lost thoughts

If only I could remember them.

wacom bamboo on lucid, with dual monitor

I want to get a bamboo pen and touch (3rd edition) working.

webgl in firefox on a t400 (intel gpu) with ubuntu lucid

I have a t400 with the intel graphics chip. How can I enable webgl?

The price of an NDA

My thoughts on signing non-disclosure agreements

publishing plone content to twitter

 

greyscaled fonts for testing on ereaders

Contains the same text in 100%, 80%, 40% and 20% back/grey levels, rendered in Arial, Times New Roman, Fontin and Verdana. Created using openoffice3.2.

rsh on boox m92

getting a remote shell on the m92

pocketbook 903 experience

Notes on the experience in using the pocketbook 903

onyx boox m92 experience

Notes on the experience with the onyx boox m92

Comparison of pocketbook 903 and onyx boox m92

I got a onyx boox m92 testing unit for review. As I own the pocketbook 903, I can finally compare those side by side.

links for pocketbook with menu

Drop into applications. Will go to google.com by default. The menu map is mapped to ESC, so that the menu opens - which then can be navigated using the touchscreen.

progit ebook for the pocketbook 903

A smaller size pdf version of the progit book that fits nicely on the large screen of the pocketbook 903 ereader. Its from http://progit.org/, there is also a link to buy the printed version (which supports the project)

Ebooks and readers

Searching for a new ebook reader

mms on the n900

how to setup the n900 for receiving and sending mms.

disable the accelerometer on the n900

There is a attack that uses the accelerometers to 'sniff' passwords. I would like to disable them.

screen of t400 has hardware flicker

The flicker that can be seen on the laptop screen is some old hardware issue. It shows upon boot, in the bios etc. So def. not a software issue. Lenovo did not manage to fix it yet.

python sql notes

thinks to remember when working with python, mysql and maybe sqlalchemy

kite energy systems

Links and pointers for kite based energy systems

repair /var/lib/dpkg/status

Sometimes I can't use apt-get remove because of some "grep-status: /var/lib/dpkg/status:12345: expected a colon'.

starting ipython from normal python prompt

sometimes I need to start ipython from a normal python prompt, eg. bin/debug in a bfg environment

more ram

I need more ram for the t400