburbs mapped out on a street directory like map. By just clicking on one it tells me its encryption settings and connection type. The thing is though- who really can be bothered [...]
Mitsubishi 380
I saw the new Mitsubishi 380 today, still 2 or 3 weeks before its release date. It was mostly covered up but you could tell. I was too slow to whip my phone out for a candid so that makes this missed blogaboutable photo oportunity #9473.
Whats with the name “380″ though. Sure, whatever name they [...]
Dropped the ball
August 18, 2005On most days I check a few sites for webcomics, on opposite days I check all of the blogs in my bookmarks for new posts. Most people have been doing pretty well except for one person.
http://jenneth.info
A bit of background on this site- Jenneth the author of the blog has an affliction to gadgets, similar [...]
Don’t Make Me Cut You!
August 9, 2005Its thin, its stylish (aparently) but it does not toast bread.
what is it?
Its my new phone, my Motorola Razr v3.
First things first, let me get it straight that I didn’t actually choose this phone (I would have probably got a k750i so Ill swap if anyone wants to). I didn’t even see it coming. Dad [...]
Open Source Challenge Results
August 8, 2005Well I did it. One week. Fully Open source programs…
Almost. I do admit that I used Wine (a windows emulator) to run MSN Messenger 7 because I just had to play the GF in solitaire showdown. I don’t think it detriments the achievement that much thought because Wine is open source and also took me [...]
Open Source Challenge Day #something
August 6, 2005One thing that I have always hated about many of the programs that have been released under open source is that the interfaces are either…
Ugly and complicated with bland grey uber textures and poorly compressed gifs or super highly developed GUIs that lack functionality but look amazing.
Thankfully there is a path that is beginning to [...]
100th Post
August 5, 2005Argh, yuck
I cant believe that I have spewed out 100x of this drivel that people actually come to this site and read. Yeah I’m talking to you.
Im going to sit at home and have a strong burbon to comiserate this one. I think this means that now im an actual blogger. Gah, the horror.
Now to [...]
I Found Cake
August 4, 2005Today I found cake at my bus stop. A one person sized fully enclosed and sealed slice of mudcake. It looked good but I didnt have the balls to taste it let alone eat it. I dont know what kind of sick terrorist would put a poison cake at stop 14 on Gillies Rd but… [...]
Open Source Challenge Day #1
August 2, 2005Yesterday was the first day of the open source challenge. I used entirely open source programs except for one which I couldn’t resist which was MSN Messenger 7.0 which is free anyway. Unfortunately I have had problems getting it running under wine stabily so its usage was limited to just a few games of solitaire [...]
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