CHDK on Ixus 100IS

Written by vidarlo on 20100716 in english and hardware and Linux and software and tutorials with no comments.

CHDK is software for some Canon compact cameras, which allows somewhat more than the original firmware. Or rather – it’s a addon for the original firmware. Quite risk free. On Ixus 100/SD780IS (can someone explain why canon insists on seperate names for EU and USA?), it is as of writing only a beta port – […]

Armin Bahrami rir White Wesir inn i solnedgangen…

Written by vidarlo on 20100315 in humor and Norsk and rants and Underholdning with 2 comments.

Nyhetsspeilet gjer det igjen – dei publiserer White Wesir sine hemmelige dokumentervÃ¥s. Og nÃ¥r det blir pÃ¥peikt hevder dei at dei var klar over at det var vÃ¥s heile vegen. Eller, Armin Bahrami pÃ¥stÃ¥r dei var klar over det. Resten av redaksjonen er ikkje like samstemte. Men uansett – det artige her er at mr. […]

Stuck in a alternate reality…

Written by vidarlo on 20100308 in english and rants and software with no comments.

Recently I’ve been working with PLC’s – which is so far from the computers I’m used to. As a GNU/Linux user I’m accustomed to having almost any tool available at the touch of my fingertips, and great amounts of knowledge in a instant. But the PLC world? It’s a closed universe, with no protocol documentation […]

Android og Nexus One

Written by vidarlo on 20100220 in Linux and Norsk and software with one comment.

Android pÃ¥ Nexus One. Fin, slank og lett telefon. Men det er ikkje det som er interessant. Det artige er filosofien bak slik den framstÃ¥r: Gi folk valgmuligheter! En kan bytte ut SMS-appen med to trykk – via Android Market. En kan bytte ut input-metode, og kort sagt: du kan bytte ut dei fleste komponenter […]

They get tinier…

Written by vidarlo on 20100103 in english and hardware with no comments.

One of the things I’m wondering about is what the two golden contacts at the opposite end of the USB is for. It seems strange to place ’em there, but who knows? In total, the active parts of this USB memory device 561mm3, and can contain 16GB of data. If we scale this up, we […]

Vanlig helgefyll?

Written by vidarlo on 20091125 in humor and Norsk and rants with 2 comments.

– Han er 20 Ã¥r, og er i en livsfase der han gjerne drikker alkohol hver helg. De gangene han har vært i kontakt med politiet, er det episoder som mÃ¥ karakteriseres som vanlig helgefyll blant ungdom. Angiveleg er det forsvararen til ein som har mista sertifikatet som kjem med denne pÃ¥standen. I artikkelen kjem […]

OpenSuSE 11.2 – keyboard does not work in X.org

Written by vidarlo on 20091113 in english and hardware and Linux and rants and software with no comments.

OpenSuSE 11.2 is out.As usual, not everything works. This time? In for a real charm: keyboard and mouse does not work in Xorg. Even when removing the config and running SaX2 it does not work. After som help from

Naturlig? Ok…

Written by vidarlo on 20091019 in Norsk and rants with no comments.

NÃ¥ er kull tilbake i skjønnhetsbildet, mest pÃ¥ grunn av den store etterspørselen etter naturlige ingredienser i produkter. […] OgsÃ¥ for sensitive hudtyper er trekull godt egnet, siden det er et rent naturprodukt. Eit fantastisk utsagn frÃ¥ minmote.no. Hestemøkk er eit naturprodukt. Eg veit ikkje om eg vil anbefale nærkontakt av den grunn. Asbest er […]

Spotify – let us tag the music.

Written by vidarlo on 20091001 in english and rants and software with one comment.

Spotify is adding new features all the time. So it’s time to voice my wish for spotify: Let us tag the music! That is the only show stopper for me right now – I can’t sort music in any other way than playlists. I can certainly make playlists, and I can share them, but I […]

Fedora- a strange old friend.

Written by vidarlo on 20090926 in humor and Linux and software with no comments.

Testing fedora, on a netbook was a strange expirience. I started with Linux using Redhat 5.1 Manhattan, in 1998. Fedora should in theory be the descendant of this, and perphaps it is. Yet, it was strange to return. Things have changed, whilst I expected it to be the same. I expected the linuxconf. I expected […]