I’ve recently tested Xbian and Raspbmc. Xbian seems to be based of raspbmc, with a few changes, for example a quite sleek setup plugin. Raspbmc, in turn, are based on Debian, the well known Linux-distro, with apt and all the snacks. Both are painless to setup, and works quite fine for playing media files. However, […]
Xbian vs. Raspbmc
The M570 Trackball
The Logitech M570 trackball is good. If I use a normal mouse, I’ll get a stiff shoulder after a couple of days. What I can use is an clitoris or trackball. My x220 has a clitoris, which I don’t like in games. The trackball, however, works fine in openTTD. I’ve used various trackballs before, but […]
Cryptocurrencies?
Ok, so we have a couple of cryptocurrencies out there, bitcoin, litecoin and so on. I had a look, trying to buy some litecoins, but was utterly turned away by the hoops I have to jump…: First transfer money in EUR/USD/RUR or other national valuates. Buy the coins. Send them. In addition, the credit card […]
chdk – again.
Once again, I’ve gotten myself a Canon compact camera that can run CHDK. Apart from some minor details, it works great. One of the stupid things is that the lens does not come out automagically when turning on camera with CHDK activated. I need to do a half press of the shutter first… OK, I […]
Nordmann for Al Qaeda?
NRK skriv at ein nordmann er trent av Al Qaeda. Der kan ein lese følgande gullkorn: Den 33-Ã¥rige etnisk norske mannen som har konvertert til islam, har plettfritt rulleblad, norsk utseende og regnes som en stor potensiell fare dersom han er trent, operativ og klar til Ã¥ begÃ¥ terrorhandlinger mot et vestlig mÃ¥l, som for […]
Quick and dirty download proxy
fget is a small, quick and dirty download proxy in php and python, to be used on a webserver to allow it to download files to the webserver, and allow access to them. Written for personal use when travelling, and on various bad links. License? Buy me a beer next time you see me if […]
Bypassing liquid ban with help from KLM
I recently flew with KLM from Singapore to Amsterdam. They have this tradition of giving you small houses filled with jenever. Thats just fine, but the problem is that they are filled with liquid, and above 100ml. So you have to have them in a sealed bag through security if you have a connecting flight. […]
Android + webdav
Being a geek, the opportunity to upload pictures straight from my cell phone (Android) to the web is a nice feature. I could of course use Dropbox or a similar solution, but that is boring, and I don’t get to decide the URL… So welcome WebDAV. Finding a good webdav client for Android took me […]
Er postordrebestilling fra elkjøp ekstraservice?
Ja, meiner dinside.no: Selvfølgelig skal du betale mer for Ã¥ fÃ¥ tilsendt produktene til din egen postkasse eller nærmeste postkontor, i stedet for Ã¥ hente det selv i varehus. Det er en ekstraservice det er rett og rimelig Ã¥ betale for. Er det sjølvfølge at det er ekstraservice? Nei. For Elkjøp sparer eit par kostnader. […]
I will not try OpenSuSE 11.3 for the next few weeks.
OpenSuSE 11.3 is out. This will be the first release in quite a few years that I won’t try at the day of release. I’ve been using OpenSuSE since Pre-Novell (9.0 I believe), and have usually upgraded as soon as possible. But why not this time? Because the last three times I tried to upgrade, […]