Archive for December, 2007

Mr. X vs jimmac 1:0

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

Dear lazyweb,
do you have a working xorg.conf for an imac g4 + external VGA xinerama setup?

Yours desperate

OS2008

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

I grabbed the latest build of Nokia’s new firmware and I must say I’m impressed.

A very captivating background greeted me for the initial wizard. The widget theme doesn’t scream “Hey I’m the boring gtk+ you’ve been staring at for the last 7 years!”. And then the interface loads and I can enjoy the dark theme with its lovely monochrome status icons(Nice touch on the brightnes gauge, tig). When applications load, there’s no horrible flicker or repaints. Menus render instantly. Top level menus are in awesome dark grey. All in all the visual quirks have been ironed out and I feel like I’ve just been given a new device. Big props to the maemo developers.

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And thanks for the sane start page for the browser. Now I wonder if the thumb keyboard is broken on purpose to make me want the 810 :)

Czechnology 2.0

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

A long time ago I was asked to define what czechnology meant. I didn’t really give any convincing examples. Here’s a perfect one.

PPC Linux

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

OS X is too much of a hog to keep it running on my ‘lamp’ iMac and I figured the hardware is old enough for even PPC Linux to install painlessly. Sadly we don’t have live CDs for PPC and I haven’t been able to burn a DVD-RW that the imac would read, so I went and grabbed Gutsy. Booted right into the native res, and in less than an hour I had refreshed the life of a dying machine. I am still impressed by ubuntu installation. It’s precisely how it’s supposed to be done for a desktop machine.

Few more years and I’ll even have GL running :)